I know that both Whisper and Swarm were is early prototype stages, with Whisper already being included in the geth client.
What is the current status of these project? I know Swarm has been largely superseded by ipfs, but there was a plan to monetize it. Is that still being worked on?
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whisper is part both the go and c++ clients. It is a fully functional implementation.
swarm is being actively developed by the go-team. See the Devcon1 talk for the big picture. See the issues labeled 'swarm' on github.
POC1 will be public and integration to Mist will start after some more serious network integration testing.
Work towards using IPFS as alternative DHT underlying swarm has started, but nothing conclusive as yet.
An earlier writeup of bandwidth and storage incentivisation is online, an updated paper is coming out soon.
UPDATE: http://swarm-gateways.net/