Instant messengers, gnutella, gnubile, etc.

["Todd Boyle" <tboyle@rosehill.net>]

The architecture approaches of these programs have interesting possibilities
for ecommerce - a geodesic model for distribution of bids and offers,
without a role for B2B hubs where rents would be collected,

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/05/12/magazine/gnutella.html
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-05/lw-05-vcontrol_2.html

Individuals and small businesses be reached to conduct business, without
requiring a webserver, etc. using instant messengers such as Yahoo, AOL,
AOL ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc.

http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/impp-charter.html
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2778.txt

Todd