I worked this week on getting the website set up for the Newswire project. Newswire is a system for collaborative real-time news delivery. It uses peer-to-peer techniques (epidemics, small worlds clustering, etc.) to construct a collaborative infrastructure that can guarantee delivery of essential news even in the presence of overload such as on 9/11/2001, or large scale internet failures. The screenshots are now also available. Below is my high-level summary of what the Newswire tries to accomplish.
Wow. The screenshots look impressive. This could be the collaborative killer app, kids.