Nice, something new! About time someone fixed RSS!<br><br>Bob<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ryan S. Peterson</b> <<a href="mailto:ryanp@cs.cornell.edu">ryanp@cs.cornell.edu
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Hello,<br><br>We're writing to announce Corona, a new system that you can use<br>to monitor websites and RSS feeds through instant messages.<br><br>Corona is a peer-to-peer publish-subscribe system for the web.<br>You contact Corona via IM and tell it which web pages and RSS
<br>feeds you would like to track. Corona nodes periodically poll these<br>web pages, determine if there are any updates, and send the updates<br>to subscribers using short instant messages. You can use Corona to:<br> o monitor blogs: you will get IMs from Corona shortly after
<br> your favorite blogs have new content.<br> o track data sources: get an IM whenever there are new<br> torrents posted to your favorite site, when new podcasts<br> are available, or when new stories get posted. You can
<br> get to Slashdot stories before anyone else.<br> o keep up with news: subscribe to a news channel (eg CNN)<br> and have the day's breaking news delivered to you as they<br> happen.<br><br>At its core, Corona employs hundreds of servers distributed
<br>geographically around the globe, builds a self-organizing<br>overlay for event monitoring, and performs a distributed<br>mathematical optimization to determine exactly how often<br>to check each feed in order to achieve the lowest
<br>update latency given a bandwidth budget. The Corona website:<br> <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/corona/">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/beehive/corona/</a><br>describes the inner workings of the system.
<br><br>To give it a try, simply add "CornellCorona" as your buddy in AIM,<br>YIM, or MSN Messenger. Send it the message "subscribe <a href="http://www.cnn.com">www.cnn.com</a> CNN"<br>to get started, or give it any other URL you'd like to monitor. To send
<br>us feedback, type the word "feedback" followed by anything you'd like<br>to tell us. Type "help" for a complete list of what Corona can do.<br><br>Corona is a non-commercial project. There are no ads and no malware or
<br>other software bundled with it; in fact, no software is installed on<br>your machine at all. It's a totally free service we are running to<br>showcase our research. We hope you find it as useful and addictive as<br>we have.
<br><br>Thank you,<br>Ryan Peterson & the Corona team<br>_______________________________________________<br>p2p-hackers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:p2p-hackers@zgp.org">p2p-hackers@zgp.org</a><br><a href="http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers">
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