Social Peer-to-peer for Social People

With increasing amounts of information digitally available, computerized searching has become a commodity. Typical computer search services work by creating a searchable, central index equivalent to the Yellow Pages. Humans will often use such central indexes, but we are also likely to exploit our social networks. We can directly contact someone we believe has knowledge about the resources we seek. This social network is built and maintained by socializing with and talking about other people. In this paper we present how we use a social Peer-to-Peer search infrastructure, The Socialized.Net, to give computers a rudimentary social network. This allows applications to work in a more humanly natural way, seamlessly integrating centralized services and distributed, direct contact. Specifically, we demonstrate applications within Instant Messaging, Shared bookmarks and Distributed BitTorrent key files and how The Socialized.Net makes the creation of such applications much easier than other currently used approaches.