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2013/10/21

Jean Lievens: Peer to Peer (P2P) Lab 2013 Publications

A list of P2P Lab collaborators’ publications in international peer-reviewed journals, starting from 2013: 2013 Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. Commons-Based Peer Production …

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2013/06/20

Jean Lievens: Social Media Killing Peer-to-Peer

deadSwap Artistic Statement A major impact of the commercialization of the Internet has been the undermining of its peer-to-peer architecture. As Capital must always control the circulation of value in order to appropriate surplus, its champions view peer networks as a threat. The Web, although it sits on top of the Internet, is not a …

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2013/05/24

Jean Lievens: Peer production & Modularity — A Lego Experiment

Peer production, modularity & voxels: The RepRap-based, Lego-built 3D printing-milling machine This research project aims to shed light on the conditions of transferability of Commons-based peer production (CBPP) processes to physical manufacturing. We draw from the political economy of CBPP and its conjunction with digital, desktop manufacturing technologies, the concept of “voxels”, and the case …

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2013/05/192013/05/19

Poor Richard: PeerPoint – Open P2P Proposal

PeerPoint An Open P2P Requirements Definition and Design Specification Proposal Google Doc created June 6, 2012 Last updated October 19, 2012 PeerPoint shares a vision of “Sovereign Computing”: “To be the true owner of your information and of your computer’s hardware resources, as well as to share these things in any way you want and …

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2013/04/25

BitTorrent Sync creates private, peer-to-peer Dropbox, no cloud required No size limits, no cloud

BitTorrent Sync creates private, peer-to-peer Dropbox, no cloud required No size limits, no cloud: Hands-on with BitTorrent’s new file syncing software. BitTorrent today released folder syncing software that replicates files across multiple computers using the same peer-to-peer file sharing technology that powers BitTorrent clients. The free BitTorrent Sync application is labeled as being in the …

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2013/04/242013/04/24

Patrick Meier: Jointly: Peer-to-Peer Disaster Recovery App

Jointly: Peer-to-Peer Disaster Recovery App My colleague Samia Kallidis is launching a brilliant self-help app to facilitate community-based disaster recovery efforts. Samia is an MFA Candidate at the School of Visual Arts in New York. While her work on this peer-to-peer app began as part of her thesis, she has since been accepted to the NEA Studio …

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2013/03/232013/03/26

Michel Bauwens: Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Bauwens & Bruns)

Peer Governance and Wikipedia (interview with Bauwens & Bruns) This week the interviews with experts and (ex-)Wikipedians, on which parts of my paper “Peer Governance and Wikipedia: Identifying and Understanding the Problems of Wikipedia’s Governance (2009)” were based, are going to be presented in a series of separate posts. This first post contains the short …

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