Decentralization - The Peer-To-Peer Challenge
Managing information becomes more and more important for individuals and corporations that want to use the web strategically to build value. Easy to use tools will have a huge impact on the way people and companies interact in communications, digital media and business.
It is the interactivity of the Internet that makes information individual and XML-based technology allows personalized distribution and consumption on-demand accross several content sources.
Current trends in
information architecture, the development of user-provided information in so called
folksonomies and
wikis and the use and combination of single function focused applications show that the Internet is shifting to a medium that is genuinely more and more peer-to-peer structured with a decentralized authority.