Microsoft on Darknet

[Steve Schear]

At 09:24 AM 11/25/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
>Steve's excellent analysis of how the Network Effect worked against
>Mojo indicates a social-fix for Mojo++, ie: make it easy to get on
>and get content.  Ie, get them hooked.  They'll at least be autosharing
>stuff they've
>downloaded.

Not really .  Mojo is not a file sharing system, its a publication based 
distributed file system.  Each client mirrors but a small part of the 
10**192 chucks of file space. Whether a client downloads content or not is 
only indirectly related to the chucks stored on their HD by their 
client/broker SW.

>After they're hooked, folks may feel like contributing
>their time/attention to injecting new material, and to get "unlimited"
>access folks will have to contribute.  But you have to get them hooked
>first.

And there in lie the problem.  Without significantly reducing a user's 
effort to publish and/or providing some sort of encouragement to tweak the 
content meta-data (Kaaza has recently done that to help address leeching 
and hacker attempts to reduce content quality through spoofing and other 
tricks).

steve