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September 12, 2004
Grouper: Groove meets WASTE...
Posted by Clay Shirky
Grouper, a new entrant in the category of small-group P2P apps. (The N^2 problem is only a problem if N is large…) It’s the usual mix of “communications plus file sharing for small groups” that we know from Groove, Bad Blue, and WASTE, but it claims (Windows only, so I can’t test it at home) to have put a lot of effort into ease of use. It advertises thumbnailing of pics, streaming of files from remote users, and no adware or spyware.
If any M2M users have tried it, we’d love comments or pointers to other posts.
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1. Nancy White on September 12, 2004 11:21 PM writes...
Cliff Figallo, is doing some work with them (see http://www.socialchemy.com/figmento/2004/09/grouper-home-page-launch.html and previous post.) I had the chance to play with it over the past week or so and have mostly enjoyed listening to others' music -- I am not a savvy P2P music swapper so I'm probably a reasonable second wave user for this type of application. It is a bit slow on my older desktop (Win 2000) and I have not invited in a lot of friends to see how the networking unfolds.
Permalink to Comment2. Lindon Parker on September 14, 2004 8:15 PM writes...
We all installed it here(about 5 people) and everyone likes the UI. My machine is the one with most music on it,(so gets hit hardest) and when more than two streams are running it drags my WinXP p4 (256MB) machine back to sub-win98 performance... slowing *everything* not just this app. Running WinAmp to listen to my own music makes the streams flakey too. In short nice UI pity about streaming performance...(oh we're all on a 100MB LAN by the way..)
Permalink to Comment3. Paul Kenny on September 16, 2004 6:50 AM writes...
You may want to check out our application, clevercactus share which we released in June. It runs on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
Permalink to Comment4. 手机铃声下载zing on September 18, 2004 11:32 AM writes...
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