How to get your P2P company funded
Analyst Andrea Rice of Deutsche Banc. Alex. Brown in San Francisco sounded off at the P2P Working Group meeting about how to secure venture funding.
May 2001
OS X sucks less this year
Mac OS X is finally developing into a leading user interface.
High-level technical summary of NAT-related features in UPnP residential gateway devices.
More data on how UPnP NAT’s and firewalls can be traversed in a standardized way. Still waiting for the API to be publicised.
Does Mac OS X violate Apple User Interface Guidelines?
Apple did extensive, exhausive and meticulous planning of it’s earlier OS’s- has OS X’s Aqua ditched substance in favor of style?
Joliet File System by Thomas Tempelmann
We’ve been waiting for aeons… Mac OS can finally read Windows CD long filenames… hurrah!
Decentralization Chat 11-05-01
Discussing IP issues, Street Performer Protocol, etc.
Internet Transparency- P2P needs end-to-end connectivity
RFC 2775, Internet Transparency, gives a great overview of most of the network problems inhibiting p2p and shows that prospects are not good.
UPNP: XML over HTTP over UDP, for P2P
UPNP is essentially plug-and-play discovery of network devices using XML over HTTP over UDP. It is relevant because it will be able to automatically open up incoming ports in NAT’s soon, which is relevant to the P2P community.
