I've been skeptical at considerable length about the prospect of a decentralized Web [so] I was asked to summarize what would be needed for success apart from working technology.
BitTorrent tracker aggregator, dedicated to TV shows, if it airs it's in here (and fast), if you miss an episode you will find it here (they even post webisodes for series that got canceled)
Large-Scale Open-Source Web Search YaCy is a scalable personal web crawler and web search engine. One YaCy installation can store more than 10 million documents, but in a community of search peers YaCy can provide a search index of unlimited size.
Building a centralized database to process billions of open-ended queries per day is a mammoth undertaking. It appears that Google, who perhaps is the only company on the planet with enough imagination, incentive, and expertise to effectively build such a
Sampling, Mashing, Sharing This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
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C. Schmitz, S. Staab, R. Studer, G. Stumme, and J. Tane. Proc. of E-Learning 2002 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education on (E-Learning 2002), AACE, page 909-915. Norfolk, (2002)Awarded paper.
C. Schmitz, S. Staab, R. Studer, G. Stummen, and J. Tane. Proc. of E-Learning 2002 World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education on (E-Learning 2002), AACE, page 909-915. Norfolk, (2002)Awarded paper.