Comments on: Social Recommendations Meet BitTorrent on Tribler

By: Heard about the New Torrent Client Tribler? It Sucks.

Heard about the New Torrent Client Tribler? It Sucks. — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:07:46 +0000

[...] I never knew this one before TorrentFreak featured it. Then was on Digg, Lifehacker and Techcrunch. Enough [...]

By: fistball

fistball — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:10:02 +0000

is this legal?Will u report any1 who downloads illegal stuff from ur social list?

By: Tribler: A Next Generation BitTorrent Clinet?

Tribler: A Next Generation BitTorrent Clinet? — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:15:57 +0000

Tribler: A Next Generation BitTorrent Client?…

The latest version of the social BitTorrent client Tribler integrates BitTorrent with YouTube while offering the best of both worlds: ease of use, browsing with thumbnails, HDTV quality, and Video on Demand support. The client uses an Amazon.com-li…

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:21:38 +0000

- I would say -

- have you seen the democracy player? … seems alot better -

- this is probably more semantic though / which is the trend - RB

By: Metagg

Metagg — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:01:12 +0000

The only thing that worries me is that a lot of people use bitTorrent to download less than legal things. I can’t imagine an application that keeps a detailed record of everything you download would be welcome to those types of people, who, judging by the types of files found on most tracker sites, make up the majority of bitTorrent users…-Metagg

By: Hari

Hari — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:21:47 +0000

Thats very nice. I’ll try it as i use many torrents.

By: matthew

matthew — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:41:06 +0000

if it is a research project, who owns it?

By: Steve S

Steve S — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:18:52 +0000

Yet another entrant into the semantic web. Not too bad. MIT Media Labs is working on some other interesting technology in this area — the principle in the same at least, developing software applications that learn from user preferences and use those preferences to refine search at a high level. I am guessing that’s really going to be the next big thing.

Once you get the algorithms properly refined, it is a whole lot more effective for you to develop the functionality that will allow your web service to learn how to search from the user than it is to try to hard code these behaviors from the beginning.

It’s like the transaction between a purely directory based web to what we have today. Bit Torrent is a really good test bed for an idea like this. You have a system in which a very large amount of people are using a product consistently to download a very similar set of things. A lot of food for the algorithm if you will.

If it works, it’s bound to be interesting.

By: Search Engine WEB

Search Engine WEB — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:57:03 +0000

the concept is logical - but it will only be of use to those with very esoteric taste who are geared towards hard to find items.

Those geared towards popular downloads will eventually find out what would normally be suggested to them

And of course, the privacy issue looms.