This week’s issue of The Economist features a misleading article on the supposed “decline” of p2p-based file-sharing. They use Sweden as a key example, however basing their interpretation on wildly misleading, biased data. Here is my rebuttal. Continue reading
…and most of the files shared are video files. The biggest p2p protocol, by sheer volumes of data exchanged, is BitTorrent. According to a special report by Internet analyst ipoque (2007), peer-to-peer (p2p) keeps producing more Internet traffic than all other applications combined. Continue reading
Has the novelty of Facebook reached a plateau? Google Trends’ frequency indicates that the site’s dissemination has reached an S-curve of technology adoption, where the accumulated penetration of an innovation flattens out as the uptake becomes saturated. Continue reading
The idea of a tiered Internet, with “diamond lanes” for heavy commercial services like web TV and IP telephony, is a key contemporary issue – not only technically, but democratically. The issue is not, however, entirely without irony… Continue reading
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