This is pretty exciting! WordPress users who want to push out their blog updates with FeedTree now have a two-step process: Install the FeedTree publishing tool. (This is easier than ever now that there’s a helpful configuration script.) Install the new FeedTree plugin for WordPress. Tell the plugin the URL to your certificate and the [...]

If you’ve been meaning to try pushing out feed updates but haven’t figured out the configuration, there’s a new configure-publisher console tool that will walk you through it. It asks you a few questions, calls keytool and openssl to do the crypto for you, and then emits a publisher.conf that’s ready to use with the [...]

FeedTree is a research project, and all research projects need data: preferably lots and lots of it. Each FeedTree node sends a small amount of anonymized data back to a statistics server; it’s enough to reconstruct the Scribe multicast trees that distribute new feed events. Since the FT network is still pretty small, these “trees” [...]

Version 0.6.2 of the FeedTree client software is now available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and any other Java 1.4/1.5 platform. Many minor fixes, including the elimination of a large memory leak (oops!) and an update to the latest version of FreePastry (which itself contains a number of performance-related improvements). In addition to the new release, [...]