ZAPPATA Personal Groupware
by Volker Weber
jcf writes:
It took quite a bit longer than expected, but R. and I have managed to release the first public beta of our vision of Personal Groupware: Please feel free to download the beta version of ZAPPATA and abuse it.
Comments
Any idea what ZAPPATA does?
http://forum.zappatanetworks.com/viewtopic.php?id=18
Well - ZAPPATA is a communication infrastructure. Simply put, it's peer 2 peer email (like in the good old days, when the machines talked directly to each other).
We see it as an addition to your regular email: It gives you a completely private (no spam), secure (direct, encrypted connections) way of exchanging messages (and later other things) with your peers.
To the end user, it looks like just another email account - he can use his favorite email program to communicate.
We provide the infrastructure in the background and manage all the gory details (changing IP adresses, public/private key infrastructure, DNS, authentication, encryption, etc)
You "just" send messages - but without anybody (ISP or certain agencies) in the loop.
Does that make sense?
Hi JCF ;)
will download the current version and give it a try on my linux box.
Doesn't sound very interesting to me by itself, but sounds like it could become the basis for something interesting.
Interesting to start it in debug mode, seeing what it does.
The real action is going on behind the scenes - well, I expected that...
Looks promising. Thanks for mentioning this, Volker
Ah yeah, debug mode on OSX:
java -jar zappata.jar debug
Some more command line switches:
- daemon - start headless (without launching the browser)
- shutdown - shutdown the running ZAPPATA application
- debug - write a debug log
and of course that also works on any other platform than OS X
when Setup Automatic Install?
I guess you are looking for an automated installer? This is coming when we near the release (and then ZAPPATA will also run as a service on Windows Boxen)
We have posted some more information on our website about why ZAPPATA is such a great idea ;-)
Whitepaper on ZAPPATA
