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Wired: Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 16, 2004

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Is there a way to publish videos, games and other enormous
files online without breaking the bank on bandwidth fees or driving
downloaders mad with delays?

“A demo publishing system launched Friday by a popular
programmer and blogger merges two of this season’s hottest tech
fads–RSS news syndication and BitTorrent file sharing–to create a
cheap publishing system for what its author calls ‘big media
objects.’ The hybrid system is meant to eliminate both the
publisher’s need for fat bandwidth, and the consumer’s need to wait
through a grueling download…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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