[Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

[Chad]

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>> Adding people to a conversation already in progress is cool.  The rest of
>> it...I dunno...what's the point?
>
> Basically, moving the Internet usage from the client-server model to
> the peer-to-peer model with auxiliary role of servers. In other words,
> decentralization and personalization of Internet; the process very
> different from the centralization and unification [of look and feel]
> processes of last ~10 years.
>
> While P2P networks still exist, they are still 'Internet underground".
> If Google would be pushing Wave protocol, P2P will become mainstream.
>
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It's still not really P2P. The server still acts as the intermediary
and is where the data is stored. It's just really fast client-server.

-Chad