The OKCon 2010 has come and gone - it was a great event and I really enjoyed attending and talking at it. The organisers have posted a resource page with links to presentations, images and more: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/2010/after

. So this is me (below) talking at the event...

A couple of very interesting research papers that I came across recently...both are looking at cross sections of complex data systems and how they interact and operate. One of these is old (in technology terms), from 1998 and describes the emergence of Google;

Anyone who's used Twitter much will have noticed the frequent service outages - aka Whale Fail - after the image us users see then this happens. Given Twitter's enormous growth of the past few years (sometimes exceeding 1000%!) then the demands on it's central servers must be huge. Which is where p2p technology could help - as it scales with demand because as more people join they also bring their capacity too;