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Thursday, April 26, 2007  



WiPeer - Serverless Peer to Peer Collaboration
http://www.wipeer.com/

WiPeer enables sharing files directly among computers, playing multi-player games, chatting, and collaboration over both Wi-Fi and home/office networks. WiPeer was born as a research project at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, to provide peer-to-peer Wi-Fi and home/office networking based collaborative applications such as multiplayer interactive games, chat, search, file sharing, and eventually also collaborative productivity tools. This is through direct communication between the devices and without going through any third party infrastructure or gateway, and without relying on a central server. WiPeer helps to establish ad-hoc communities/social networks and find people from your network when they are nearby. The WiPeer community is growing fast. WiPeer offers a simple collaboration with nearby people. Features include: a) Ad-Hoc Social Networks - WiPeer enables users to define personal profiles, and to view other on-line users profiles. This way, it is possible to meet people with similar interests; b) Friends Locator - WiPeer enables users to define a list of contact persons. Whenever one of the contact persons connects into the network, WiPeer notifies the user about it; c) Interactive Multiplayer Games - WiPeer comes bundled with several multiplayer games including Chess, Chinese Checkers, Reversi, and Connect 4; d) Chat (Instant Messaging) - With WiPeer, it is possible to chat with other on-line users. WiPeer supports both private chats (with specific users) and public chat rooms to which any user may join; e) File Sharing - File sharing becomes a breeze with WiPeer. You may share both files and complete folders either to a specific user or to anyone in your network; f) File Searching - WiPeer supports searching for files located in the computers of other users in the network. The search is guaranteed to return only files that were shared with the searching party. Also, WiPeer accomplishes this goal without exporting the index outside any computer, so this feature does not compromise the privacy of WiPeer users; g) Creating Ad-Hoc Networks - Ad-hoc networks are formed between two or more laptops equipped with WiFi without reliance on any access-point or other third party infrastructure. In particular, there are no connection fees and no dependence on hot-spot availability. In other words, they can be formed anywhere, including in airlanes, trains, busses, etc. This has been added to the P2P section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

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