Keet takes a new approach by creating a chat app which ensures that your calls are secured with end-to-end encryption, sharing data exclusively among participants. With no intermediaries, third-parties, or servers in the mix. Keet's video calls thrive on direct connections between you and other peers, bypassing servers that could impede your performance—bringing about a noticeable enhancement in your communication experience.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Āhau proposes a different take on social apps for many reasons. First of all, it's P2P social. Secondly and most interesting its the direction the app made, focusing on helping tribes maintain their cultural heritage. Its a great example of combining state-of-art tech with a clear social purpose. Continue reading to learn more.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Unleash your creativity process with Dcent Reads. The goal is to connect readers directly with writers while empowering writers with a platform that allows them to publish for free with a focus on removing any barrier in the middle.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
One of the most fundamental human needs is to communicate. It allows us to organize and lever up communities. In the internet era, chat apps have become a commodity. These kind of apps, are so important to us. We use them daily without even noticing. Most of the time, we are using centralized chat. These apps have become one of the main data collection points, real privacy is never a priority.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Let's unveil the browser for the P2P era with Agregore. With a minimal API surface approach and extentions-oriented, aggregore offers a solid approach to surf the distributed web and create local first apps & sites. Agregore supports hyper, ipfs and bittorent.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
1,2 Check Check. Let's explore the combination between P2P and audio streaming with Sher. GEUT's first solo project became an audio streaming platform that lives right on your browser. No install required. No messy setups. Multiple remote streamers all in one place. Continue reading to see Sher in action.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Would you like to be in control of your own data? To track your own bio stats? We are constantly producing all these metrics and now we can be in control or at least that’s what HOP, short for Health Oracle Protocol is for. | Dat Ecosystem Blog
Welcome to our first demo session! We are opening this new space to founders to introduce their projects. It’s a great opportunity to have a quick view into that new project you just heard of and see how it works and how it can be used.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Greetings, interstellar explorers and seekers of cutting-edge knowledge! Prepare your babel fish and fasten your hyperspace belts as we embark on an exhilarating journey through the cosmos of peer-to-peer technology with the renowned Mathias Buus, core maintainer of the Hypercore protocol and Co-Founder of Holepunch.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Are you ready for an extraordinary experience? Buckle up and get ready to witness the captivating interview with Tony Ivanov where we plunge headfirst into the enigmatic depths of PicoStack. Join us as we uncover the hidden gems and unveil the inner workings of this groundbreaking blockchain toolkit.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Embark on a transformative journey as we delve into the revolutionary world of DatDot with Nina Breznik and Alexander Praetorius. Discover how this peer-to-peer project empowers users, safeguards privacy, and ensures data availability, all while reshaping the digital landscape.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Don't Panic! If you're a writer or a journalist seeking a new frontier in the vast expanse of the literary cosmos, then hold on tight and prepare for a journey into the world of Hyperpubee. This is not just your ordinary publishing platform; it's a decentralized utopia where words flow freely among peers, sparking creativity and collaboration like never before.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Step into the enchanting world of Maori tribal archiving, dear readers, as we embark on a whimsical journey like no other. Today, we are absolutely delighted to announce our upcoming interview with the extraordinary Mix Irving from Ahau. Prepare to be mesmerized as we uncover the secrets of this ingenious Maori community archiving project, where peer-to-peer software breathes life into family trees and weaves captivating stories. With grants and partnerships with Maori collectives, this endea...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Greetings, fellow pioneers of the digital realm! Today, we are thrilled to introduce you to the extraordinary Health Oracle Protocol (HOP) - a transformative journey into the frontiers of peer-to-peer technology. HOP empowers individuals to control and understand the data that shapes our health, communities, and the natural world, all through an open-source coherence and a non-coding graphical interface toolkit called Bento Box.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Hola, creative wanderers! Hold on tight to your hyperspace belts as we take you on a mind-bending journey through the cosmos of Sher, the decentralized streaming platform that's turning the entertainment galaxy on its head. We had the pleasure of interviewing Diego from Geut Studio, one of the brilliant minds behind this project!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Ahoy, fellow explorers of the digital frontier! Prepare yourselves to be transported to the furthest reaches of technological innovation. Get ready to delve into the captivating world of Socket Supply and witness the birth of a project that promises to revolutionize web development as we know it.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Greetings, wanderers and curious minds! We have a treat for you today that will transport you to the outer reaches of the digital communication. Meet Cabal, the peer-to-peer chat platform that will redefine how we connect and collaborate across the universe.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Greetings fellow space travelers and superheroes, hold on to your keyboards because we have a remarkable founder to introduce you to! Mauve, a volunteer in the Dat-ecosystem, has risen through the ranks and founded their own project called Agregore.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We have some exciting news to share. With the help of a grant from the Code for Science and Society, the Dat-ecosystem was able to consolidate its efforts and renew its commitment to the Dat vision. Like a flourishing garden of innovation and creativity, we have not just one main, but many thriving projects. It's a grand adventure, and this time it's a call to all Mad Scientists to lead the charge together with their keyboards firmly in their hands.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
On the 29th of September 2021, we received a grant from CS&S which will help us finish wrapping up organizational details involved in migrating to the new Dat Ecosystem (from the old Dat moniker) and generally bootstraping everything involved in that endeavour. This move will allow us to continue spreading the word about the hyper-* stack and other dat-based p2p projects.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
On the 30th & 31st of July, we had the chance to converge the Dat Community online on a unique two-day event. All actors - from enthusiasts and the curious to core developers and multiple projects’ creators - came together to refresh the whole Dat ecosystem.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
TL;DR: We have an online conference this year: register here!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
The "Dat Protocol" has been renamed to the "Hypercore Protocol" and there is a new organization for governing its tech. The "Dat community" will continue as the collective of teams and projects that have evolved from the original Dat CLI project.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
In our application for the Mozilla Open Source Support award, we wrote:| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Since 2013, Dat Project has led cutting-edge research & development for distributed ledger technology and data syncronization primitives. Everything open source from the first commit, we took Unix-style programming to heart and published everything as composable modules. Releasing early and often meant the toolkit has evolved over time with a healthy bazaar-style ecosystem.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
The Dat Project newsletter is a monthly newsletter highlighting interesting things happening in the Dat community. Let us know if you have something to share! You can support Dat with a recurring donation.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
A look at some of the work I've been doing for Dat| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Hi, all peer-to-peer enthusiasts!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Over the last few years of working on Dat I've seen lots of great posts, articles, thoughtful answers to chat questions, and more. After gathering these slowly it is time to share it!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
How to create a simple collaborative editor on the distributed web| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Let's make it easier to contribute to open source| Dat Ecosystem Blog
How Dat Works is a new guide that explains how computers running Dat communicate with each other to share files. Today is the first release of this documentation and we’re looking for new readers and feedback!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Dat Project ended 2018 with a bang, receiving two grants before year's end! Dat received $100k from Handshake and $70k from Samsung NEXT Stack Zero.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Join Dat project and friends from design, art, science, activism, and more to talk about the future of the web. This event is hosted by MozFest House and will feature talks by Olly Bromham, Mozilla Open Web FellowDarius Kazemi, designer and developer Gina Giampaolo from Rumors, Jon-Kyle Mohr and a participatory workshop.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We are thrilled to announce that Code for Science & Society is welcoming PREreview to our Sponsored Projects Program!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Today we are releasing Anacapa Container, which enables reproducibility of research environment and data across campuses.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We are excited to announce that Dat Project received a $34,000 grant to support Community Building, Protocol Documentation, and Tooling through the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Suddenly it is the end of summer. I'm not sure how this happened, but here we are. We're a little late on this announcement, but please join us for our next community call Friday September 7th at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 1pm Rio de Janero / 4pm UK / 5pm Berlin / 6pm Cape Town / 8pm Dubai / 9:30pm Mumbai (we will let the rest of the globe sleep).| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We hosted our second community call on May 31st with a whopping 7 speakers from our sponsored projects Dat, Stencila, and ScienceFair - as well as speakers from the broader community.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to preserve digital objects like scientific data, digital art, and other artifacts. As many institutions move data to cloud services, preservation costs and complexity are quickly becoming concerns. We are announcing a project to prototype shared infrastructure for digital preservation: Cooperative Preservation Network.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We've been travelingsomuch that we are a little late on the announcement (eek it's next Thursday!) but please mark your calendars for the next Code for Science & Society Quarterly Community Call.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
At the end of April we joined scientists working on Chan Zuckerberg Science's (CZI) Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project to facilitate a session on collaboration for scientists. Improving communities ability to collaborate is a core focus of the Code for Science & Society mission. We facilitate in-person events, share our processes openly, and join community groups like the Open Source Alliance for Open Scholarship and Joint Roadmap for Open Source Tools to advance this mission. Our unique perspect...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Over the last year, we've been developing HyperDB, a distributed scalable database for peer-to-peer collaboration. To demonstrate HyperDB, I built Dat Shopping List — an application that makes grocery shopping fun again!* Along with being a powerful decentralized key-value database, HyperDB will be integrated in Hyperdrive to allow for multi-user collaboration with Dat archives. We are really excited about the potential of this and working on integration over the coming months. Read more to...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Data intensive research depends increasingly on the sharing and reuse of datasets. Unfortunately, collaboration can be stalled by technical roadblocks around sharing large datasets between institutions. Today, sharing files between institutions remains challenging without extensive technical infrastructure or external services.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
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Over the last few years, Dat Project has grown from a tool for data transfer to a wider community building peer-to-peer applications. We are continually impressed and excited about the work being done in our community. As the community has grown its needs have changed; to better support and sustain the Dat community, we'll shift our governance and priorities in these areas:| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We are thrilled for Code for Science & Society to be a host organization for the 2018 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship. Our Open Web Fellow will work on using Dat and peer-to-peer technologies for cultivating a healthier internet for the public good.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Last week we brought together people from across industries including academia, publishing, and technology for our first community call. We will be hosting these calls every quarter to spread ideas, make connections, and learn about each others projects. As a nonprofit, we work to improve access to knowledge across several domains and this call is a perfect venue for facilitating that.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Save the date for the first ever Code for Science & Society Community call!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We held our first board meeting in San Francisco last week where we welcomed two new board members and a board advisor. Our board oversees operations and will support us as we develop sustainable strategic vision for Code for Science & Society (CSS) and the Dat Project.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
As part of the Dat in the Lab project we are working with different campuses in the University of California network. One of our goals is to publish researcher's data, code, and executable Linux container all as files in a version controlled Dat repository. For this to be useful, a person should be able to execute these Linux environments (aka containers) anywhere.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Privacy on the web is an elusive thing. We often think our data is private only to later learn the company we trusted is using it for something we find unsavory (or it gets hacked and released en masse). In our view, this is one of the central shortcomings of the current system — centralized services are the only option for communities. This forces us to trust these services with our data, even if we do not want to or do not know how they are using it. For many, they view this as the cost o...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We announced organizational changes at Dat and Code for Science & Society (CSS) last week. Since that announcement, we have heard from many colleagues, community members, collaborators. We love your emails and tweets of support. Thank you to everyone for your kind words over the last week. We have started to outline our organizational priorities for the new year. And, importantly, Danielle and Joe took Naomi’s advice and set aside time for much-needed self-care and rest.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Last week, a statement was made about abusive, coercive, and controlling behavior by Max Ogden, a core Dat team member and Executive Director of Code for Science & Society (CSS, the non-profit that sponsors Dat). Max has published an independent personal statement about his actions. Max has resigned from all leadership positions. His public community involvement and access to project communication channels will be restricted while we evaluate his long-term involvement in the project. We decid...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
"Is there a Dat Wikipedia mirroring project?" We got this question from @hundredrabbits on Twitter. Distributing Wikipedia over a peer-to-peer network is an awesome idea and perfect use case for Dat. But Max’s answer was revealing:| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Last month we introduced on this blog the research groups at UC Davis and UC Merced that we'll be working with for the Dat in the Lab project. Read on to hear where this project is taking us (hint in the header photo).| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Recently, we launched a new Dat Project website to highlight the Dat community and encourage users to build on Dat. In the short time since then, folks in the Dat community have produced inspiring contributions and exciting applications. Today, we are featuring a three-year-old bug fix and a new decentralized social network!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Here's a short tutorial about how to use the dat command line tool, plus a couple other fun utilities we have written, to automate the backup of files in real time from your local machine to a remote computer over an encrypted Dat connection.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
This week the Dat in the Lab team was hosted by the UC Merced Library for a visit to Mike Dawson’s lab. We learned about jellyfish in Palau’s marine lakes (more here), sea star wasting disease, and an exciting environmental DNA (eDNA) project (part of CALeDNA).| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Now, more than ever, we must fight together for an open web. With the threat of a privatized web, we strive for a true web of commons — a combination of new technologies and a publicly supported, human-driven community. Starting today, the Dat Project website will shift to emphasize the open Dat Protocol and our community, with continued support from our nonprofit, Code for Science & Society. We want everyone to use Dat!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
To kick off Dat in the Lab, our collaboration with UC researchers, Max, Stephen, and Danielle traveled to the University of California at Davis to talk to Nick Santos and others at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS).| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Dat is a secure peer to peer live syncing file sharing protocol for the web. Here's an overview of the cryptography used in the project. Even more technical details can be found in the Dat Paper.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
This is an overview of Karissa's Keynote for 2017 Full Stack Fest's. Feel free to watch the video or scroll down to read the notes.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Over the summer, the Dat project turned four years old. In that time we've moved from a one-person prototype (see the first readme) to a nonprofit-run project. The Dat Project has always been open and public and we now need to become sustainable. We will carry forward with the same scrappy, open approach in our new chapter as a nonprofit company.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We are excited to announce a new project called Dat in the Lab. The project is a collaboration between the us and the California Digital Library (CDL) with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Through this project, we are also happy to welcome Danielle Robinson to the Code for Science & Society team as our Scientific and Partnerships Director. Dat in the Lab will pilot integrating Dat into existing research data management workflows. This $180k grant will support us as we pilot...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
A lot is going on in Dat world! It can be nice to take a step back and see what's we've been building recently. In this post series, we will highlight new Dat-related work and interesting things from our community. There are a few other pieces we've had our head down working on that we're looking forward to showing soon!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Last year, we spoke at Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit and demonstrated Dat as a way to lock open scientific articles, data, and code together in one decentralized archive. The Internet Archive has been publicly calling for decentralized and distributed technology as a way to improve the health of the overall Internet, by locking data open.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
A few weeks ago, after being charmed by the comma llama (an alpaca), the Dat team put our final touches on the Dat protocolwhite paper. Today, we are releasing Dat Desktop, dat command line, and datproject.org with full protocol support! We are seriously excited for this release and believe it is a big step forward in sharing our vision for Dat and the future of public data.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Beginning this week, you can update your Dat to the latest version (13) and get a new slew of features, including a 100x speed improvement.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
This week, we’re excited to release the next version of datproject.org. This public service will preview dat contents in the browser! You can view the dat's file list, number of sources, and download files under 10MB without having dat installed. This is great news for those of us who share data to non-technical users on the regular, or want to share data with the general public. See the release notes here for more details.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Last week half the Dat team met up in Berlin. As a remote team (8 people, 4 countries) we mostly communicate through IRC and work asynchronously. This means that whenever we meet up, we live, eat and hack together most of our waking hours. This is a little summary of what we’ve been up to in the past week.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We got mentioned in the New York Times about our work with the University of California Digital Library and the Data Refuge efforts. Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/science/donald-trump-data-rescue-science.html| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Today we’re announcing the release of Dat Desktop, a peer to peer data sharing app built for humans.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Over the last few months we have been optimizing and improving the Dat command line tool as well as underlying dependencies, such as Hyperdrive, to prepare for publishing datasets on our Dat registry. We’ve released a preview of this new command line tool you can install it now!| Dat Ecosystem Blog
Vendor Lock-In #| Dat Ecosystem Blog
International Data Week in September 2016 brought together three events, SciDataCon, the International Data Forum, and the Research Data Alliance 8th plenary. Joe Hand from the Dat team attended the conference.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
This week in Reykjavik, Iceland I attended PIDapalooza, the first community conference dedicated to the topic of persisent identifiers (PIDs) for the scholarly web. As a relative newcomer to this community I wanted to share my experience diving in head first into this subject.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
The data distribution toolkit has become a mixed bag of tools that require different skill sets and are applied for different purposes. Git, for example, is a tool that works effectively for governing data (if you learn how to use it), but it quickly becomes unwieldy for larger datasets. BitTorrent is a great solution for distributing large datasets across many machines, but torrent files are static, and can become a hassle to use with changing data. BitTorrent Sync, DropBox, and Google Drive...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We’re happy to announce that we’ve received a $420,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a new project that we’re calling “PublicBits.” Our goal is to collect the world’s open data sources, to make their historical data available through a dataset registry at PublicBits.org. This “dataset of datasets” will become accessible through a free, decentralized, redundant, open network, inspired by BitTorrent. PublicBits.org will use Dat, our flagship project, ...| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We’ve been working hard on a new implementation of the dat command-line tool. You can try it out now (and remember to let us know if things break):| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We have some exciting news to share about Dat: We’re working on a 1.0 release! It’s not out just yet, but you can try what we have so far by checking out the master branch on GitHub or with npm install dat@next -g| Dat Ecosystem Blog
After a long year of alpha testing, which started in August of las year, we are excited to announce our launch of a new phase of dat. Beta starts now.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
The first code went into dat one year ago, on August 17th 2013. Today, after a year of work, we are really excited to release the first major version of dat along with a new website.| Dat Ecosystem Blog
We’ve got two happy pieces of news! The first is that board member Max Ogden is transitioning to being an employee, as we start to house and support Dat, Max’s data| blog.dat-ecosystem.org
Hi, I'm Darius Kazemi and I'm CS&S's Mozilla Fellow. Here are some of the things that I've been researching, building, and planning around the decentralized internet. In learning about these three protocols, I now see them fulfilling different, complementary roles.| blog.dat-ecosystem.org