The power of broadcasting

saw at AC’s site a weblog entry about konspire 2b
Within 5 minutes a working channel. Looks similar to Peercast
(backend wise).

konspire2b is a channel-based system. Announcements for files are made on various channels, and your node will respond to an announcement on a channel only if you have previously set it to be subscribed on that channel.

This application needs to be tested further. This has great potential.
just subscribe to a channel and receive the files automatically.
Awesome!

Punkey wrote also about it

Waste is Waste

via: hack the planet http://wmf.editthispage.com/

“I looked at the WASTE design document and as I suspected the protocol is a piece of junk. The gnutellaism of broadcasting all requests just makes no sense. Since I’ve already gotten some pushback, let me give a specific example: when you use WASTE to send an IM to another person, under the hood that IM goes to everyone in the group. This is not acceptable behavior for IM software.

BTW, here’s a theory I haven’t seen in any of the WASTE coverage: WASTE is a clone of Microsoft’s threedegrees.”

Thanks Diederik.