inignoct wrote:
] this guy makes some interesting points, but i think his final
] conclusion is wrong. There are still a lot of IM services out
] there, with varying numbers of users. What happened is not
] that all but one died out, but that developers built clients
] that talk to all the networks, and users registered accounts
] with 2 or 3 or more different IM systems. I could see a
] similar thing happening with file sharing systems... they'll
] become neighborhoods, more or less suited to particular types
] and classes of information, and clients will be built that
] transparently handle all of them at once.

The thing is that a centralized search system is a lot more efficient at finding the file that you want then these p2p networks. (This is essentially why I think MemeStreams is better then a network of distributed bloggers using reputation enabled RSS aggregators. The data is simply more reliable, easier to access, and easier to index, when it is all stored in a central location.)

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