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Travis Kalanick on File Sharing with RedSwoosh

There’s no question that sharing audio and video files consumes massive amounts of bandwidth, both for downloading and uploading of files. BitTorrent remains the most popular way to share files among peers, but it’s not without flaws. The upload system is either on or off, you can meter bandwidth, but as long as there’s a request the stream of data keeps flowing no matter what else your computer is currently doing. RedSwoosh offers a compelling alternative to BitTorrent, with a more intelligent system for sharing. When you click on a “swooshed” link you’re prompted to download the RedSwoosh client, which offers smart download management to make sure file transfers aren’t getting in the way of other activities like Skype calls or other network intensive activities. Chris recently spoke with Travis Kalanick from RedSwoosh about how their technology works, why it’s a more efficient system for delivering files than other options and how RedSwoosh benefits both content distribution systems and the people who download.

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[...] CommentTimeAug 23rd 2006   Hi All,Total newbie here. Despite being a Gnomedex this year I didn’t start paying attention until hearing about the Swoosh on the Chris Pirillo show the other day: http://www.thechrispirilloshow.com/2006/07/13/travis-kalanick-on-file-sharing-with-redswoosh/Anyway, my question is, what do current podcasting clients do when they come across a Swooshed link? Do they download it from the site like a link of old or do they ignore it? What about if you have already installed the Swoosh client?I love Tomjacobs idea about about having a client just swoosh the links without the podcaster having to know about or care about it. Granted this isn’t the ideal as paramagnus mentioned but it’s a start IMHO. One thing to worry about though is the number of redirects. Some ‘casts already do redirects through statistic gathering sites before it gets to the client and I think there is a limit of 5 redirects. [...]

redswoosh upload sucks , try uploading a christmass video clip which is 700 mb ! it doesnt work 15 millio for this junk

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