[zeromq-dev] An interesting use-case for EdgeNet : Asynchronous IRC?

[Pieter Hintjens]

Lindley, would you be able to help get Zyre et all working on Android?

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Lindley French <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh---and some network functionality shuts down on Android when the device is
> inactive if you don't take the appropriate lock. This is a critical
> consideration when designing edge networking services.
>
> On Jan 1, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Lindley French <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Android at least, if you have any trouble with UDP broadcast or
> multicast, you should trying using the IPv6 all-hosts address. Android's
> built-in filtering doesn't seem to affect IPv6 the same way as IPv4.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Sean Robertson <sprobertson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I have something like this in the works, in the form of an iOS application
>> that I hope to soon port to Android. It doesn't properly use Zyre but rather
>> my own haphazard  reimplementation, due to some silliness with Apple's UDP
>> broadcast (https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/issues/297). The UI works decently
>> though. I'll send the code to this list later this week.
>>
>> On Dec 31, 2013 6:38 PM, "Lindley French" <lindleyf at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Asych twitter is a good idea and will work well. I've seen it done.
>>> Another fun application is async push to talk.
>>>
>>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 9:32 PM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> May asynchronous twitter be more appropriate for my idea?
>>> Asynchronous twitter, asynchronous IRC, whatever.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 11:19 AM, crocket <crockabiscuit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> With asynchronous IRC software, you can choose your nickname and a
>>>> topic.
>>>> You send messages that belong to a topic.
>>>> People who subscribed to that topic receive your message.
>>>> Or they might choose to receive messages from every topic.
>>>>
>>>> This becomes very interesting when population density goes up very high
>>>> in a small area.
>>>> Imagine that you went to comiket. Wikipedia says "Comiket (コミケット
>>>> Komiketto?), otherwise known as the Comic Market (コミックマーケット Komikku
>>>> Māketto?), is the world's largest dōjinshi fair, held twice a year in Tokyo,
>>>> Japan."
>>>>
>>>> ~590,000 people attended comiket last summer. It basically looks like
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Comiket77.jpg
>>>>
>>>> With hundreds of thousands of people in a small area, asynchronous IRC
>>>> becomes fun.
>>>> Not as fun as the near-synchronous one we have now, but still.
>>>>
>>>> I think asynchronous IRC may entice people to adopt EdgeNet starting
>>>> from big meetups.
>>>
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