Faster Feeds Using FeedTree Peer-To-Peer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 20, 2006 @06:49AM from the instant-gratification-generation dept.

dsandler writes "Researchers at Rice University have just released version 0.7 of FeedTree, a peer-to-peer system for distributing Web feeds faster. Instead of polling feeds independently, FeedTree users cooperate to share news updates using multicast in Pastry, a scalable p2p overlay network. FeedTree reduces the update delay for existing RSS and Atom feeds to a few minutes without putting extra stress on the webserver (anyone who's ever been temporarily banned by Slashdot's RSS feed knows this is a real concern). Feed publishers can also choose to push digitally signed updates for immediate, tamper-proof delivery to subscribers. The client software (download) runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows, and works with any desktop feed reader."

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Re:Rice made Pastry, too. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-20 07:32 · Score: -1, Troll

As a non-Rice student, I would like to point out you're all over Dan's nuts. Wipe that crap off your nose, and quit patting yourself on the back so hard for going to Rice. My university did lots of cool stuff too, but that has nothing to do with me. It's like the water boy for the Steelers bragging about his Superbowl ring.