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Mining the Torrent

A VC: Bit Torrents (Continued).  This Scoble spotting relates an experience finding out how to hook up P2P software and successfully use Bit Torrents to share and play multimedia performance files.

I am queezy about this particular P2P activity, and fascinated by the operability that is showing up in available, typically open-sourced software.

The Azureus client has nice agent-like behavior, especially with regard to maintaining presence and dealing with long transfers that may be interrupted by any participant being disconnected.  The package finds a way to continue at the next opportunity.  That's nifty and should go into any requirements for this kind of software.  Azurues itself is developed in Java as a GPL'd SourceForge project.  It's the second-most active project on SourceForge at the moment.

A VC also notices how many Windows Shareware Audio tools there are.  There's a literal stack of them in open-source land too, and the Java audio support is interesting as a platform.

All of this is grist for nfoWare, especially ideas about operability and interoperability.  Having a truly-componentized approach should be fascinating, right along with the componentization for blending interactive communication, collaboration and publishing.
posted by orcmid at 6/6/2004 12:13:05 PM