http://feedtree.net/blog Releases, announcements, and information regarding the FeedTree software. Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:06:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en FeedTree version 0.7.2 is available for download. It is strongly recommended that all users update to the latest version, as it includes a number of fixes which improve the stability of the network (and which work best when more of the network is running the fixed code). In this release: Improvements ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/03/14/bugfix-release-072/ Version 0.7.1 of the FeedTree proxy and publisher is out (download). This is a bugfix release containing improvements to the FreePastry layer (changes [179] and [180]) and the way FeedTree uses it [178]. For users with multiple network interfaces (and therefore multiple IP addresses on their local network), the command-line ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/03/02/bugfix-release-071/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/02/21/digg-scribe-tree/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/02/20/welcome-slashdotters/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/02/20/version-070/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/02/12/calcium/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/01/30/wordpress-plugin-available/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/01/27/get-published/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/01/23/reddit-scribe-tree/ 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 ... http://feedtree.net/blog/2006/01/10/version-062-and-new-wiki-pages/