Staying connected

We all know how popular Facebook and MySpace have been in the past few years. In the past, people mainly stayed connected through email. But now, with social networking site, you can know a whole person's history from the classes that they are taking to what parties they plan to attend (if they let you). These social networking sites, realizing each other's need to constantly stay connected, began providing frameworks that allow application developers access to that connection link between peers. Developers can use that information to create applications that connect friends in unprecedented ways.  Some applications automatically update user profile's based on some criteria. For example, smartphones that can automatically upload pictures to Flickr or Facebook. With this connection information, applications can be much starter about who, when, how, and where to connect to each other.

• Imagine a peer-to-peer file sharing application that only connects to your facebook friends and allows you to share only with the people you want.


• Imagine being able to run your own website privately and allow only your friends access to it and not have its content show up on Google.


• Imagine graduate students at different universities connected together and allow their spare CPU cycles to be shared when their CPU is idle.


• Imagine friends being able to share their files with using email.


• Imagine friends being able to stream their video files to each other without having to download the entire file.


• Imagine being able to do all of this in 5 minutes or less.

Well, if you can dream it, then you can acheive it. Check out this link below, it may not be the answer to all of these dreams, but it's a start.

http://socialvpn.wordpress.com