Friday, March 08, 2002

[Scripting News] DaveNet: Our Back-Door Sell.  killer apps come in through the back door... :) 2:44:33 PM

[Douglas W. Burke's Radio Weblog] Mining the Genome. The Human Genome Project piles up Everests of data. But getting new drugs out of it will require sophisticated software for sniffing out patterns—one of the most crucial tasks of the hot field known as bioinformatics. [Technology Review - Software] 7:56:10 AM

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]   The more time I spend thinking about P2P architectures, the more I think that IM is the solution.  Here is how they stack up: 1) Proven scalability.  Compare the ~3 m simultaneous users online at AIM with the ~1.5 m at Napster and Morpheus (at their peaks). 2) The ability to connect to specific individuals on an IM system vs. the fractional network approach on the current P2P systems. 3) Authorization and buddy lists.  IM has it.  P2P systems offer the ability to ban only. 4) QoS (Quality of Service) is much higher on IM than the current P2P systems. 7:55:41 AM