Blog: The P2P Revolution @ MetaASO

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.