I installed IPFS on my laptop a few weeks ago and have been playing around with it. The fact that it's completely compatible with HTTP, and is planned to work be completely compatible with DNS (and Namecoin) makes me think this has a better chance of success in the near term than some of the other projects with similar goals. There's also filecoin, described by IPFS founder Juan Benet as a "sister protocol", which incentivizes seeding others' content. (Unfortunately, there's nothing more than a white paper for filecoin yet.) Benet mentioned in yesterday's thread on HN that "very soon, you wont need to install anything to use IPFS. it will "just work" with js on today's browsers." Exciting! I love that there are a handful of projects going after the distributed web.