11 month ago
nelson : OiNK blog - Not positive, but it looks like a blog from the folks who ran OiNK
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11 month ago
deusx : Navigating With Feedback From Fellow Drivers - New York Times - "There’s this long chain of cars up ahead. What if the cars could talk to one another?"
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11 month ago
Simon Willison : Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway - Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway. “Why are some people getting In Rainbows from P2P rather than the band’s site? Probably because they find P2P easier to use.”
deusx : Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » Radiohead Album Available for Free, But Fileshared Anyway - "Why are some people getting In Rainbows from P2P rather than the band’s site? Probably because they find P2P easier to use."
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12 month ago
Linkorama : DRM vendors are pushing the impossible - There are some fundamental truths in the universe. We cannot travel faster than light, and we cannot make a copy protection system that is uncrackable. The only question is: how long will paying customers stay when the companies they're buying from treat
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13 month ago
deusx : What happened on August 16 - Skype Blogs - "The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update."
Simon Willison : Skype: What happened on August 16 - Skype: What happened on August 16. Windows Update caused a massive global reboot, which destabilised Skype’s peer to peer network due to the flood of log-in requests.
Eric Meyer : What happened on August 16 - Wait, doesn't that make Microsoft liable for the launching of a DDoS attack?
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13 month ago
Simon Willison : Thoughts on the Social Graph - Thoughts on the Social Graph. I think social network portability will happen within the next year.
Linkorama : Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph - Goal 1: Ultimately make the social graph a community asset, utilizing the data from all the different sites, but not depending on any company or organization as "the" central graph owner.
Andy Baio : Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph - this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful
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15 month ago
deusx : Technology Review: Mapping the Internet - "Routing traffic through peer-to-peer networks could stave off Internet congestion, according to a new study."
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18 month ago
WillPate : Foundphotos - Photograhps found by searching P2P networks for common digital camera file names. An amazing peek into people's lives.
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20 month ago
jimray : Adobe and its P2P Ambitions - Flash Player X, now with video conferencing (it could happen...)
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21 month ago
deusx : Why piracy is still more common than legal video downloads - "P2P clearly gives you more bang for your buck"
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23 month ago
jimray : Xtorrent. Torrents for Mac OS X. - Wicked cool looking OS X torrent app
Jon Hicks : Xtorrent site - While a lot of developers use a standard “This is a Mac App” template design, David Watanabe has set a style for stylish, fluid layouts. Gorgeous!
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23 month ago
cameron : Message to blockbuster: I heart P2P - Taken in northern Spain. So awesome.
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24 month ago
deusx : Paper Airplane and The Two Way Web - "A Collaborative and Decentralized World Wide Web"
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Okkervill River's Will Sheff on file-sharing, bootlegs, and digital music - he worked at Audiogalaxy and has seen this from multiple sides; you can hear the internal conflict [via]
jimray : Okkervil River's Will Sheff on file sharing - Really nicely put
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26 month ago
Andy Baio : Red Swoosh relaunches with free ad-supported client - their best feature is that they act as a mirror for all your files; unlike BitTorrent, no need to run a local server
Rod Begbie : Red Swoosh - free your links - Theoretically seamless and easy P2P file sharing. Add "http://edn.redswoosh.net/" to the front of a URL, and it'll go through a P2P client instead of being served up by your HTTP server. Kind of similar to what OpenCola were doing in 2001. #
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27 month ago
wearehugh : [howto] General 6.06 - Moblock (peerguardian linux alternative) - Ubuntu Forums
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27 month ago
wearehugh : [howto] Kde 6.06 - HOWTO: Install KTorrent 2.0beta1 - Ubuntu Forums
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29 month ago
gleuschk : RedHotChiliPeppers.com fleamail.journal - if you down load it now off one of these file sharing sites that will break my heart it will break john frusciante's heart it will break anthony kiedis's heart and it will break the heart of chad smith
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : Allmydata.com - Distributed P2Pish secure backups. You give up 10Gb of your hard drive, for the rights to distribute 1Gb of your files across hundreds of peers. Sadly Windows-only, and there's no way to tweak how much *bandwidth* you're willing to give up, but could co [via] #
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30 month ago
Rod Begbie : Tribler - Interesting attempt to add more social context (eg. trust, recommendations) to BitTorrent donwnloads. [via] #
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31 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Programmes | Newsnight | A bit of BitTorrent bother - "This proposition brought us so much sh*t that it had to be continued on the next fan." Almost shockingly frank discussion of the BBC and BitTorrent - funny too.
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31 month ago
joshua : Pastry - A scalable, decentralized, self-organizing and fault-tolerant substrate for peer-to-peer applications
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32 month ago
Nelson Minar : Hamachi: P2P VPN - Tunnels a network via UDP, can mediate NAT on both ends
deusx : Hamachi : Stay Connected - "With Hamachi you can organize two or more computers with an Internet connection into their own virtual network for direct secure communication. "
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33 month ago
Andy Baio : TechCrunch on AllPeers - outstanding looking Firefox extension for sharing files privately with BitTorrent
jimray : TechCrunch » AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App†- Create private bittorrent networks in your browser
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