self as server

Self-host server.

Pulse and gather.

If you've got a point to point connection you can stream following negotiation of connection speed. Packet switching, routing tables, that sort of thing. Which I suppose also superficially resembles time-slicing style multi-tasking. Or maybe it's not a superficial resemblance.

Pulse-and-Gather allows for per-packet micro-payments which really seems the more "fair" way of allowing data access\transmission. Like a toll road, paying per mile for access to the infrastructure.

Like the ripples in a pond. Or ripples in most liquids if you don't like pond metaphors. A still pool of crystal mountain rain? That doesn't even make any sense! A crystalline pool of glacier drip?

Anyway.

Currently we've got the DNS system, turning IPs in to URLs and that kind of shit. I find no reason that such a system cannot be adapted for a single-user private-server sort of deal.

It seems to allay privacy concerns. Rather than Google owning all your info and you being permitted access to it while they pimp your demographic data on the side you can own all your shit and instead pay other folks to host and distribute it (essentially linking it, providing pointers to it). Instead of FaceSpace hosting and owning your shit you own it, host it, and pay to have it published for listing.

You send out some sweet requests on the pulse and you receive some sweet data on the gather (or return pulse).

Like a tagging along. "While you are at the store can you get me..." "See if they have...." and then the pulse carries it out and away. Provided we're looking at solid local caching and WORM stores you should quickly be able to sort stuff out. Like a BSP in old skool gaming.

I'm still unsure of how to reverse the flow of advert money but this is a nice method for getting it out again. Question of if the cost of sales, marketing, advertizing, etc actually result in a significantly higher price for the goods\services themselves. It seems as if they must somehow. Google is making a LOT of money providing a dinky service of (IMO) questionable value (click-thru = what?). If you assume, and I do, that that money coming to Google is being taken from the companies doing the advertizing then what's to stop a reversal? That is the company keeps the money and spends it on their employees who then spend it in the larger general economy thru methods such as these.

It seems inherently more honest in some ways. Rather than getting a bunch of stuff "for free" and paying for it on the back end (like small merchants getting the dick from the CC companies with their "fees" which directly benefit the CC companies themselves) you just...pay for stuff.

So you carry and own all your data and then pay to have that data "published" to a host service. Like a (any) large database you get replication over time from datastore to datastore, this is the pulse\gather method. Changes propagate from the pulse (like a tide if you will) to the publishing stores and then the gather aggregates those changes and propagates them back to the clients (us).

There isn't much fancy about this to be honest. I move, I send a change of address to my CC company, insurance company, etc, they get that pulse (the mail system, or internet) and update their shit, and then all future queries come right back to me (my mailbox\door step).

This, again, is to enable the NNNNNN protocols. I ask you, you ask your friend, your friend asks their friends, etc, and pretty quickly, since we're dividing the time\space out in a somewhat linear pattern, we'll find the locations of what we're looking for.

For instance if you don't know a particular word in Spanish you can ask the guys nearest you, if they don't know they ask the ones closest to them which are not contained in the first set of "nearest" folks, and so forth. The pulse goes out. Since you're limiting your search at each extension of range you are at the same time excludnig previously searched areas.

If it's not in the kitchen then you don't have to keep going back to check there, if it's not in the house you can quickly move to looking down the street, after the first couple of searches your can go to an aggregator, much like what we've got now anyway. Aggregators are just going to sit there and update the version history as new pulses come in, mostly passive process. Of course you'll still have your favorites\bookmarks. Same as friends in Myspace (or meat space), just directly link to their server, catch RSS updates, etc.

Still needs work of course but part of the aim here is to save battery power. If you've a software radio