Announcing FeedTree (Distributed RSS and Atom)

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Subject: [p2p-hackers] Announcement: FeedTree (RSS over p2p)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:09:54 -0500
From: Dan Sandler <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Dan Sandler
<[email protected]>,"Peer-to-peer development."
<[email protected]>
To: "Peer-to-peer development." <[email protected]>

We are pleased to announce the availability of FeedTree, a
peer-to-peer distribution system for RSS and Atom feed updates.

   #  For the impatient:
   #  Details and downloads at http://feedtree.net/

FeedTree reduces the bandwidth burden of offering news feeds,
while at the same time allowing feed updates to reach end users
faster than before (within seconds, not hours).  Users of
FeedTree form a peer-to-peer network which is used to disseminate
new feed events; this multicast (built on Scribe) is an efficient
group notification mechanism which spreads the burden of
distributing feed data among the feed's subscribers.

Our software (available now) includes:

   * The FeedTree Proxy, an end-user Java application which 
     allows *existing* RSS reading apps to receive updates via 
     the FeedTree network. The proxy also works with current RSS 
     and Atom feeds, polling them as necessary and sharing new 
     content with other FeedTree users.

   * The FeedTree Publisher, an optional tool allowing feed 
     authors to "push" updates to FeedTree users immediately. It 
     runs alongside existing RSS/Atom feeds, so it works with all 
     existing CMSes and weblog engines. The publisher also allows 
     publishers to add digital signatures to their feeds (helping 
     nodes verify the authenticity of updates).

More information, including research papers, documentation,
source code, and bug reporting can be found on the FeedTree
website: http://feedtree.net/ .  We'd love to hear about your
experiences using the system, as well as any other feedback you
might have.

FeedTree is an ongoing project of researchers in the Rice
University Computer Science Department.

--
Dan Sandler
[email protected]
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~dsandler/
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