Battleangel

Socialized.Net is a peer-to-peer network based with socialized peers. Routing in the network is thus based on knowledge about other node’s interests, making it work much in the same way as humans cooperate. When I want to get information about used cars, I’m more likely to ask my car-interested buddy than starting on the first page in the phone-book…

The Socialized.Net is designed to work in both disconnected, weakly-connected (ad-hoc) and fully connected modes. The idea is that many of the future networking capable devices will be both very mobile. If we carry computers around, they should at least be able to help navigate the environment they are in. For example, travellers on a train should be able to find out about the train’s schedule and progress. This can easily be done locally on the train, thus using local communication as opposed to global communication (through the Internet). So, a traveller might ask “does anyone in this train know our schedule?”, and the train (or another traveller) can give a reply.

Source: Slashdot

Now that is quite a PhD project. I suspect that this guy should set aside quite a bit of his upcoming article to discuss how he was sued by greedy corporations. A very nice development idea though. May come in handy as a compliment as tracker websites become erratic or scarce. Software as well as plugins for various other programs are available on the site.