Dekoh vs p2p
Posted on April 11, 2007 by Ramesh
Filed Under Comparison, Technology.
The initial applications built for the dekoh platform are a suite of consumer applications- Dekoh Photos, Music, Books and Calender. These are applications that have managing media as its primary functionality. Dekoh Photos allows organizing photos on a desktop into collections, creating view templates, tag photos/collections, share the collections with friends, publish to other photo sites. The sharing functionality is enabled without needing any uploads- share the photos directly off your desktop. Others accessing these will be accessing your desktop- but do this by using just a browser. Just as you would if you are accessing aphoto site such as Flickr. No other software needed.
While these apps enable sharing of content, this is much beyond what P2P offers. P2P like Bit Torrent is just about sharing files. I can stream data. And I need specific software to view it. And no applications as such. It is just about files and data streaming. Dekoh, while it can enable everything P2P does, the platform is itself much beyond file sharing. It is a complete application platform with a good amount of Web2.0 enabling APIs/features like tagging, communities and collaboration.
Dev platform: The platform is an open development platform. Any web developer can build applications that can run on this platform. The APIs and developers guides are on the dev portal- dekoh.org
Dekoh is a rich web-desktop platform that enables building applications for the desktop using standard web programming languages and models. In so doing, dekoh enables bridging the desktop and its contents with the web. Bringing resources on the web available on the desktop (as part of the desktop apps written for dekoh). And gets applications running on the desktop available on the web. Users can share their dekoh applications with other users. Dekoh takes sharing beyond just access to the applications. Dekoh includes a Web2.0-enabling framework that allows sharing of data, tagging, collating and organizing data in templates, advanced security and collaboration between applications and users. With this, developers can build applications that are programmed using web programming languages (Java/JSP/Servlet/PHP/Flash/..), can work on data on the desktop, can enable collaboration across users and allows simple sharing.
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When i heard about this idea (somewhere in the newspapers) i was like its such a brilliant idea and its gonna revolutionize the internet.
But when i browsed through the website, installed it , i found something very complex about it all. Contrary to companies like Google and Apple who present complex ideas in a very user friendly way and any newbie can start using those products right away. I think this products need to be revamped a little to make it jargons free and much more intuitive.
I was going through Dekoh FAQ. This is what i see.
What is Dekoh?
Dekoh consists of 3 components:
A. Dekoh Desktop: Rich Internet Application platform for the desktop.
B. Dekoh Network: Enables secure sharing of Dekoh Desktop applications and content on the web. Viewers don’t need to install Dekoh software.
C. Dekoh Applications: Dekoh ships applications that run on Dekoh Desktop.
Now these jargons are very off putting unless you are a techie. I use google search engine and i do not bother which technology they use, which algo do they use. They say it is a search engine which makes more sense to me than something like “an Internet application platform created to search through all the ISPs in the world and according to their relevancy delivered to your desktop in that order”…