Using RSS to diffuse calendaring information would really be a killer application. No more people ping ponging e-mails to each other to inform about schedule changes. Instead one just subscribe to the calendar of somebody else.
BitTorrent and Broadcatching. Ernest
Miller has had a series of posts on the topic of
"broadcatching", using an RSS feed to announce new BitTorrent releases
of video or other content.
Recently he
pointed
to
an
article on Techdirt
complaining about the mainstream press misunderstanding BitTorrent.
I'd say it's Techdirt, and just about everyone else who's caught up in
this broadcatching craze, who misses the point about BitTorrent.
BT differs from other P2P systems in the algorithm... [Unlimited Freedom]
This could be a perfect way to distribute software. It could be even more useful when combined with CVS.
