The key algorithm that makes FeedTree possible is the Scribe peer-to-peer multicast system. Scribe trees are each organized around a topic, in this case, the URL of a feed; each subscriber in the Pastry network routes a message incrementally toward the node nearest the topic, and the union of all those routes (with arrows reversed!) [...]

Welcome to everyone visiting from Slashdot! The story generated some good discussion, including FT isn’t BitTorrent (but how they might work together) why it’s OK that there’s some conceptual overlap with NNTP a good response to a reasonable question: what’s the problem, exactly? It wasn’t really the bump in users I was hoping for; at [...]

Version 0.7.0 of the FeedTree software for users and publishers is now available for download. This version collects a number of bug fixes and new features; a complete list of checkins is here. Some highlights: Proxy: New statistics and info in the web UI (screenshots) Proxy: Support for conditional HTTP GET for feeds being polled [...]

20 Ca FT→Coral I’ve been playing around with ways to take advantage of FeedTree’s prompt feed updates. On my desktop, where I run the FeedTree client proxy, I get new links from the Digg diggall feed and the Reddit new links feed every 6 minutes on average. These feeds are a firehose of links that [...]