Diego Doval released beta of CleverCactus Share recently.  It's not a mindblowing invention, but a useful rendition of a private P2P file sharing network tool.  It's missing a key feature though: sharing needs and wants.  But then no P2P software has this feature yet so I hope CleverCactus Share becomes the first to implement this breakthrough feature.

A network of people can cover far more ground than a single person.  Each member sharing what they have is good, but not as good as having everyone knowing the needs of others and everyone searching together.  I had this strain of ideas for a long time BTW, long enough to get and then abandon groupsearch.com domain.

Wishlist allows you do that by having each person 'share' not only what they have, but also share what they need or want.  UI-wise, each 'wish' looks much like a file and are placed in the shared object list.  Others can download it to their own share list to 'share' the interest.  When a member finds the data, they drop it into the 'wish' object to 'fullfill' it.  Members who shared the 'wish' will automatically have their wish come true.

FYI, this post started off as an April 1st joke but I soon realized that the concept of sharing 'ahead of time' is actually useful.  So the joke was on me instead.  🙂