LittleShoot: P2P 2.0 for anyone, anywhere
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- p2pnet hopes ultimately publish all of its content on LittleShoot, as well as through p2pnet.net, we said in June.
That’s still the plan, and it’s a large step closer now developer Adam Fisk (right) has officially turned LittleShoot loose.
What’s the Big Idea?
LittleShoot was created to allow anyone, anywhere, to distribute their content online, cheaply and efficiently.
Here’s what Fisk says on the site »»»
At LittleShoot, we believe the Internet is the most powerful tool for free speech the world has ever known. This struck me, Adam Fisk, the co-founder of LittleShoot, on the first Internet site I ever visited: the site for the African National Congress (ANC), the organization led by Nelson Mandela dedicated to the overthrowing of Apartheid. On the level playing field of the Internet, the ANC could speak just as loudly as anyone else, and the Internet helped them spread their message to the world. What an amazing new tool for democracy! I was in college at the time, and I had just set up an independent study to build my own radio transmitter to start broadcasting a “pirate” signal in Providence, RI. After seeing the World Wide Web, though, it was clear this Tim Berners-Lee guy, the inventor of the initial World Wide Web standards, had created a transmitter far more powerful. I scrapped the independent study and started taking every computer science class I could.
LittleShoot is the most powerful transmitter I can imagine. After working for four years as the lead engineer at LimeWire, I started LittleShoot to overcome all of LimeWire’s shortcomings, from ease of use to legal issues to the underlying technology. The result is a standards-based peer-to-peer application that works directly from your browser with the most powerful searching, publishing, and downloading technology available today.
LittleShoot is far more than just a powerful transmitter. It’s also a receiver, and it can find new signals. In many ways, it’s like Google for files instead of web pages, but that doesn’t cover the transmitting. With LittleShoot, publishing your content is clicks away, and you don’t have to wait for it to upload anywhere.
Breaking this down further, LittleShoot is a tool for:
1. Publishing (transmitting)
2. Searching (finding new signals)
3. Downloading (receiving)LittleShoot provides optimal solutions to all three problems using the best of peer-to-peer and centralized technologies. We give you complete control over publishing and distribution of Internet media, all using open protocols and open standards and released as open source software.
He adds:
“We care so much about making LittleShoot easy, you don’t even create an account when you download LittleShoot. You just download and go. We don’t know who you are, and we don’t want to know. We just want you to like using LittleShoot, and users typically don’t like companies spamming them or collecting their information to sell to the highest bidder. We know we don’t like companies doing that do us. We will never, ever use spyware or adware or anything remotely along those lines. That stuff’s just annoying.”
Stay tuned.
JN
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