Events Press Mail List Sponsors Space is Limited. The explosion in popularity of P2P tools for communication and file sharing points to a breakdown in the functionality of the Web. This talk explores the parallels between P2P and the early days of the Web, and describes how the Web can take advantage of the new perspectives given by P2P applications to realize its full potential.
Web peering is an immediately useful response to idiosyncratic, binary file-sharing protocols.
InterWiki Ward Cunningham , Cunningham and Cunningham Wiki is radically simple. A few hundred lines of cgi script combined with the emergent behavior of the internet community has produced results which continue to delight and amaze. But simple replication of the site often leads to disappointment. In this talk Ward Cunningham explores both the delights and challenges of growing large wiki. He then shows how autonomous exchanges between wiki sites can solve nagging problems in monolithic implementations and create a new medium that will be a lot of fun for everyone.