right tools and incentives

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The application is expected to be a peer-2-peer application facilitating a natural linking between user-created content and friend relationships (we naturally form our relationships in a peer-2-peer manner; why shouldn’t our social software be?). This achitecture also fosters dis
as well as fostering a distributed “meta”-application. Pictures, blog/journal entries, music, all kept in the Garden (an abstract cloud made with you and your trusted friend’s computers). No more walled gardens!
To further elaborate, is should be noted that User’s computers typically have incredibly wasted storage and unused computational power (typically 90% unused). We’ll use some of it and spare the overhead of large server farms and that way be able to scale up to millions of users with little effort (perhaps using Freenet as a backbone). In this way, also the beginnings of a new web economy could start being generated. Freenet is being User content (pictures, journal entries/blogs, music, etc) will be kept on the user’s computer, various protocols to be used for redundancy and reliability (cf. FreeNEt

Incentives. The visual interface into the vast network will be nicely visualizable and easy to navigate.