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Introduction

PI (Personal/Publishable Information) Desktop is a desktop software to maintain and share personal information.

The objective of this software is help people to publish themself to the internet world, find and keep touch with other people who them interested in.

Using this software, users can maintain their personal information and share some of them ( which they want ), via p2p network with each other, which include articles, diaries, albums, personal web site, and favorite web link, e.t. And also, user can comment on information published by other people.

It focus on information, not file/media like most of existing pop p2p shareing softwares.

It is completely free to keep and publish any information you wanted.

It is built on Java/ Eclipse RCP platform, and can run on any OS which supports Java&Eclipse.

It is built on JXTA p2p network, which help user acess each other even when behind Firewall/NAT.

Q/A

Q: What difference between PI Desktop and other p2p applications?
A: PI focus on information sharing. Most popular p2p application (such as edonkey, BT....)focus on file/media sharing, like video, audio...

• PI supports full text searching, which make sure what you download is really you wanted.
• PI recommends non-anonymous sharing, which make contacting easy between author and readers.
• PI manage relations between informations. which make your discussion as clear as using a forum.

Q: What difference between PI Desktop and other Personal Information System or CMS?
A: Simply, you can share your information with others. And enjoy those offered by others.

Q: I have a Blog/online album. What can I benefit from moveing to PI?
A: Blog is great. But it is limited. Using PI, you get these features blog does not offer:

• Saving time for uploading files.
• You get unlimited content size and unlimited content type.
• You are completely free to design your content.
• You can define acessability of each piece of information.
• You will never move from a one web site to another and force your readers move, which often happen when you find the blog service is not satisfying.
• You can easly get feed back from your readers and keep in touch with them.
• It is free.

Q: Which information types PI suppot?
A: Personal home page, Articles, Diaries, Albums, RSS feeds, Bookmarks, Reminders will be supported in initial version. Other types will be easly added in follow-up version.

Q: What is the status of this project?
A: Please go to a forum thread and check.

Q: How to post my own question?
A: Please go to user forum. Developers will check this forum, and if any question is popular, it will be move to this page.

Contact

To contact me, please use maillist or forum.