Yes, I Understand That I’m Dead
February 20, 2007Real Age
– but it won’t tell me how long I’ve been a zombie!
Real Age
– but it won’t tell me how long I’ve been a zombie!
The traditional method of distributing large files is to put them on a central server. Each client then downloads the file directly from the server. It’s a gratifyingly simple approach, but it doesn’t scale. For every download, the server consumes bandwidth equal to the size of the file. You probably don’t have enough bandwidth to serve a large file to a large audience, and even if you did, your bandwidth bill would go through the roof. The larger the file, the larger the audience, the worse your bandwidth problem gets. It’s a popularity tax.
Neeews’s dynamic rendering allows you to look at a feed while it’s data is still being downloaded. This is especially handy for feeds with many images… . Here is a video that shows the creation of a dynamic feed, its downloading and rendering on a Palm Tungsten E2.
So here it is, the rumored February 20th.
It’s a little before noon on the east coast.
Will Apple have any iPod and or iTunes Store announcements at all?