strayorange » songbird http://www.strayorange.com/blog where may I find stray oranges, sir? Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:13:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A DHT for Mozilla? http://www.strayorange.com/blog/56-a-dht-for-mozilla http://www.strayorange.com/blog/56-a-dht-for-mozilla#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:19:19 +0000 CAFxX http://www.strayorange.com/blog/?p=56
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    • ]]>     I’ve been thinking in the last few days about writing a DHT implementation for Mozilla, some kind of generic library (packaged as an add-on) that may be used in a tons of different ways, like:

    • a distributed version of Weave (for Firefox)
    • a shared cache/proxy/CDN system (that would allow users to reach otherwise unreachable resources, be it because of server downtime or because of censorship policies)
    • a file sharing platform (for Songbird: imagine being able to see in your library not only your songs, but also everyone else’s)
    • a distributed computing platform (more on this in a later post)
    • the Next Big Thing™

    BTW, much of this is partly already implemented in any bittorrent client (and the rest is already on track), what’s needed is just glueing the pieces together. As soon as my exams are over I’ll give it a try…

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