Montly archive for 2007-08

Decentralized chat networks proven better

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-08-20

Skype's recent three day network‐wide failure expose how bad centralized networks are compared to decentralized networks such as XMPP. I'll let BBC News explain what happen:

In a statement posted on its website, Skype said the widespread outage began after Skype's servers around the world re‐started following a software upgrade to user's computers.

The knock‐on effect was that an unusually high number of people tried to log on to the system at once and the Skype network could not cope.

To make matters worse, the scale of the failure exposed a previously unknown bug in the algorithm that should have helped the Skype network recover quickly.

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Sharing experiences

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-08-15

The next big thing in instant messaging clients—which are getting more cluttered by the hour—is experience sharing. Things like ‘adult entertainment’, family images, and YouTube clips are shared trough the chatting environments. The new iChat is a good example. But will other clients manage to catch up? Continued entry »

The West handles the information age all wrong

Words by Daniel Aleksandersen on 2007-08-01

The article Pandora's Technology Box really touches important issues in the first-world and how the world handles information technology. The information age is upo us, but the West is handling it all wrong.
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