Tue, 16 Mar 2004

Speed Meets Feed in Download Tool

An innovative use of RSS, to be sure. It still seems to be that it would require an "always on" connection to the 'Net, but it would appear to solve some serious UI issues with huge downloads. I may have to play with it a bit.

Big files are a pain for sender and receiver. A programmer proposes a slick solution: a marriage of RSS and BitTorrent. By Paul Boutin.

(link) [Wired News]

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