A whole new peer web

[getify]

Tracing the history of web platform technologies, we can see several major inflection points, from Ajax, to the plugin-web, to the open-HTML5 web, etc. We didn't really understand at the time how these evolutions and revolutions would change the trajectory of the web, but it's clear in retrospect that our path was fundamentally altered as a result.

I believe we are entering the next major shift in the direction of the web. In fact, I think this will be the most fundamental change we've seen since the invention of the .com. That new direction is the de-centralization of the web, the emergence of a peer-to-peer web.

No, I don't just mean that we get peer-to-peer video and screen sharing apps. Those are just cool.

Peer data channels are going to remake what we know the web to be. We haven't even scratched the surface of what that will entail. Some very cool early experiments like PeerCDN and ShareFest give us a glimpse. But there's so much more!

This talk is going to highlight what's happening in the peer-to-peer web now, and on the immediate horizon, and also hopes to inspire some star gazers to help start envisioning what's over that horizon. Our web is never going to be the same again.

[maboa]

See the comments here http://happyworm.com/blog/2011/03/07/p2p-web-apps-brace-yourselves-everything-is-about-to-change/ to get an idea of interest on this topic.