O'Reilly Radar > Skyrider: Commercializing P2P

A few weeks ago, I had dinner with my old friend Ed Kozel, and he gave me a peek at what's he's been working on, a new company called Skyrider that's building a platform for building commercial P2P services. Skyrider still isn't saying that much publicly about what they're doing -- their press release (to which I contributed a quote) is mainly socializing the idea that P2P networks haven't gone aw

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"Speaking of Web 2.0, it's worth noting that a lot of my thinking about what we're now calling Web 2.0 didn't start with the web at all. It started with peer-to-peer file sharing, which was one of the first applications to realize the full power of the internet as platform. "

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"Skype, from the founders of Kazaa, took P2P into another, less controversial application. Skyrider looks P2P file sharing in the face, and asks, can we make the financial opportunities so obvious that content owners and distributors embrace it in the light of day?"