Social Networks and P2P
November 15th, 2004From an article in the The Harvard Crimson Online:
“With the release of Wirehog—for both Mac and PC—Zuckerberg is betting on the appeal of a uniquely personal approach to file-sharing.”
“Unlike popular programs such as Kazaa and Morpheus, which allow users to search and download among a worldwide network of computers, Wirehog only allows the exchange of files between two acquaintances in a fashion more akin to the file-transfer feature on many instant messaging programs.”
I love the concept here. Only share files with people with whom you trust and collaborate. While it’s easy to just send a file as an attachment, using this software, I can have a bunch of files on my desktop that my peers can grab at will….only if I let them. Effect on libraries? Maybe we can use this type of service for document delivery? Or grabbing cataloging records…