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Sev­eral months ago I wrote about Freenet. It’s tech­nic­ally neat but I was under­whelmed by its util­ity, think­ing an uncensor­able net­work isn’t very neces­sary in today’s Inter­net. I wrote:
The primary value of some­thing like Freenet in mostly-​​​​free coun­tries like Canada would be Wikileaks, I would think. Well there is some of that  -   ( Read more... )

Someone recently asked about Freenet, so I decided to try it out again. If you’re curi­ous about Freenet, the about page gives a good descrip­tion of it. It’s a WWW-​​like net­work - minus the dynamic con­tent and search engines - with the added bene­fit that it’s totally anonym­ous and uncensor­able. “Anonym­ous” is a bit of a mis­nomer: it’s actu ( Read more... )

I won’t go over the back­ground of IPv6, but suf­fice it to say I think it’s rather keen and I’d like to see it catch on as it would sim­plify a lot of things. It’s got a ser­i­ous chicken-​​and-​​egg prob­lem: con­tent pro­viders don’t see the need to sup­port IPv6 until their read­ers are using IPv6; end-​​users don’t care about IPv6 until con­ ( Read more... )

With the recent announce­ment from Google regard­ing the release of Google Wave-slated for late Septem­ber 2009 - I finally decided to do some read­ing on it. I recom­mend watch­ing the abridged video of it to get an idea, though the abridged ver­sion leaves out some cool stuff about the protocol.

I love the pro­tocol. Both Google’s actions and ( Read more... )