Library Cataloging
BitTorrent is an often neglected or maligned P2P service. It is often characterized as a place to share illegal copies of movies and music. However, the tool is very useful in distributing large files to large numbers of people. I've often thought MPOW should distribute new sections of our Lunar Atlases as torrents. When we put new collections of images or maps up, our server is struggling to cope with the requests. Vendors could distribute updates to their software as a torrent. Later this week or over the weekend I'll be posting a trial run of my presentation on Free MARC Tools on both OurMedia as an MP3 and Prodigem as a torrent.Now Prodigem has made this announcement, that may make BitTorrent more mainstream
- Open Office And Bittorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent...
- Marc Records
Ed Summers has "created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records)": http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent...
- Bittorrent
BitTorrent is often seen as nothing more than a tool for stealing copy-protected material. In reality, P2P networking is a powerful tool for moving large files. Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox have already agreed to use it to distribute content....
- Bandwidth
At times we take big hits on our system. For instance, when we recently put up scans of 100 lunar maps and hundreds of folks decided to download them all at the same time. Now demand has tapered off and things are back to normal. I've been an advocate...
- Free Marc Tools
I've posted an MP3 of my talk, Free MARC Tools, to be given at the TLA District 8 Fall Meeting, October 1. It is also available as a torrent, if anyone is using BitTorrent. If you listen, I'd like to hear any suggestions for improvement. The an...
Library Cataloging
BitTorrent
BitTorrent is an often neglected or maligned P2P service. It is often characterized as a place to share illegal copies of movies and music. However, the tool is very useful in distributing large files to large numbers of people. I've often thought MPOW should distribute new sections of our Lunar Atlases as torrents. When we put new collections of images or maps up, our server is struggling to cope with the requests. Vendors could distribute updates to their software as a torrent. Later this week or over the weekend I'll be posting a trial run of my presentation on Free MARC Tools on both OurMedia as an MP3 and Prodigem as a torrent.Now Prodigem has made this announcement, that may make BitTorrent more mainstream
We've launched the Prodigem BitTorrent API. You can now easily add BitTorrent capabilities to any web based or web capable application and let Prodigem take care of all the creation, seeding and management of your torrents. If you're not familiar with what an API is, it basically means that Prodigem is now providing a way for external software coders out there to build in all of the features of Prodigem directly into the software and web-services they maintain by just relying on Prodigem to do all of the heavy lifting. Our API implementation is REST based.BitTorrent
- Open Office And Bittorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent...
- Marc Records
Ed Summers has "created a bittorrent of the concatenated MARC files donated to the Internet Archive by Scriblio (7,030,372 records)": http://inkdroid.org/torrents/lc-bib.torrent...
- Bittorrent
BitTorrent is often seen as nothing more than a tool for stealing copy-protected material. In reality, P2P networking is a powerful tool for moving large files. Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox have already agreed to use it to distribute content....
- Bandwidth
At times we take big hits on our system. For instance, when we recently put up scans of 100 lunar maps and hundreds of folks decided to download them all at the same time. Now demand has tapered off and things are back to normal. I've been an advocate...
- Free Marc Tools
I've posted an MP3 of my talk, Free MARC Tools, to be given at the TLA District 8 Fall Meeting, October 1. It is also available as a torrent, if anyone is using BitTorrent. If you listen, I'd like to hear any suggestions for improvement. The an...