Comments on: VRM echoes http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/07/vrm-echoes/ helping people break out of pigeonholes since 2003 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:47:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Radovan Semancik http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/07/vrm-echoes/comment-page-1/#comment-4000 Radovan Semancik Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:38:46 +0000 http://www.mediainfluencer.net/2008/07/vrm-echoes/#comment-4000 There few tasks that needs to be done for 3rd parties: * Trust brokering * Discovery, rendezvous points, matchmaking, ... The 3rd parties are needed for this at least until we find efficient distributed and decentralized algorithms for these tasks. Think about google search, that's a typical 3rd party. But I think that use of 3rd party to channel interactions is a wrong architecture. I believe that was your point. There few tasks that needs to be done for 3rd parties:

* Trust brokering
* Discovery, rendezvous points, matchmaking, …

The 3rd parties are needed for this at least until we find efficient distributed and decentralized algorithms for these tasks. Think about google search, that’s a typical 3rd party.

But I think that use of 3rd party to channel interactions is a wrong architecture. I believe that was your point.

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