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I always believed in the marriage of P2P and web 2.0. Most of the signs were already out there. One obvious use of this combination was of course illegal downloading of movies amongst private web 2.0 networks. But as a system, I believe that if you could pass the rewards, and stimulate participation, one could harness this trend for good as well.

Pundits have been yammering away for years about a “celestial jukebox” that will give everyone the ability to access all content ever created, from anywhere, at any time. This long-discussed concept is finally becoming a reality, at least as far as music goes.
via Celestial Jukebox falls to earth

‘Hey, making applications for the iPhone shouldn’t be that hard’…. [I] thought how useful it would be to have a P2P client (first for me, then for the people) so I started learning and developing it myself.” - Wired

I therefore was pretty excited when I was reading Wired’s article on Eric Castro’s “iSlsk”. Eric is a 19 year old student of Universidad Tecnologica Nacional (UTN) (System’s Engineering career) located in Buenos Aires, Argentina and quite a geek with a life (to quote him) !

I had written earlier about how P2P will redefine Web 2.0/3.0 in my post researchers aim to make internet bandwidth a global currency. As internet traffic gets heavier, quicker and more efficient ways to do things are naturally going to be explored. I think that this is a definite and possible direction social media will take.

Now if Eric can handle the direction the app is going, he is definitely sitting on something very very big.

I was already impressed about my website going from just 10 to 20 visits per day to about +6000 visits overnight. Not to mention that iSlsk has already over 41,000 downloads, again, only in two days. Those numbers may not impress most people, but they do for me, since I never made something that massive.

• Wired Interview with Eric
• Eric’s Blog

PS: Since I don not own an unlocked i-phone and unable to get my hands on one, I shall of course have to wait to test out iSlsk.. Sorry Eric…