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 rating system and user defined attributes. Torrentspy also added a comment rating system to separate the rants from the useful info.

The new features are inspired by sites like digg.com, and are web2.0 compliant. The popular TV directory will return later in a slightly modified form.

Have a look.

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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 probably has his own thoughts about how the perfect rss feed would look, but this document is definitely a step forward.

SqrtBoy told TorrentFreak:

I have found that each rss feed was different from one site to another, and from a BitTorrent script to another. The multiplication and organization of different feeds formats was leading to confusion and was making it difficult to read in rss clients, and also some other feed indexing applications. The purpose of this document is to give some recommendations to webmasters on how a rss 2.0 BitTorrent related feed should be designed, so maybe we can see a standard appearing.

I think it is extremely important to have a proper standard for BitTorrent rss feeds, especially since the number of people that get their latest torrents though feedreaders, media players and BitTorrent clients is growing.

Using the same feed style will only benefit the usability of BitTorrent & rss, and their implementation in feed based TV players like Democracy, Fireant and IM.

BitTorrent RSS 2.0 Feed Specifications White Paper

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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.

link

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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 kinks in the AllPeers extension that must be sorted out before the public release (most notably, re-installing the extension requires a manual reset of your account at AllPeers’ end), the software looks very promising, indeed.

Let’s wait and see…

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But now, one year later, peer-to-peer technologies flourish more than ever.

P2P traffic is rapidly growing, and new services and implementations appear on a weekly basis.

Tom McInerney, co-founder of Guba.com, a video site that just teamed up with Warner Bros. to distribute TV shows and movies said in a Mercury News article:

“Shutting down peer-two-peer networks was like taking a half-course of antibiotics every six months. It just led to the evolution of more decentralized networks that are more efficient and more difficult to shut down.”

He’s right, peer-to-peer traffic is extremely adaptive, flexible and therefore hard to stop. The internet evolves, boosted by the web2.0 hype and clearing the path for even more social networking oriented p2p platforms.

BigChampagne Chief Executive Eric Garland stated:

“The social networking aspect of the Internet is continuing to blossom and no landmark court decision or watershed event changes that.”

I predict a bright future for filesharing and online media…

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As a result, this first phase will be very limited and reserved to only a small number of people. As time goes on, we will invite more and more testers but what it means is that even if you have filled-in our form you might not receive your personal invitation for some time.

You can still sign up for the BETA program

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Podtropolis is asking for donations to keep up with the constantly increasing demand for iPod torrents.

increasing traffic?

But anyway, they deserve the support. The new design plans are great. Really true to the Ipod philosophy: We can sell everything, if it looks good.

See for yourself!

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