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Google touts real-time RSS transplant
What’s all the PubSubHubbub? Web 2.0 NY Google is trumpeting a new messaging protocol it insists on calling PubSubHubbub.…
Continue reading »SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP
On the Chromium blog , Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY (“speedy”). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), researchers at Google think they can do better.
Continue reading »Google Chrome web protocol seeks 2x download speeds
HTTP gets SPDY Updated Google is developing a new application layer protocol designed to speed the movement of stuff across the web. It’s called SPDY, pronounced, yes, speedy.… ?
Continue reading »File Sharers Adapt. How?
A recent report (PDF) by DtecNet, a firm that recommends itself as “ a market leader in supplying our customers with specialized software solutions to track and prevent piracy on their digital content and online business,” says that transfers through the Bit Torrent protocol dropped almost 80% after TPB's Swedish ISP cut off its bandwidth forced by legal orders. According to the same study the solution by most adopted by users was finding other BitTorrent “tracker” sites to provide for their p2p needs. The leading names appear as follows – OpenBitTorrent, Denis Stalker, tracker.publicbt.com and pow7.com – which the report says, “now comprise nearly 70 percent of all BitTorrent traffic.” It seems that the Pirate Bay played an important role in promoting this solution – it brought changes to its software so it would be able to track files via OpenBitTorrent.
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