WASTE is a tool for chat and IRC, with no more or less suport for filesharing than AIM. This is the most likely reason that AOL came down hard on the project.

As Clay Shirky pointed out in his ZapMail essay, business models for wirless networking are elusive. Now we're seeing the first signs of this as the big companies start rolling out larger wireless networks.

With these final thoughts about the attendees and side topics I'll wrap up my coverage of this years Emerging Tech conference.

Clay Shirky destills the vast quanities of useful knowledge from social software, group dynamics and human interaction into a packed keynote speech at ETech.

Rendezvous and Hydra -- a powerful combination for taking notes at ETech, and the ironies of using social software during a presentation on social software.

This article on Boycott-RIAA.org is a proposal for a P2P net that 100% consists of creative commons-licensed materials. A good idea!

Cory's comments on Digital Restrictions Management in this morning's panel discussion puts DRM's social effects into perspective.

The first ETech tutorial Laws and Emerging Technology put a number of current legal issues on the table for Emergent Tech geeks to consider. Fred von Lohman and Rajiv Patel help sort out the pertinent issues.

The speed of warfare as conducted by the US military has implications well beyond the battlefield.

FlashForward SF Day 3 was highlighted by a solid line-up of technical sessions, plus some mind-blowing artistic achievement.