You've surely witnessed the red carpet reception that Joost has received (see our review of Joost's Beta, codename The Venice Project). Over the past few months the P2P brainchild of Skype founders Niklas Zenstromm and Janus Friis has been a feature in nearly every single web publication. However, Peer to Peer technology is being harnessed by several other promising CDN underdogs- featuring a variety of features from high definition capabilities to exclusive content partnerships. Here a few notables:
Bit Torrent: powered by Bit Torrent
This original P2P network is making a second coming- this time with a new user friendly interface and the ability to rent mainstream movies and television shows from select studios. This revamped version is sure to be a pleaser for both Hollywood as well as the users who already downloaded the software in BitTorrent's freeloader days.
Jaman: powered by Cascade
Jaman provides an online community that features an impressive library of global cinema. The content is sorted uniquely by country and offers many films that would be hard sought after without this service. Jaman also provides group creation for world cinema connoisseurs to discuss and recommend genres and films.
Open Media Network: powered by Kontiki
OMN is a non-profit that provides a ton of free and premium content that ranges from pulp video blogs likes Rocketboom to high brow public access programming like Scientific American. They also offer a variety of educational and entertaining kid's shows from public access.
Zudeo: Powered by Azureus
Zudeo touts partnerships and content from BBC Worldwide, G4, A&E and National Geographic. They have an easy to use browser that contains everything from movie trailers and computer animation to short films.
Labels: Bit Torrent, CDN, content, Jaman, OMN, P2P, peer to peer, Zudeo
