Red Swoosh

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Red Swoosh is a Peer to Peer networking client from Akamai Technologies that downloads and sideloads video multicasts from websites that support the Red Swoosh technology. The Red Swoosh peercasting tool is a browser extension caches data, reflecting and sharing files delivered through the “Swoosh network” or Distributed Network. Red Swoosh utilizes a proprietary, peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, designed for bandwidth efficiency in the transfer of large media files. The company offers a software development kit (SDK) for third-party development. This includes support for predelivery, RSS feeds, web widgets, and JavaScript applications. There is also a forum and a wiki available for the developer community.

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• Acquired by Akamai for $15M. (4/12/07)
  Posted 5/2/08 at 12:53pm
• Travis Kalanick, Founder, CEO added.
  Posted 1/2/09 at 10:47pm
• David Barrett, Engineering Manager added.
  Posted 5/2/08 at 12:46pm
• Witold Stankiewicz, Software Engineer added.
  Posted 1/7/09 at 10:06am

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1. Payday for Red Swoosh 15 million from Akamai/ (techcrunch.com) [edit]