BitLet Selected As Finalist In 2008 Webware 100 Awards
Written by enigmax on March 04, 2008BitLet is a web-based client which allows BitTorrent sharing without a torrent client being installed on your machine. Now, in recognition of this innovative system, the editors at CNET Webware.com have nominated BitLet as a finalist in the Webware 100 Awards, 2008.
We first introduced BitLet back in July 2007.
BitLet is a web-based Java applet which makes it possible to download .torrent files on a computer that doesn’t have a BitTorrent client installed, which is fantastic for people who either can’t, or don’t know how to, install additional software. The site isn’t just clear and functional, it’s incredibly easy to use too – simply enter the url of the .torrent file you wish to use and sit back and wait for your chosen material to download.
In recognition of this innovative site, the editors over at CNET Webware.com have chosen BitLet to be a finalist in the Webware 100 Awards 2008. This is quite an achievement considering the heavyweights who came out on top in 2007, such as Bebo, Gmail, MySpace, Wikipedia and YouTube. BitLet is nominated in the Security and Utility division.
For the 2008 contest, a total of 4,600 Web 2.0 services were nominated by Webware readers and from these, a lucky 300 finalists were selected, including BitLet, of course.
Other BitTorrent related services were also nominated. BitTorrent.com itself was nominated along with Pando, and the Firefox based AllPeers. Sadly, AllPeers bit the dust so will no longer be included.
Alessandro and Daniele of BitLet told TorrentFreak: “We are really proud of this achievement. Being chosen as one of the finalists is a huge acknowledgment for an application like BitLet. When we started to develop the applet we wanted to support BitTorrent content distribution by creating an extremely simple tool to allow anyone to download files with just one click. We may not have achieved that precise objective (yet :P) but Webware’s nomination, in addition to the good feedback we receive from our users, encourages us to keep working on new features and improving the existing ones.”
Indeed, BitLet has been evolving since its introduction, adding features such as the BitLet ‘Upload‘ section which adds torrent creation to the service, the music streaming feature which is also used by Mininova, and the ‘bookmarklet‘ which allows the user to inject a direct download link into torrent search engines.
BitLet’s features add up to one of the most innovative BitTorrent related services, and a worthy addition to the Webware 100 finalists list.
If you’d like to vote for BitLet -30 million BitTorrent users voting should do the job- you can do so right up until March 31, by clicking here.
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18 Responses
That’s cool I suppose.
Bitlet is for sissys, I will sail my ships with Utorrent across the seas.
Its a bit basic at the moment and ill stick with utorrent. maybe look at it again in a year or so and see where its at..
suppose your bitlet torrent download is finished.
Will you: A. Close the browser
B. Seed until your ratio is 1.0
?
bitlet is terrible, lets be honest
Good thing I can vote for 3 services. Otherwise my only vote would have gone to Amazon S3.
Just tried it, but still looking for the reason why it is nominated …..
It’s good for people to leech off the bittorrent community whilst at college, work or uni with high speed servers. Kill it. Block it. Just get rid of it!
Actually, when I think about it, it’s not bad for private sites, only public. If private sites were to encorporate this java applet into their own site then it makes it possible for the users to use high speed servers to serve the community. They will ned the ratio here so leeching it’s a worry.
pro’s and con’s
Pros,
Easy to use, no installs, no jumbling .torrent files, and always the best speeds.
Con’s,
Too easy to use, leecher magnet, too many flaws were the person downloading the torrent can make it so they are invisible and their ratio is never changed.
It allows you to listen to the music you are about to download first to verify quality and fidelity very quickly through streaming. Then you can download the whole thing to listen offline in the knowledge that you have downloaded a quality release, and seed it till your ratio is 2.0 or 3.0 or whatever you have set it at.
Now they just need FLAC support, and all will be well.
Congrats Bitlet from Afghanistan :)
Thank!
Even more leeches, exactly what we need …. :’(
Why all you guys keep complaining about leeches? I can’t see the point here: Bitlet stops seeding when the I close the download window.
Isn’t that the same thing Azureus, uTorrent and other clients do?
I’ve never been able to get Bitlet to work. I just brushed it off figuring it’s “experimental” label was probably accurate.
Unfortunately, Webware does not have a “file sharing” category in its awards listing. (apparently ignoring that the top SIX most popular downloads on Sourceforge are all P2P applications)
Too bad Seeqpod.com is not even listed.
My vote for best web app goes to Jake9’s Player ( http://testforum.110mb.com or http://jake9.exofire.net ) which is a webplayer for directly playing [streaming] divx/xvid video files stored on many popular file-hosting sites like MegaUpload.com
good innovation! Im sure it will continue to be developed nicely :)
Requires java so you can either download java or download standalone uTorrent.
Encourage leeching? You can do that with any ap. Many people have no choice either. If they did have a choice there’s no reason they wouldn’t happily share. If this thing uploads at the same time then leeching wouldn’t be a problem. Depends on the share ratio and if it causes bandwidth problems to some. Does this make any sense? To me anyway.
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