ABSTRACT
Blogging and social networking with the facility of user-generated content creates a revolutionary new social media that uses the Internet as a platform through Web 2.0 technologies as the newest phase of the Internet. The new interactive technologies and peer-to-peer (P2P) architectures democratize writing and imaging and, thereby, also creativity itself, enabling anyone with access to a personal computer (PC) to become a creator of their own digital content. P2P systems have autonomy from central servers, and because of their radical decentralization, they are able to use resources at the edges of the Internet for storage and content sharing, communication, or computation. P2P systems are decentralized and self-organizing overlay architectures that exist independently of specific access networks. Their self-organizing organic architectures make them both robust and flexible, able to accommodate dynamic changes without provider interaction. The potential of P2P to develop new applications in user-generated content and community-based services is extraordinary and seemingly unlimited.
