Could 'Peernet' be separate from today's internet infrastructure? - P2P Foundation2024-03-29T12:59:42Zhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/could-peernet-be-separate-from?id=2003008%3ATopic%3A1067&feed=yes&xn_auth=noKim Dotcom to use Blockchain…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2015-11-01:2003008:Comment:582662015-11-01T17:22:31.011ZDante-Gabryell Monsonhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/DanteGabryellMonson
<p><strong>Kim Dotcom to use Blockchain & Smartphones to Build a Decentralized Internet</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://cointelegraph.com/news/115514/kim-dotcom-to-use-blockchain-smartphones-to-build-a-decentralized-internet" target="_blank">http://cointelegraph.com/news/115514/kim-dotcom-to-use-blockchain-smartphones-to-build-a-decentralized-internet…</a></p>
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<p><strong>Kim Dotcom to use Blockchain & Smartphones to Build a Decentralized Internet</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://cointelegraph.com/news/115514/kim-dotcom-to-use-blockchain-smartphones-to-build-a-decentralized-internet" target="_blank">http://cointelegraph.com/news/115514/kim-dotcom-to-use-blockchain-smartphones-to-build-a-decentralized-internet</a></p>
<p><a href="http://cointelegraph.com/news/113343/what-would-kim-dotcoms-meganet-look-like-op-ed" target="_blank">http://cointelegraph.com/news/113343/what-would-kim-dotcoms-meganet-look-like-op-ed</a><br/><br/>"If you have 100 million smartphones that have the MegaNet app installed, we'll have more online storage capacity, bandwidth and calculating power than the top 10 largest websites in the world combined," Dotcom claims. "<br/><br/>Dotcom says it will use a faster version of <a href="http://cointelegraph.com/news/115453/worlds-first-school-to-issue-academic-certificates-via-bitcoin-blockchain">blockchain technology</a> to exchange data globally. There will be no IP addresses within MegaNet, like the current Internet IpV4 protocol uses for enhanced user security.</p> AmbientTalk - Programming Lan…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2015-01-21:2003008:Comment:560982015-01-21T16:32:51.635ZDante-Gabryell Monsonhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/DanteGabryellMonson
<h2 class="hP" id=":3z">AmbientTalk - Programming Language :<br></br>targeted at writing programs deployed in mobile ad hoc networks</h2>
<p><br></br><br></br><a href="https://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/</a><br></br><br></br><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/" target="_blank">http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/…</a><br></br><br></br></p>
<h2 id=":3z" class="hP">AmbientTalk - Programming Language :<br/>targeted at writing programs deployed in mobile ad hoc networks</h2>
<p><br/><br/><a href="https://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/" target="_blank">https://code.google.com/p/ambienttalk/</a><br/><br/><a href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/" target="_blank">http://soft.vub.ac.be/amop/</a><br/><br/><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmbientTalk" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmbientTalk</a><br/><br/></p>
<p><b>AmbientTalk</b> is an experimental <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_oriented_programming" title="Object oriented programming">object-oriented</a> distributed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language" title="Programming language">programming language</a> developed at the Programming Technology Laboratory at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit_Brussel" title="Vrije Universiteit Brussel">Vrije Universiteit Brussel</a>, Belgium. The language is primarily targeted at writing programs deployed in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_ad_hoc_networks" title="Mobile ad hoc networks">mobile ad hoc networks</a>.</p>
<p>AmbientTalk is meant to serve as an <i>experimentation platform</i> to experiment with new language features or programming abstractions to facilitate the construction of software that has to run in highly volatile networks exhibiting intermittent connectivity and little infrastructure.<sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmbientTalk#cite_note-1"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup></p>
<p>The language's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_%28computer_science%29" title="Concurrency (computer science)">concurrency</a> features, which include support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises" title="Futures and promises">futures</a> and event-loop concurrency, are founded on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model" title="Actor model">actor model</a> and have been largely influenced by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_programming_language" title="E programming language">E programming language</a>. The language's object-oriented features find their influence in languages like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk" title="Smalltalk">Smalltalk</a> (i.e. block closures, keyworded messages) and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_%28programming_language%29" title="Self (programming language)">Self</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming" title="Prototype-based programming">prototype-based programming</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trait_%28computer_programming%29" title="Trait (computer programming)">traits</a>, delegation).</p> Decentralized internet ... it…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-11-13:2003008:Comment:559742014-11-13T21:12:47.101ZSepp Hasslbergerhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/Sepp
<p>Decentralized internet ... it seems it's actually happening.</p>
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<p>Here's a short video</p>
<p><br/><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEe3d0U-aeE&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEe3d0U-aeE&feature=youtu.be</a></p>
<p>Decentralized internet ... it seems it's actually happening.</p>
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<p>Here's a short video</p>
<p><br/><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEe3d0U-aeE&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEe3d0U-aeE&feature=youtu.be</a></p> Recent development:
The nex…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-10-01:2003008:Comment:552192014-10-01T14:49:04.921ZSepp Hasslbergerhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/Sepp
<p>Recent development: </p>
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<p>The next generation mobile phone tech protocols will be upgraded to allow direct communication of cell phones with each other, using the principal radio to connect to other phones just like today it connects to the next tower. This will increase the range of direct communication to 500 meters or more...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530996/future-smartphones-wont-need-cell-towers-to-connect/" target="_blank">Future Smartphones Won’t…</a></p>
<p>Recent development: </p>
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<p>The next generation mobile phone tech protocols will be upgraded to allow direct communication of cell phones with each other, using the principal radio to connect to other phones just like today it connects to the next tower. This will increase the range of direct communication to 500 meters or more...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530996/future-smartphones-wont-need-cell-towers-to-connect/" target="_blank">Future Smartphones Won’t Need Cell Towers to Connect</a></p> Now it seems WIFI is getting…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-09-15:2003008:Comment:546052014-09-15T12:57:25.547ZSepp Hasslbergerhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/Sepp
<p>Now it seems WIFI is getting married with the UHF TV frequencies that are no longer in use, and with this, the range of WIFI is extended tremendously, while quality and speed of transmission are kept high by using multi antenna (MIMO) transmission systems. Rice University is doing research on this...…<br></br><br></br></p>
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<p>Now it seems WIFI is getting married with the UHF TV frequencies that are no longer in use, and with this, the range of WIFI is extended tremendously, while quality and speed of transmission are kept high by using multi antenna (MIMO) transmission systems. Rice University is doing research on this...<br/><br/></p>
<p><a href="http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/rice-university-claims-multiuser-mimo-breakthrough-tv-white-space/2014-09-10" target="_blank">http://www.fiercewireless.com/tech/story/rice-university-claims-multiuser-mimo-breakthrough-tv-white-space/2014-09-10</a></p>
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<p><span><em>"The holy grail of wireless communications is to go both fast and far,"</em> said lead researcher Edward Knightly, professor and chair of Rice's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. <em>"UHF can travel far, but it hasn't had the high capacity of Wi-Fi. This [new approach] provides the best of both worlds,"</em> he said.</span></p> LTE in unlicensed spectrum po…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-08-17:2003008:Comment:539992014-08-17T17:25:01.499ZDante-Gabryell Monsonhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/DanteGabryellMonson
<p>LTE in unlicensed spectrum potentials ?<br/><br/><a href="http://www.3gpp.org/news-events/3gpp-news/1603-lte_in_unlicensed" target="_blank">http://www.3gpp.org/news-events/3gpp-news/1603-lte_in_unlicensed</a></p>
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<p>" <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Early focus to be on unlicensed operation in 5 GHz. However, the core technology should be as frequency agnostic as possible.</span> "</p>
<p>LTE in unlicensed spectrum potentials ?<br/><br/><a href="http://www.3gpp.org/news-events/3gpp-news/1603-lte_in_unlicensed" target="_blank">http://www.3gpp.org/news-events/3gpp-news/1603-lte_in_unlicensed</a></p>
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<p>" <span style="font-size: 10pt;">Early focus to be on unlicensed operation in 5 GHz. However, the core technology should be as frequency agnostic as possible.</span> "</p> https://ltedirect.qualcomm.co…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-08-17:2003008:Comment:545692014-08-17T15:45:52.594ZDante-Gabryell Monsonhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/DanteGabryellMonson
<p><a href="https://ltedirect.qualcomm.com/" target="_blank">https://ltedirect.qualcomm.com/</a><br></br><br></br></p>
<p>This LTE Direct Developer Portal gives you tools for developing the next generation of proximity services using LTE Direct. It give you access to the SDK. It provides sample applications, educational material including videos and white papers, and a forum to exchange and discuss ideas.</p>
<p><i>Use this portal to build the next great LTE Direct…</i></p>
<p><a href="https://ltedirect.qualcomm.com/" target="_blank">https://ltedirect.qualcomm.com/</a><br/><br/></p>
<p>This LTE Direct Developer Portal gives you tools for developing the next generation of proximity services using LTE Direct. It give you access to the SDK. It provides sample applications, educational material including videos and white papers, and a forum to exchange and discuss ideas.</p>
<p><i>Use this portal to build the next great LTE Direct application.</i></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/research/projects/lte-direct" target="_blank">https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/research/projects/lte-direct</a><br/> <br/>LTE Direct is a new and innovative device-to-device technology that enables discovering thousands of devices and their services in the proximity of ~500m, in a privacy sensitive and battery efficient way. This allows the discovery to be “Always ON” and autonomous, without drastically affecting the device battery life unlike other Proximity solutions such as OTT based that use GPS, or BT-LE and WiFi Direct.</p> http://davidbrin.blogspot.be/…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-08-16:2003008:Comment:546662014-08-16T13:11:51.619ZDante-Gabryell Monsonhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/DanteGabryellMonson
<p><a href="http://davidbrin.blogspot.be/2014/08/ways-to-make-civilization-robust.html" target="_blank">http://davidbrin.blogspot.be/2014/08/ways-to-make-civilization-robust.html</a><br></br><br></br>"Now comes terrific news. “Qualcomm and other wireless companies have been working on a new cellular standard—a set of technical procedures that ensures devices can “talk” to one another—that will keep the lines open if the network fails. The Proximity Services, or so-called LTE Direct, standard will be…</p>
<p><a href="http://davidbrin.blogspot.be/2014/08/ways-to-make-civilization-robust.html" target="_blank">http://davidbrin.blogspot.be/2014/08/ways-to-make-civilization-robust.html</a><br/><br/>"Now comes terrific news. “Qualcomm and other wireless companies have been working on a new cellular standard—a set of technical procedures that ensures devices can “talk” to one another—that will keep the lines open if the network fails. The Proximity Services, or so-called LTE Direct, standard will be approved by the end of the year.” ...</p>
<p>"[O]ur pocket phones should have a backup communication mode that is peer-to-peer, that could pass messages from phone to phone through any afflicted area until they reach a zone with cell service, at which point the messages would spill into the continental network.</p>
<p>"This would be frightfully easy to accomplish, especially for simple text messages. In fact, the technology has been incorporated in Qualcomm’s latest chip sets. Though the major carriers — AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, <span class="text_exposed_show">etc — have all refused to activate it...</span>"</p> http://www.wired.com/2014/05/…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-05-13:2003008:Comment:538832014-05-13T18:40:13.908ZDante-Gabryell Monsonhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/DanteGabryellMonson
<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/out-in-the-open-indie-box" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2014/05/out-in-the-open-indie-box</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">A Box in Every Home</span></p>
<p>But the bigger aim is to put an Indie Box in every home. Running a home web server may sound ridiculously geeky, but keep in mind that personal computers, home internet connections, and smartphones were once the exclusive province of geeks. All are now mainstream, and Ernst says…</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/05/out-in-the-open-indie-box" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/2014/05/out-in-the-open-indie-box</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 1.17em;">A Box in Every Home</span></p>
<p>But the bigger aim is to put an Indie Box in every home. Running a home web server may sound ridiculously geeky, but keep in mind that personal computers, home internet connections, and smartphones were once the exclusive province of geeks. All are now mainstream, and Ernst says many people are already interested in the idea.</p> http://redecentralize.org/
w…tag:p2pfoundation.ning.com,2014-05-13:2003008:Comment:536332014-05-13T18:09:26.543ZSepp Hasslbergerhttps://p2pfoundation.ning.com/profile/Sepp
<p><a href="http://redecentralize.org/" target="_blank">http://redecentralize.org/</a></p>
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<p>wants to promote decentralization of the internet. They have a series of interesting video interviews (fourteen at this time) with people who are building parts of the puzzle that will eventually fit together to make up a newly decentralized net which lets us communicate, share media and store our data in a secure manner, without having to go to the centralized servers that do much of this work…</p>
<p><a href="http://redecentralize.org/" target="_blank">http://redecentralize.org/</a></p>
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<p>wants to promote decentralization of the internet. They have a series of interesting video interviews (fourteen at this time) with people who are building parts of the puzzle that will eventually fit together to make up a newly decentralized net which lets us communicate, share media and store our data in a secure manner, without having to go to the centralized servers that do much of this work today, but at a heavy price for our privacy.</p>