Blog: The P2P Revolution @ MetaASO

It has been a great 3 months since the availability of release 2 of our first 5 products. There has been an increasing demand for Audio versions of our products from the Media and Telecom companies. And we are upto the challenge.

The team has been working hard at trying to get the the Radio and Jukebox products out. You should find them available for download very soon. Give us another 6-8 weeks. The two products will contain suitable audio features to enable free large scale podcasts and radio stations.

Also there has been an influx of customer emails asking for a powerful messenger with collaborative features and large scale multimedia features. And we have been doing just that in our labs. But it has taken more time than we had anticipated. We will put up a messenger for download that will be simple and has more Horse Power than land movers. We have tried to make one that Corporates/Organisations can adopt and do away with expensive inhouse and commercial solutions. And one which can be also be used on the internet to collaborate with friends, aquaintences or even co-passengers at the airport lounge.

Our version 1 releases are usually in private corporate circles. Version 2 releases are public and version 3 releases are the ones in which we incorporate major collaborative features. We just want to make sure that we get the right things out. If you have noticed our UI’s are over simplified for our end users. Thats a concious effort to keep things simple as much as possible without compromising on horse power.

Apart from the 3 new products you can expect better packaging and Out Of The Box Experience. We are working with strategic partners to improve the Setup packaging, reduce sizes, test on more and more systems before we release the next set of installers. You can expect smoother install’s and almost 30-50% reduction in setup package size’s. And we will remove complex dependencies and OS quirks that popup sometimes during installation or operation.

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It has been the most exciting last one month at MetaASO. The Mermaid flagship products have been readied for launch. Its not a trivial task and we have limited resources. At the last moment everything did seem to be falling apart. But we have managed to get things done without going insane. Though we have been delayed by a few months.

But all in all, the revolution can get delayed, it can take a slow start but the revolution will come…

By this time next month we should have released our Mermaid line of products. It has been a great past 5 years. All those hours and all that sweat. Through all ups and downs, many have left us to pursue greener pastures. We still operate out of a garage. This time of the year in 2013 we should be serving the needs of billions of customers across the globe.

It is the thought process that separates the winners from the rest. From 2002 to 2013 would be a long journey. We hope we can work with society all the way to better and improve ourselves in an attempt to provide the society with path breaking systems/tools.

Life presents us with many choices at every step. Which look all alike in most respects. Most of them will throw us astray and take us away from our goal. Lets sit back after every milestone and think about where we have come and where we are headed.

Wishing all of you the best for the New Year 2008 ahead.

Vision-“One Earth: We are here to initiate a new era of software systems which we hope will enable the global citizens to evolve into a better and well knit society. “

Mission-“Reach One Reach All: Let’s make software with the capability to reach every person on the planet.”

As society evolves we need tools to bring us closer to each other irrespective of location, geography, demographics and religion. Mermaid is one such attempt. We hope to reach every desktop on the planet by the year 2013. We would have shrunk the world into a cosier place by then.

Also we believe that software should be available free to the end user. We are always looking at alternative financial models. We do believe that software could be closed source because thats one way of protecting the organizations interests. But that too could change in the future.

Keep watching these pages.

The internet was designed to be a peer to peer system in 1980’s. Sadly it took the form where people used their desktops as clients and connected to very privileged servers.
Today it is a mess of firewalls, NAT’s and routers and creating software for it means finding a hundred ways to deal with all that infrastructure. In 2002 we started on our effort to create communities and we weren’t taking the client/server route. Thats not what we think the future is going to be like.

There are a lot of issues with P2P systems mainly security, reliability, copyright and algorithms that scale. Things are so difficult that while hiring engineers we give them a peer to peer algorithm design problem. I don’t even want to mention the kind of answers we get. That said our Mermaid line of products is mainly composed of P2P v2.0 softwares which not only symbolize how the internet should be but also how the next generation of P2P softwares should be.

Mermaid is an attempt to assist the global citizens in shaping the next generation modern societies.