Archive for the ‘BitTorrent’ Category

Next steps for BitTorrent

Early this year, I put my stake in the ground and said: “There’s no doubt that when we write the year-end pieces for 2006, BitTorrent is going to be at or near the top of the list of technologies that made a difference.” I stand by the prediction.

Recent milestones
Here are a few milestones, small [...]

Continue reading »

Yahoo game-changers for 2006

Yesterday I participated in a Yahoo management offsite at the spectacular Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Half Moon Bay. They invited two outsiders, myself and Om Malik, to come discuss the new ideas of 2006 with them. They asked what I thought would be the game-changers. They were interested not only in ways they could change the [...]

Continue reading »

Easing into BitTorrent

In a previous post the comments were all over the map, but I figure that’s because I didn’t explain well-enough what I was looking to do. So I’m going to break the project up into bite-size chunks, just play along with me, and help if you can. Okay? Thanks.
The first little project is to [...]

Continue reading »

Industrial-strength BitTorrent

Okay, it’s time for me to run a real BitTorrent system, not the mickey-mouse stuff that’s good for one or two torrents. I want to host hundreds, and then thousands of files that are reliably accessible over BitTorrent. There must be a way to do it, what is it?
The files are all MP3s, they’re the [...]

Continue reading »