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Travis built RedSwoosh (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swoosh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Swoosh) and then went on to build Uber. Now someone saw U

• dedalus 4y ago
  Quite an honor to see Matthew Prince (CEO of Cloudflare) chime here. Akamai acquired RedSwoosh precisely on the same economics promised and if this were economical/viable they would already have deployed it, no? I did hack with Travis on RedSwoosh code base optimizing his TCP Zipper algorithm which was pretty cool BTW
• mranton 4y ago
  >The Red Swoosh peercasting tool is a _browser_extension_ that caches data, reflecting and sharing files delivered through the "Swoosh network" I don't know how it works in details, but it looks like you need to install a browser plugin to enable the p2p network here. Our solution works transparently for the end user.
  • dedalus 4y ago
    The extension simply rewrites the URLs and there's a way to "swoosh" your links which works transparent for the end user: https://web.archive.org/web/20050111015750/http://redswoosh.com/product.php https://web.archive.org/web/20050111015750/http://redswoosh....