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Bittorent Inc. Working on a Distributed Browser: Maelstrom

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday December 11 2014, @11:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the port-in-the-storm dept.

Marneus68 writes:

After the recent launch of Bittorent Sync and the Bittorent Bleep, Bittorent Inc. is reportedly working on a distributed web browser called Maelstrom.

The project that aims to "power a new way for web content to be published, accessed and consumed" is in alpha and only accessible with an invite.

While very interesting, this project raises many questions. How is this "distributed web browser" made? Is the DNS lookup distributed among users too? Is this going to become a new protocol and is it going to be open?

Sadly, if you're not on the alpha there's not much you can deduce from the little blurb on their blog.

Is anyone on Soylent News on the alpha yet? Anyone tried to do a bit of tinkering to see how it works?

The full announcement available here. Additional coverage can be found here and here.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by idetuxs on Saturday December 13 2014, @08:10AM

    by idetuxs (2990) on Saturday December 13 2014, @08:10AM (#125721)

    I signed for the alpha tester of Bittorrent Bleep some time ago, later a mail came in and said I could try it. The release was only available to Windows. WTF, I don't use Windows I thought, why they didn't specify it before?

    Just checked their web page and still only available to Windows. That's so odd, an educated guess would be that a huge cap of the torrent (or related torrent programs) market reside on Linux users.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 13 2014, @07:56PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 13 2014, @07:56PM (#125810)

    Some folks have run the Windoze port of Firefox via WINE in order to get Silverlight working, in turn to get Netflix running.

    There's one guy I know of who has made very sure his app is always WINE-compatible and has for over a decade. [google.com]
    In the process, his app became the industry standard.

    -- gewg_