More on RSS and BitTorrent
A good article on Salon that talks about using RSS as a mechanism to stream BitTorrent feeds. We have talked about this before (here, here, and here), but it's nice to see the community growing before our eyes.
What I really like about this is that it's using each technology appropriately. Use RSS as the "notification" mechanism, with enough meta-data around the content to be able to discriminate and select items that are desired. Use BitTorrent as the large file distribution system. Create a custom client (in this case, Buttress) that uses both of these technologies, but pushes them down to the transport layer. Very nice.
Comments
RSS is now build in to most of the popular bittorrent clients go to download.com's review of all the clients and find which client is best for you.
Posted by: Torrent | July 10, 2006 08:48 AM