[p2p-hackers] Bouillon 2 project: p2p wiki with reputations

[Victor Grishchenko]

Hi!

I'm presenting what could be described as "editable web" or "P2P  
WYSIWYG wiki with reputations running over a social network", or just  
the Bouillon project.

- Bouillon allows P2P editing of arbitrary XML (XHTML for now). But,  
there are no single global version of any page. Each user's agent  
retrieves and assembles pieces of a page from user's friends, friends- 
of-a-friend, etc
- If Bouillon user likes a page or a new piece of a page or a new  
version of an existing piece (i.e. considers it relevant) then (s)he  
may confirm that page/piece (i.e. issue an opinion) and let it  
propagate further in the social network
- If a Bouillon user considers a piece to be trash/spam then (s)he  
may suppress propagation of that piece issuing a negative opinion.
- Users may edit existing pieces or insert new pieces using their Web  
browsers or any other client if implemented.
Bouillon employs wiki-like addressing scheme, e.g. http:// 
your.bouillon.gateway/page/Page_Name. Different from wiki, pages are  
not local to any server because content freely propagates via social  
links. So, the actual Bouillon address is 'Page_Name'. What you see  
at that address depends on you and your social vicinity (friends,  
their friends, etc).

Under normal conditions, Bouillon may retrieve pieces and pages  
recommended by a friend of a friend at least (i.e. two steps away).  
So ideally, due to the six degrees of separation hypothesis, we'll  
need just two intermediary recommenders to get Bouillon content from  
any given point of social network to any other given point.

Bouillon is implemented over XMPP (Jabber) network and uses existing  
IM contacts. The application itself is an external component attached  
to a Jabber server. The core algorithm of Bouillon, oc-co engine, is  
content-agnostic and able to process any XML.

Bouillon demo site is online at http://oc-co.org:8000, see e.g.
	http://oc-co.org:8000/page/Bouillon_Manual 	or
	http://oc-co.org:8000/page/How_Bouillon_works    (this page is  
unfinished)
Note: the AJAX part works under Mozilla/Firefox only! You may use  
guest login 'foaf' with password 'foaf'.
See the project's blog at http://oc-co.org.

Any questions/ideas are welcome.


		Yours,

					Victor Grishchenko
					research fellow
					Ural State University
					Russia