Once you get down to it, all code is written on top of a platform. Why not use the wisdom of crowds and open it up to everyone so that they can contribute their ideas?
Yes, I want for example that my context menu becomes a platform of sorts, where they can show me good offers on any word selected in any software I use!
We can make it optionally purple and add bananas, if desired.
I see the argument, and no doubt it'll be pretty successful, but a large reason why I liked uTorrent is because it was fast and lean. More layers of abstraction tends to lead to slower performance.
I wonder if they're trying to compete with Azureus / Vuze with this?
:| It's the "why no love for the hardcore gamer?" lament all over again. People who care are a minority.
You have a good point. However, when you have the number of users they have, some interesting things might happen that wouldn't if they tried to develop all the new features themselves.
The Griffin project introduces a web-based extensions framework for µTorrent to allow for easy extensibility by 3rd party developers through a simple API ... What we came up with is a web-based extensions framework where "Apps" which consist only of HTML and Javascript can be added to the client and displayed using an embedded browser window.
µTorrent (many torrent clients infact) have long had their own web interfaces, for managing downloads thru a browser from afar.
It sounds like these Apps/Extensions are simply a tidier bundling of the long present webgui [webgui.zip ?]. Technically, I bet all this was possible already, but this likely makes the use more conventional, supported, & easier to setup.
Probably a web server which stores data in a distributed (and fault tolerant) way in all these clients. There will be no central point of failure. This will be really worthy of being called "cloud" as opposed to a bunch of servers put together in a farm.
In addition to the advantage of being fault tolerant, a system like this will be able to balance the load in such a way that the website never goes down in case of a traffic surge.
Another benefit (or not, depending on how you see it) will be that a website hosted in a torrent cloud will be difficult to take down by anyone.
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We can make it optionally purple and add bananas, if desired.
/me is glad I bought bananas a while ago. * nom nom nom * .
I wonder if they're trying to compete with Azureus / Vuze with this?
:| It's the "why no love for the hardcore gamer?" lament all over again. People who care are a minority.
How long before have to have this conversation:
"Our product needs to support user customization. We need apps!" "We have an extension framework." "But that's not apps!"
From http://www.utorrent.com/labs/griffin
The Griffin project introduces a web-based extensions framework for µTorrent to allow for easy extensibility by 3rd party developers through a simple API ... What we came up with is a web-based extensions framework where "Apps" which consist only of HTML and Javascript can be added to the client and displayed using an embedded browser window.
It sounds like these Apps/Extensions are simply a tidier bundling of the long present webgui [webgui.zip ?]. Technically, I bet all this was possible already, but this likely makes the use more conventional, supported, & easier to setup.
In addition to the advantage of being fault tolerant, a system like this will be able to balance the load in such a way that the website never goes down in case of a traffic surge.
Another benefit (or not, depending on how you see it) will be that a website hosted in a torrent cloud will be difficult to take down by anyone.
- Make it easy for people to get TED talks via. BitTorrent with recommendations
- Share your torrents with friends in a Blippy style feed
- Make something feel good, like a map with the general locations of all the peers you're connected to.