peer-to-peer model Concepts

Surviving AI: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence

by Calum Chace · 28 Jul 2015 · 144pp · 43,356 words

which are AirBnB and Uber. Both were founded in San Francisco, of course – in 2008 and 2009 respectively. The level of investor enthusiasm for the peer-to-peer model is demonstrated by comparing AirBnB’s market cap of $20bn in March 2015 with Hyatt’s market cap of $8.4bn. Hyatt has over 500

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat

by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words

Department’s CHIP network. The CHIP prosecutors, with their special training on computer crimes, cut across the various US attorney’s offices, working in a peer-to-peer model, helping to provide technical expertise. We wanted to emulate that in national security cases, combining the CHIP model with another national Justice Department team known

Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy

by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle · 12 Mar 2019 · 349pp · 98,309 words

variety of workplaces and dealing with different “bosses” daily, such planning is nearly impossible. For TaskRabbit workers, especially, this can be a problem. Under the peer-to-peer model, workers are often hired by individuals who may not fully understand what they’re asking them to do, or who may downplay the description to

Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, AirBnB, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail

by Robert Bruce Shaw, James Foster and Brilliance Audio · 14 Oct 2017 · 280pp · 82,355 words

that Airbnb innovates faster than the competition and, in so doing, prevents others from doing what Airbnb is now doing to traditional hotels with its peer-to-peer model. Airbnb is constantly testing new ideas within its current model, such as hosts picking up their guests at the airport or providing them with walking

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existing order of things within their industries. Netflix is disrupting the media industry through its streaming service. Airbnb is disrupting the hospitality industry through its peer-to-peer model. Alibaba is disrupting the way business is done in China through its e-commerce sites. The leaders of these firms, however, realize that their long

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

by Matthew Ball · 18 Jul 2022 · 412pp · 116,685 words

exceeds $5 billion.8 Notably, the company was founded in 2013, but struggled to gain adoption until it pivoted from a traditional (i.e., unpaid) peer-to-peer model to one which offered contributors direct compensation via cryptocurrency. The long-term viability and potential of Helium remains uncertain; most internet service providers (ISPs) prohibit

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold · 24 Dec 2011

.S. Congress’s and FCC’s laws and rulings over the next few years will make the difference between a traditional broadcast model and a peer-to-peer model for wireless Internet. In the future, U.S. policies favoring multinational corporations probably will be incorporated in the international intellectual property treaty frameworks that are

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase · 14 May 2015 · 330pp · 91,805 words

time through a subscription service, I don’t feel the need to own music at all. Jeremiah Owyang, formerly an analyst at Forrester Research covering peer-to-peer models and how companies respond, is now founder of Crowd Companies, a brand council that offers research and strategic advice to companies seeking to become part

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words

the universal transactional language. Social Energy: Powering a Neighborhood Now, instead of poles, imagine digitizing every node in a power system to create entire new peer-to-peer models of power production and distribution. Everyone gets to participate in a blockchain-enabled power grid. Under a New York State–sponsored program to increase energy

Version Control With Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development

by Jon Loeliger and Matthew McCullough · 14 Aug 2012

aforementioned solutions. Each eliminated the central repository; instead, the store was distributed, providing each developer with his own shareable copy. Git is derived from this peer-to-peer model. Finally, Mercurial and Monotone contrived a hash fingerprint to uniquely identify a file’s content. The name assigned to the file is a moniker and

Talk Is Cheap: Switching to Internet Telephones

by James E. Gaskin · 15 Mar 2005 · 731pp · 134,263 words

to say how much their initial funding was, but said it was "less than $10 million" (Zennstrom interview with CNET 12/2/2003). Admittedly, the peer-to-peer model reduces costs, and the viral marketing scheme worked so well I don't think they've spent any significant advertising dollars. But the services they

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to say how much their initial funding was, but said it was "less than $10 million" (Zennstrom interview with CNET 12/2/2003). Admittedly, the peer-to-peer model reduces costs, and the viral marketing scheme worked so well I don't think they've spent any significant advertising dollars. But the services they