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A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe
Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Emin Gun Sirer

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Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Emin Gun Sirer. "A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer Publish-Subscribe". ;login, 31(4):42-46, July 2006.

Abstract
THE WEB HAS FAILED TO FULFILL ITS promise of delivering relevant news and information in a timely fashion. In fact, it doesn’t deliver anything on its own at all; instead, it requires its users to explicitly poll information sources. Checking for updates by pointing, clicking, and reloading Web sites, whether the sites are Slashdot, news, or online classifieds, is not only slow, inefficient, and cumbersome for users, but it places an unnecessary bandwidth burden on content providers. Recent attempts to automate this process, with the aid of feed readers, have created more problems than they have solved. A system that detects updates to content anywhere on the Web and delivers it to users via an asynchronous channel, such as an instant message, would do much to relieve the burden on users and content providers alike.

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    Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Emin Gun Sirer.
    <a href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/167.html"
    >A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer
    Publish-Subscribe</a>, <i>;login</i>,
    31(4):42-46, July 2006.
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    Ryan Peterson, Venugopalan Ramasubramanian, Emin Gun Sirer.
    "A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer
    Publish-Subscribe". <i>;login</i>,
    31(4):42-46, July 2006.
  • BibTeX
    @article{PetersonRamasubramanianSirer06_PracticalApproachToPeertoPeerPublishSubscribe,
        author = {Ryan Peterson and Venugopalan Ramasubramanian and
                  Emin Gun Sirer},
        title = {A Practical Approach to Peer-to-Peer
                  Publish-Subscribe},
        journal = {;login},
        volume = {31},
        number = {4},
        pages = {42-46},
        month = {July},
        year = {2006},
        abstract = {THE WEB HAS FAILED TO FULFILL ITS promise of
                  delivering relevant news and information in a
                  timely fashion. In fact, it doesn’t deliver
                  anything on its own at all; instead, it requires
                  its users to explicitly poll information sources.
                  Checking for updates by pointing, clicking, and
                  reloading Web sites, whether the sites are
                  Slashdot, news, or online classifieds, is not only
                  slow, inefficient, and cumbersome for users, but
                  it places an unnecessary bandwidth burden on
                  content providers. Recent attempts to automate
                  this process, with the aid of feed readers, have
                  created more problems than they have solved. A
                  system that detects updates to content anywhere on
                  the Web and delivers it to users via an
                  asynchronous channel, such as an instant message,
                  would do much to relieve the burden on users and
                  content providers alike.},
        URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/167.html}
    }
    

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