Izimi is the next logical step in self-publishing; izimi empowers you to publish what you want, when you want, and keeps you in control. The old social networking services dictated what you could publish, but hey, that was fine when we had no alternatives.
Izimi is a direct competitor to Dekoh. It seems that there are quite a lot of offerings in this space. Firefox Developer Blake Ross's Paraket is a high profile offering in the same space.
The first product that integrated the webbrowser with an embedded server was Ray Ozzie's Groove. However, Groove did not have an aggregating central server as part of it. Groove was positioned as Peer-to-Peer version of Lotus Notes.
Brad Neuberg, a leading contributor of Dojo (offline version), had earlier released a JXTA P2P based Mozilla Plugin called Paper Airplane.
Paper Airplane is a Mozilla plugin that empowers people to easily create collaborative P2P web sites, without setting up servers or spending money. It does this by integrating a web server into the browser itself, including tools to create collaborative online communities that are stored on the machine. Paper Airplane Groups are stored locally on a user's machine. A peer-to-peer network is created between all of the Paper Airplane nodes that are running in order to resolve group names and reach normally unreachable peers due to firewalls or NAT devices.
Hive, my earlier effort, also integrated Jetty, JXTA and Browsers together to form a Peer-to-Peer tool similar to Groove. These products, during 2000 to 2002 were marketed as P2P products.
Social Networking and Web 2.0 memes took over the P2P Concept. People 2 People has become Social Networking. However Web 2.0 concepts such as Tagging, Ajax, User Created Content etc have definitely added some masala to the idea. However, the idea of content aggregator as a successful business model for the companies developing these products has gained currency. Also, Advertising as a revenue model has also gained currency between then and now..
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I dont think izimi is competition to Dekoh.
There are many products like izimi, which give you a way to publish content or allow file transfer out of the desktop, direct. However, Dekoh let you do much more:
- publish applications off the desktop; for example, you can run a game, share it with a few friends and let them play off your desktop
- develop new RIA applications to the dekoh, using web and open source standards
- build web2.0 like applications on the desktop; with platform provided sharing, tagging, rating, commenting, etc
- build rich interface to your application, using either Ajax, DHTML/CSS or Flash
Dekoh has 3 major elements:
(1) Dekoh Applications: personal media applications that can be compared to many similar media organizing/sharing products/sites
(2) Dekoh Network: The worldwide sharing platform, where Dekoh users can utilize controlled sharing of not only media, but applications
(3) Dekoh Desktop: The Rich Internet Application platform, that uses web standards and open source
If you like Izimi, check out Quickeo. The software is based on similar technology but much richer functionality.
I would agree with dekoh world - both izimi and dekoh do allow your PC to serve files, but that's pretty much where the similarities end and to say izimi is a direct competitor of dekoh would not be right. I have no expereince of using dekoh but from looking at their website, it seems to me that the ability to share files and applications with invited friends (private network) is its main focus (with many more features as part of the package). izimi's focus is more on open social networking (commenting, voting etc) where published files are accessible to anyone with a web browser (although izimi is constantly evolving. A new version is soon to be released which will include the option of private sharing plus many more features). John Wood, www.izimi.com
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