Projects
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[edit] Projects
- zSearch/Nutch
- Why search the whole Web when you want to search your PersonalWeb?
- zClassifieds/SellSideAds
- How can you run ads without being under the control of a single ad network?
- zTP/tpd
- How could one build ad-hoc, peer-to-peer, event notification service?
- zMarket/Zocalo
- How could you implement experimental economic markets easily? Open-source software for prediction markets by Chris Hibbert - download the source code here.
[edit] Concepts
- zNS
- DNS without ICANN
- zMail
- Fast, peer-to-peer secure email
- zNN
- The decentralized news network
- zBay
- How could you run a reliable peer-to-peer auction?
- zCal
- Why can't you watch your friends' calendars?
- PeerMarket
- Harness the power of 100,000 brains on the cheap.
[edit] Partnerships
We are actively investigating the synergy between open source, academic research, and commerce. We support the following open source projects, doing research that is just outside of what any one business will support:
- microformats.org
- A site for microformats advocacy, education, and technical information.
- Mod-PubSub
- An Internet-scale publish-subscribe software stack.
- captchaservice.org
- A web service that serves up CAPTCHAs, by Tim Converse.
- Wheat
- language and environment for creating dynamic web sites like blogs and portals: Every object has a URI, the virtual machine is a web server, and the development environment is a Wiki. By Mark Lentczner with Kragen Sitaker.
- Dojo Toolkit
- An effort by an invited set of contributors to create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers.
- Kev's Color Picker
- An SVG proof-of-concept application for choosing colors, by Kevin Hughes.
