In my search for innovative web and Internet applications, I noted the buzz around new P2P company Skyrider at the end of last week. While it’s hard to say whether Skyrider is truly innovative, seeing as they don’t actually have a product on the market yet (it’s due “in the fall”), they are making interesting noises about commercializing P2P.
In particular Skyrider states in its press release that “P2P has the potential to be the dominant network architecture of this century” – which of course Skyrider is poised to take advantage of. This is echoed by Tim O’Reilly on his blog, in which he likens Skyrider’s potential to that of Google:
“Just as Google crystallized a new vision of how to monetize the web, leading to the explosion of innovation that we now call Web 2.0, Skyrider is building technologies that could bring a rich new commercial ecosystem to P2P.”
Those are big claims, especially as the dominant network architecture currently is the client-server model of the Web (i.e. one to many). P2P is about many-to-many distribution and has so far been most useful for distributing music and other large multimedia files. And when it comes to video and audio, I don’t think many would argue that P2P is more efficient than a client-server model – as long as it’s managed well.
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