Today, I’m happy to bring you BeamItOver, the latest project from BitTorrent Torque Labs. It has the same functionality as some other Torque Labs projects, but it has been designed from the ground up to bring the inherently social activity of sharing files to where the people are. It’s a Facebook app that aims to make sharing your…
Fact Over Fiction Dept.: the truth about BitTorrent and piracy. Knowledge Preservation Dept.: artists whose work enters the public domain in 2013. The Final Frontier Dept.: open-sourcing space with Copenhagen Suborbitals. The Visible Web Dept.: a Big Internet Museum. Not open during Brazilian Carnival. The End of the World Dept.: the New Math of End Times. A Message from Us Dept.: What…
It’s that time of the year (y’know, when you throw money at 501c3s to reduce your tax burden). Internet Archive has a generous donor pledging 3x whatever people donate until 12/31, so donating $1 turns into $4 of storage space. IA is kind of a big deal, and is also constantly in need of more…
Well, does it? We hear this question all the time. We hear we’ve killed film, the radio star, and the content industry. We hear we’re the web’s dark matter, and the Internet’s seedy underbelly. We are not. We are scientists, engineers, developers and designers committed to building a better Internet. We are photographers, musicians, writers…