Category Archives: p2p

Web 2.0 Meets the Bit Torrent Generation

Web1.0 Web2.0 sensibilities have merged with the Bit Torrent generation as Universal and Spiralfrog have joined forces to deliver free digital music — that is ad-supported. In a variety of reports around the ‘net, this new service, which launches this December, will have access to Universal’s entire catalogue of music which includes many popular [...]

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AllPeers — p2p Hype or p2p Nirvana?

AllPeers has been hailed as the “Killer-app” for Firefox. How much is hype and how much is reality? Here’s a review with a list of resources.

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Yeah, Baby, Yeah! Pando Reaches One Millionth Install

Pando hits its 1 millionth install — seems like I’m not the only one loving this fast little file sharing app.

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Portforwarding tricks redux

So on my machine, portforwarding is kind of a must to get the p2p factory working right.
If its not done right, there is a noticable difference … d/l rates can go from 5kbs –> 100kbs if done right.
Currently using uTorrent: great, because its small footprint (compared to azureus), and ease of use.
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Pando is great

http://www.pando.com — one of the new web2.0-ish personal p2p services, allows you to send large bulky files pretty effortlessly.  However, it requires a small download-of-a-client.  Apparently, it works by (I think) two non-competing ways; both the sender AND giant “telenodes” can act as a ’sender’ of sorts of the file.  I think the telenode will [...]

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