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P2P meets BitTorrent

I see that 'legal' P2P service Red Swoosh is making overtures to BitTorrent users. This got me to wondering how their model might be threatened by RSS based News Aggregators like Shrook and NetNewsWire making the logical connection to aggregating RSS video feeds as a content-on-demand system. High profile competitors to Red Swoosh such as Kontiki must also be looking over their shoulder.

Surprise, Pixar moves to G5s and OSX

Well well well. Who would have thought it? Pixar has stated that they will be moving their production unit to Apple G5s running OSX. The fact that Steve Jobs is CEO of both companies is just a conincidence, right? (Check out the Reality Distortion Field!)? :-) With the new Xserve G5 now out, the Xserve RAID in place and Xgrid software evolving nicely, it was just a matter of time...

You might like to check out Virginia Tech's G5 super computer story - currently the world's third fastest supercomputer at a fraction of the cost of other supercomputers. They have now dumped their production line G5s in favour of the G5 Xserves to save power!

Ye olde RSS & BitTorrent debate

The more I dig the further back in time I go! I stumbled across Adam Curry's reference to an earlier conversation with David Winer.

RSS, BitTorrent & Tivo

Seems the idea of linking RSS feeds to BitTorrent and on to TiVo like boxes is starting to catch on...

Gary Burd, Steve Gillmor and Scott Raymond are all talking about it.

But Andrew Grumet is actually doing it!

You might also like to check out MythTV, "a homebrew PVR project" created by Isaac Richards - looks cool!