What is the Ideapool?

The Ideapool is a peer-to-peer network for the distribution of cryptographically signed XML documents.

Documents are inserted into the pool and clients can search for documents based on their semantic characteristics. A blog aggregator might search for blog posts signed by a particular author or organization. Comments on the blog post need not be entered on the author’s site, they can be inserted into the pool and retrieved by interested readers.

Information is easy to create, but difficult to suppress. Unlike Freenet which focuses on anonymity, Ideapool focuses on allowing the identity verification of the creator of information.

Ideapool is also the Masters thesis topic of Will Holcomb, the founder of the Department of Happiness, and the first step in his plan to save the world.