[Foundation-l] Google Wave and Wikimedia projects

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/30 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I don't get it... this is just MSN Messenger on steroids. It's a great
idea and if it works it should be really useful, but it isn't
world-changing and certainly isn't going to restructure the internet.