Hey! Congrats on the Gillmor quote juxtaposed to the Sun plug!
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/svtech/columns/front/docs/dg021601.htm
Meanwhile, lots of companies you've never heard of are pushing hard to
make their presence felt, if not known yet, in the P-to-P arena. One
is called KnowNow (), based in Menlo Park, and this company could
be onto something big.
Normally, a browser sends a request for information, which is
delivered by the server. The connection ends.
KnowNow holds the connection open. Then it adds some other software
code and, voila, you have a mini-server inside the browser. You're
not necessarily clogging the data pipes, but you are pretending, in
effect, that you're downloading a long document, slowly, while the
browser keeps communicating with the server.
The application potential here seems almost limitless -- real-time,
two-way communications with sophistication. There are also some
security issues, such as the possibility of compromising corporate
firewalls. If this works as described, however, it sounds valuable.
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