Posts Tagged ‘web2.0’

Torrentspy’s New Features are Live

After a couple of weeks of finetuning, and months of hard work, Torrentspy.com finally launched their new features.
An overview of the new stuff can be found over here. The redesign was planned to go live earlier this month, but better late than never.
The new features add a social layer to torrentspy, with a torrent [...]

Towards a RSS 2.0 BitTorrent Standard

SqrtBoy published a whitepaper on discussing his ideas on how BitTorrent webmasters should design their BitTorrent RSS feeds.
SqrtBoy is known for his work on Torrent Trader Lite, VBTT, IPBTT and other several BitTorrent tracker php/mysql scripts. It is great to see that someone is proposing a standard for BitTorrent rss feeds.
Every webmaster [...]

Bram Cohen on the Web2.0 Show

BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen was interviewed by Chris and Josh on the Web2.0 Show.

Bram talks about BitTorrent’s deal with the MPAA and Warner Bros. And about the past and the future of his amazing filesharing protocol. No breaking news, but it’s a good podcast.
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Allpeers Review

Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that let you share pictures, music and videos within Firefox. The extension makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox.
The extension is currently in the Beta-testing phase.
Dmitri Popov, one of the Allpeers Beta testers wrote a reviewed the extension om NewsForge. He concludes:
there are some [...]

The Grokster Case: One Year Later

The Grokster decision made filesharing companies vulnerable. The court ruled that they can be sued if they encourage people to share copyrighted material was a great victory for Hollywood, and was believed to be the end of filesharing by some.
But now, one year later, peer-to-peer technologies flourish more than ever.
P2P traffic is rapidly [...]

Allpeers launched first BETA

Allpeers, the BitTorrent extension for Firefox is sending out invitations for their BETA program. Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox.

Podtropolis is about to change

Podtropoplis is the leading Ipod torrent site. Like they say “its grown from camp to village to bustling metropolis in no time”. Ipod formatted torrents are getting more and more popular every day, so there sure is a market for these content specific sites. Podtropolis is providing the service for a while now and its [...]