By taking the lead from these existing examples, it should be possible to create a society of Web services where components collaborate with each other to achieve their own individual goals. You can easily imagine a networked marketplace where web services rent themselves out to the highest bidder. MojoNation is an open source project that takes exactly that approach. For example, imagine a P2P version of eBay where consumers install a simple auction Web service onto their home computer or smart phone. Once you ve told your auction service what you want to sell and what you want to buy, it contacts other auction services around the world to hook you up with appropriate buyers and sellers.
Transactions occur directly between consumer devices, and no servers are required.
An even zanier idea is a P2P cellular network, which uses other intermediate consumer s phones instead of base stations. When you make a call, the call routes itself via neighboring cell phones to reach its final destination. I think that the power and simplicity of Web services will accelerate innovation in the world of distribute computing. For the rest of this series, I aim to educate, entertain and promote discussion between developers in this area. Security and transactions.