By jherskowitz | March 8, 2010 - Posted in Software Release
We’ve been working hard on improving some of the core experiences in LimeWire this release, and we are excited to be launching them today as part of LimeWire 5.5. First and foremost, we continue to arm ourselves (and our users) in our ongoing fight against viruses and spam on the Gnutella network. As part of that effort, we […]
By jherskowitz | March 8, 2010 - Posted in Software Release, Updates, Web
A few weeks ago we rolled out a new toolbar that lets you search the web, LimeWire and for torrents - and also makes downloading content from the web with LimeWire so much easier! We received some great response to those features, and we promised some improvements would appear shortly. Well, “shortly” is almost here. On […]
By tmonday | March 3, 2010 - Posted in NYC Life, News
Over 400 folks braved last Thursday’s snowstorm to attend our Digital Music Forum East closing party, making it a huge success.
Thanks to everyone who came out, introduced yourselves, and shared your thoughts and ideas about LimeWire.
Being in the company of so many interesting folks from all facets of music and technology was energizing, to […]
By George Searle | February 24, 2010 - Posted in News
I wanted to take a few minutes to respond to the letter sent to A2IM members yesterday and make our position and intentions clear.
LimeWire is working diligently with labels, publishers and artists to introduce a full range of commercial services that harness, rather than alienate, music fans. LimeWire Store currently has over 5 million tracks […]
By jherskowitz | February 15, 2010 - Posted in LimeWire/Gnutella, Torrent, Updates
The “T” Word
In the past, the word “toolbar” has often had a stigma associated with it that evoked visions of undesired third-party adware bundled and installed without a user’s consent. In fact, at LimeWire we have turned away countless companies that have wanted us to bundle software - that while it would have generated […]
By jherskowitz | September 10, 2009 - Posted in LimeWire/Gnutella, News, Updates
Dear Friends -
Recently we rolled out a great feature in LimeWire 5.2 that let you guys easily share files with your Facebook friends using LimeWire. This feature has been very positively received and we have been working on building out that feature and extending it to users of other social networks as well. Shortly after […]
By meverett | June 10, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, Updates
Thanks for everyone who attended our session at JavaOne 2009.
Anyone who was there knows we promised to post our slides and demo source code. So here you go:
LimeWire: Swing for the Masses.pdf
Guice-Demo.zip
GlazedLists-Demo.zip
JXLayer-Demo.zip
Painting-Demo.zip
If you’d like to see slides from other talks, all of the slides from JavaOne can be found here.
LimeWire is also open source. So […]
By Dan | May 28, 2009 - Posted in Community, Java, Swing
Sam and Mike are presenting “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” at JavaOne, this Wednesday at 1:30. Their presentation is for all Swing developers targeting the Java™ 1.6 or later platform and discusses LimeWire’s new UI architecture. It covers tips and examples for using various technologies such as core Swing, SwingX, AppFramework, GlazedLists, and XUL. […]
By Ernie Yu | May 19, 2009 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
The upcoming version of LimeWire adds advanced filtering features to help you refine search results and locate files. These features display controls to select from several file attributes, such as category, file extension, and file size. In particular, the file size control uses a dual-thumb slider to allow you to select a range of sizes […]
By meverett | April 9, 2009 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
One of the features we added into LimeWire 5 was a thumbnail view for images which solves a lot of problems. In older versions, images appeared as a list of filenames. There are few problems with this.
1) Most images are poorly named. Digital cameras have not helped this at all; it’s impossible to remember that […]
By meverett | March 13, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, miglayout
Take a look at the image below. There are three major components: a top header that spans the width, a left hand nav and a main panel that fills the remaining width and height. It would be pretty easy to lay out these three components using BorderLayout.
Now suppose we wanted to add a floating component […]
By sam | February 27, 2009 - Posted in Design, Java, Swing
Yesterday I got an email from Sun that a talk I submitted for JavaOne titled, “Developing LimeWire: Swing for the Masses” was accepted! (If you follow LimeWire’s twitter account, you already know.) Pretty nifty, considering it’s the first time I (or anyone here) has submitted a proposal to talk at JavaOne. Mike E & I […]
By sam | February 6, 2009 - Posted in post mortem
Editor’s note: this blog is another account of the LW 5 Post Mortem.
Some things That Went Right
The LimeWire client team has some amazing people on it. Every single person on the team cares about the quality of the product, code, and the other people. It’s easy to find someone who just cares about one of […]
By Dan | February 5, 2009 - Posted in Community, Design, Updates, post mortem
Editor’s note: this blog is another account of the LW 5 Post Mortem.
Some things That Went Right
Who’s your audience and what do they want?
I’ve read about it, seen the tire swing cartoon and heard co-workers mention the customer is key, but it was always lip service everywhere I worked. At least until the user experience […]
By Mike S | February 4, 2009 - Posted in Design, Software Release, Updates, post mortem
It’s a July afternoon and Sam, our team lead, called a meeting. He’s got a smile and he starts writing dates on the board. Alpha: in months, Beta: a few weeks later. Final release: Christmas 2008. The remainder of the team is in silence, just nodding their heads in agreement at him while we were […]
By meverett | January 30, 2009 - Posted in Java, Swing, miglayout
One of my favorite new libraries we added to LimeWire 5 is MigLayout. I had never used MigLayout but it was always one of those libraries I was interested in trying and it always seems to popup in blog posts and articles. I added the MigLayout jar to my local repository and fell in love […]
By meverett | December 11, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java, LimeWire/Gnutella, Swing
Our blog has been a bit quiet as of late. I see our last blog post was nearly 5 months ago. For those of you who haven’t heard in the news, we’ve been busy overhauling the User Interface and adding a bunch of new features. This week we released an Alpha to the public.
To give […]
By fberger | July 31, 2008 - Posted in Coding
During a recent refactoring, we pulled the search trie based keyword index out of the FileManagerImpl class and into its own class SharedFilesKeywordIndexImpl. The new SharedFilesKeywordIndexImpl listens for file manager add/remove events and updates its search trie accordingly.
The file manager is no longer coupled to the index. The implementation is abstracted away behind the SharedFilesKeywordIndex […]
By mturkel | July 21, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Swing, swt
LimeWire has included the SWT web browser for awhile now, embedding it in our Swing application using the SWT-AWT bridge. Unfortunately, this only works on Windows and we need a browser on all platforms. Though Sun’s lightweight WebKit-based JWebPane is coming, it is uncertain when … Enter MozSwing.
MozSwing embeds Mozilla (more specifically, […]
By pwang | July 3, 2008 - Posted in DHT, Design, P2P
Sometime ago, a friend and I talked about file sharing:
“Do you use P2P file sharing softwares?” I asked.
“Of course,” he said.
“What do you want from a file sharing software?”
“Hmm, find the right things, find them fast, be able to
download them, and easy to use.”
“Define fast,” I said.
“Like Google, type in the keyword, hit enter, and […]
By meverett | June 27, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java, swt
A few months back, I was handed these mock ups:
Note that is not and will not be a real application.
With the official release of QT Jambi 4.4, these images were mocked up to see how QT Jambi’s CSS skinning features work. For those of you not up to date on QT Jambi, it allows […]
By Mike S | June 20, 2008 - Posted in Design, Opinion
Who doesn’t love this? Windows wants to know if you are *really* sure you want to delete this file … you know, just in case you right-clicked on a file and clicked delete on accident. Never mind that the Recycle Bin itself was created for this same exact purpose … to revert unwanted deletions. This […]
By fberger | June 12, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Updates
Last fall, we refactored LimeWire to use a GNU Gettext based translation system and Launchpad for translating LimeWire. We documented the results in this blog post.
Looking back at the last couple of months, the results have been good in several respects: it has become a lot easier for developer to mark messages for translation, and […]
By fberger | June 2, 2008 - Posted in Coding
Recently at work, I started discussing cutting down on boilerplate code with Tim with respect to Object.toString().
We went through a few iterations, first there was:
@Override
public String toString() {
return toString(”nodeId”, nodeId,
“dst”, dst, “message”,
[…]
By George Searle | May 21, 2008 - Posted in LimeWire/Gnutella, P2P
Last week at Digital Hollywood, I had the opportunity to speak with entertainment, media and technology execs about our plans for LimeWire. It was nice to get out of the office to talk about and, especially, to listen to what others are thinking, saying and responding to in peer-to-peer. Overall feedback was extremely positive.
I want […]
By Jonathan A. Marshall | May 2, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Open Source, Tech & New Media
“Sharing my website is easy. Anybody can see whatever I put there, right?”
Not quite. Although you may share webpages on your website, you’re not actually sharing the site.
Most websites generate some webpages dynamically (running a program that creates a new, customized version of the page instantly) and then show it on your browser. […]
By sam | April 21, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Guice, JMock
Back in November, I wrote about LimeWire starting to convert to Guice. Now, 4 months later, we’re enjoying the fruits of our labor. We can easily add dependencies and write useful tests. Take this diff fragment:
@@ -37,6 +48,12 @@
*/
class StoreDownloaderImpl extends ManagedDownloaderImpl implements StoreDownloader {
+ /**
+ […]
By meverett | April 9, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Design, Java
For years, one of the big complaints about Java and Swing in particular was the strange L&F it produced compared to native applications. There was always something that just wasn’t right when it tried to do a native L&F. Often users couldn’t pinpoint the problem but could notice something different about it. Today, it appears […]
By Zootella | March 28, 2008 - Posted in Design, LimeWire/Gnutella
LimeWire is a program used and loved by millions of people around the world. This has put a lot of inertia in what we have right now: the features we have now, and the user interface that communicates those features with users. Even with all this inertia, however, we realize that we can’t afford to […]
By Tim Julien | March 25, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java
About two months back, I spent some time upgrading LimeWire’s http client library from httpclient 2.0 to httpclient 4.0. This caused some serious regressions in URL encoding, that was a result of httpclient switching from its own org.apache.commons.httpclient.URI impl to the jdk’s java.net URI. What I discovered is that the java.net.URI multi-argument constructors have some […]
By Staff | March 20, 2008 - Posted in Updates
Thanks to everyone who has checked out LimeWire Store (Beta) so far! LimeWire Store and LimeSpot just got off the ground and we’re glad to hear the feedback. We’re very much still building the services - adding new tracks to LimeWire Store and looking for new opportunities to work with artists.
LimeWire Store has […]
By leok | March 14, 2008 - Posted in Coding
We here at Lime Wire are pretty jazzed about our store launch. We’ve not only loaded it up with some 500K tracks (with thousands more to come), but we also managed to add some really nifty web-based user interface features. We’re able to bring this experience to you along with terabytes of media, all with […]
By meverett | March 5, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
Most people would agree that the LimeWire client is long overdue for a face lift. While it served its purpose well, it’s beginning to look a bit dated. One thing that could quickly bring the client back into the 21st century is a bit of animation.
A lot of people cringe when they hear the words […]
By Mike S | February 21, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Design
When it boils down to it, three main things make very successful technology products: capability, viability, and desirability. As an example, let’s look at digital audio player history. In the late 90’s, digital music becoming more popular, and manufacturers thought to themselves, “here is a huge market that we can tap into”. The technology was […]
By Tim Julien | February 19, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Community
There are some interesting things going on Instant Messaging land these days. There is potentially going to be a shift from closed proprietary networks to ones built on an open standard called Jabber (aka XMPP, Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). The technical details of Jabber, which I’ll explain below, make this a very […]
By ajanta | February 7, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Open Source
How is it that I can do an Internet search for “cricket” and get my favorite sport, whereas when I search for “crickets” I get a wikipedia article for the insect in the singular form? The Internet searches can instantly read my mind.
Since search was something that had always fascinated me, I signed up to […]
By Luck Dookchitra | January 25, 2008 - Posted in Careers, Office
Being on the front-end of LimeWire, which has basically been LimeHire at the rate we’re going, I often meet people who love our product but are astounded that we are what we are. And what are we, and more importantly, who are we? Well, we are a hearty group of 43 (and growing) unique individuals […]
By William Peter Benedict | January 18, 2008 - Posted in NYC Life, Office, Tech & New Media
During the first of many Lime happy hours to come this year in NYC, we all journeyed north to a place few New Yorkers dare to tread: McDonald’s Times Square. Amidst the Applebees, H’s, and M’s is the juvenile-Vegas establishment of Dave & Buster’s. The walls are lined with halves of racing cars, caged […]
By George Searle | January 11, 2008 - Posted in News, Office
Another year past, a new year ahead and a great time to reflect on each.
When I joined Lime Wire eight months ago, I found a company with a great product, one of the largest and most engaged user bases in the world, and an incredible team determined to do much more. We’ve already accomplished […]
By E.J. Wolborsky | January 9, 2008 - Posted in Careers, Internship, Interviews, Office
LimeWire vs. Lime Wire. The one word is the fastest file sharing program on the planet, the two words is the name of the company that backs that and other projects.
One year ago, this fair company was home to a mere 23 humble servants. Today, as we at Lime Wire charge ahead full-speed into anno […]
By Zootella | December 21, 2007 - Posted in Coding
Can LimeWire pack an unlimited amount of data into a finite size? Probably not. Does it do something sort of like that, in a way that lets me write a catchy opening line for a blog entry? Yes. And it does it with something computer science calls a Bloom Filter.
In 1970, Burton H. Bloom invented […]
By jpelzer | December 14, 2007 - Posted in Backups, Coding
As I write this entry, I feel well-protected from the threat of physical attack from behind me. Not because of some high-backed chair but because I have a wall of hard drive boxes stacked up behind me, with terabytes of pristine audio data destined for the LimeWire Store. It’s my fortress of storage. Just as […]
By ABow | December 11, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Internship
Did you know LimeWire is backed by an actual company with a bunch of programmers? Me neither, at least not before my internship.
Like a lot of people, I used to think LimeWire was software written by two teenagers living in their basement. I have to admit I enjoy observing other people’s reactions when I tell […]
By michaelT | December 7, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Internship, JMock
So earlier this week I was nominated to write a blog post for this thing. You know something short… around two hundred and fifty words… a bit technical but not overbearing… proper grammar… American spelling… some wit… something more or less concise… whatever… that just ain’t me. I am not corporate, and no, you can’t […]
By meverett | November 30, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Java, Swing
There has been talk, at least according to the LimeWire JIRA reports, about adding a browser to the LimeWire client for sometime. The first attempt came when the SwingLabs introduced the Java Desktop Integration Component (JDIC). The idea behind JDIC was to make it easier for Java applications to integrate with native components. The reason […]
By fberger | November 29, 2007 - Posted in Eclipse, Updates
If you ever tried running LimeWire or one of our unit tests directly from Eclipse, you will have noticed that you have to tweak the run configuration:
For running the LimeWire main class com/limegroup/gnutella/gui/Main you need to set the working directory to the project folder gui. In order to also get the system tray working, the […]
By sam | November 26, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Guice
At the end of July, we began the long and arduous process of converting LimeWire’s core code to use dependency injection. LimeWire has hundreds of thousands of lines of code, and it was never designed with dependency injection in mind. “Why Switch?!” you ask? During the month plus of lost development time, we […]
By leok | November 9, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Web
For people who have to design, build, maintain and otherwise mangle software all day, I highly recommend going through the proceedings of recent systems conferences. There’s always something novel and interesting to read up on as long as you’re not the type to shy away from dense and sometimes poorly written papers (or if […]
By fberger | November 2, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Community, LimeWire/Gnutella, Updates
LimeWire’s internationalization system gets a face lift switching to GNU gettext. In the process, we developed several Open Source tools that help the Java community with deploying gettext. Our translations are managed at Launchpad, Ubuntu’s great internationalization web community.
This article quickly juxtaposes LimeWire’s old system as it is often found in Java projects with a […]
By fberger | May 2, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Community, Software Release, Updates
We are pleased to announce Debian packages for Ubuntu!
We tested the packages on Ubuntu Edgy and Kubuntu Edgy/Feisty.
You can find packages for the latest beta release. Pro users can go to their download page and click on “new beta available”. The Basic version is available at http://www.limewire.com/download/beta.php.
We hope this makes the user experience more pleasant […]
By zab | February 28, 2007 - Posted in Coding, Software Release, Updates
Windows Vista is out, and the latest version of LimeWire runs fine on it. Read
on to find out what we did to make the transition smooth.
Aero
The first complaint we received from beta testers of the release candidates was
that starting LimeWire would cause the Aero interface to disable its 3D
effects. Relatively quickly, the issue […]
By nathan | November 10, 2006 - Posted in Updates
As part of the continuing effort to work with the software industry, Lime Wire has begun to filter many Adobe products including Acrobat, Photoshop, and After Effects. This marks a significant step toward a positive relationship with software producers and means a safer peer-to-peer process for LimeWire users.
We’re looking forward to cooperating with Adobe […]
By sam | September 15, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Open Source, P2P
Are you a researcher? Do you use the LimeWire code or the Gnutella network for your work or research? Then let us know by sending an email to researchers-at-limewire.com! We’re interested in highlighting any and all intellectuals who are learning or advancing the state of peer-to-peer research. We’re especially interested in those individuals or groups […]
By nathan | August 11, 2006 - Posted in Updates
Lime Wire has chosen Charles Baker to be our counsel to handle the lawsuit filed by the record industry. Charles also represents Streamcast in their litigation against the record industry.
By nathan | August 8, 2006 - Posted in Updates
Friday afternoon, we received a call from a reporter from the Associated Press asking about the lawsuit that had been filed against Lime Wire. That was the first we heard of the lawsuit filed by the four major record labels against Lime Wire in the Southern District of New York. Later in the […]
By nathan | August 3, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Open Source, Updates
It’s time, once more, to highlight another member of our fabulous open source community. These guys are unstoppable!
Let me introduce you to Jon Bogaty, who has just recently started to work on making a portable version of LimeWire.
“A portable LimeWire?” you ask.
That’s right, one day in the near future you may be able to carry […]
By nathan | August 2, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Office, Updates
We’ve had two new people show up here at Lime Wire this week, and they’ve agreed to being hazed…I mean “featured”…on the blog.
So, welcome Sean and Michael.
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Sean (left) is joining our video team and Michael is a new developer.
As we welcome the new guys, I’d also like to point out Route 183, a […]
By nathan | July 31, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Open Source
To continue the process of thanking our open source contributors, today we have two new guys to highlight.
First there’s Daniel Teichman, who has undertaken the formidable task of developing a web-based front end for LimeWire. Imagine the convenience of controlling LimeWire through your browser - that’s what Daniel has decided to tackle. We’re […]
By nathan | July 28, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, NYC Life, Opinion
1. “You’re doomed.”
That was Joel’s first piece of advice to me as a blogger for LimeWire.
I crashed the Fog Creek open house last night with the specific intent to talk to Joel, the author of the very popular blog Joel on Software, to try to glean some knowledge from his experience and success.
I found that […]
By nathan | July 27, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Open Source, Updates
Here at Lime Wire we often depend on the work of outstanding developers from our community. These people dedicate their time and energy to developing LimeWire, helping to make it the premier Gnutella network client.
We think it’s important to thank them for all they have done, and to highlight a few of their projects […]
By zab | July 25, 2006 - Posted in Coding
I’d like to use this blog to ask a question for the seasoned developers out there. I’ve been studying the Dependency Inversion Principle (PDF) as described by Robert C. Martin’s book. Just to recap, it boils down to:
The passage about the Depending On Abstractions heuristic caught my attention:
”
……
No variable should hold a […]
By Zootella | July 25, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Office, Open Source, Opinion
Modesty is the emotional trait that keeps people from walking around naked on really hot July days in New York. It’s also poison for open source projects. I’ll explain.
Actually, I’ll let Karl Fogel’s excellent book, Producing Open Source Software, (which, by the way, is protected by a Creative Commons license) explain:
Avoid Private Discussions
Even after you’ve […]
By nathan | July 24, 2006 - Posted in Community, Open Source
What does it mean for LimeWire to be open source?
A lot of people know what LimeWire is, but far fewer could tell you about open source software – let alone what it means that LimeWire is open source.
Open source software is really pretty simple: it means that anyone can read, modify, and redistribute the software.
That’s […]
By nathan | July 21, 2006 - Posted in NYC Life, Office
The air was blissfully cool and dry as the sun set on yesterday’s Lime Group party. Everyone gathered on the roof-top deck to celebrate…well…anything really. There were a number of new media types floating around: bloggers, SMS aggregators, peer-to-peer journalists, and surely many more who slipped my attention.
Word has it there’s a video […]
By nathan | July 19, 2006 - Posted in Interviews, Music, Opinion, P2P
“If you are an independent artist or record label and you don’t love LimeWire then you are just plain stupid!”
I discovered Backwood Entertainment on one of my frequent sifts through the blogosphere. This independent label caught my eye as one that was especially aware of the ever-changing methods of distribution and promotion. With […]
By nathan | July 18, 2006 - Posted in Community, Interviews, Open Source, Opinion, P2P
Having spent some time preparing interviews for this blog, I was surprised to find a request to interview me in my inbox yesterday morning. Joe Raby, of the blog joe’s thØt’s, who has been conducting an informal review of all peer-to-peer file-sharing programs, came up with a few questions about LimeWire.
I did my best […]
By Zootella | July 17, 2006 - Posted in GeekLife, NYC Life, Office, Open Source
I’m in Pomodoro Pizza on Prince Street, with Kirk.
“I need 6 pies—three cheese, two pepperoni, and one veggie, with cheese on just one half.” Kirk is vegan. “We’re just down the street at Sweet and Vicious, celebrating an office birthday.”
“What’s the company name?”
“LimeWire.”
“Like LimeWire the program LimeWire?”
“Yeah.”
LimeWire is open source, so it makes sense if […]
By jordan | July 14, 2006 - Posted in Video
LimeWire 2006 04 13 Sharing With Others
Windows Media 28mb magnet rss
QuickTime 61mb magnet rss
iPod […]
By nathan | July 13, 2006 - Posted in Office
There was a birthday in the Lime Wire office today! And somehow this notoriously camera-shy birthday-boy allowed himself to be photographed. You can also see Andrew (a.k.a. aj_fischler) preparing to move in on the cake.
By jordan | July 13, 2006 - Posted in NYC Life, Video
So. The fledgling LimeWire video visits the Long Tail brouhaha. One small thing: our camera was stopped at the door. It seems Wired, whose editor in chief advocates the proliferation of many small things, still wants limits. Here, at the release of an entire book devoted to the destruction of these limits, our small thing […]
By Zootella | July 13, 2006 - Posted in History, NYC Life, P2P
“NOW PLAYING,” the marquee above Tribeca Cinemas last night read: “EVERY MOVIE EVER MADE.” People passing by unfamiliar with Chris Anderson’s new book The Long Tail might have been confused by that. The launch party, hosted by Wired and our friends at Flavorpill, was fun, and LimeWire was there.
Nathan, who as a known blogger already […]
By nathan | July 13, 2006 - Posted in NYC Life, Updates
Last night’s release event for The Long Tail made for an entertaining Wednesday evening. Though I only managed to catch the end of the presentation, simulcast in the bar area of the Tribeca Cinemas, I will be posting a more thorough entry about the book in the coming days.
Anderson was a gracious host, giving […]
By dyeu | July 12, 2006 - Posted in Updates, Web
An Event Apart wrapped up yesterday here in NYC, with a day dedicated to code. It was full of interesting bits, but the presentation that stood out was Tantek Çelik’s talk about microformats.
For the definitive info, checkout microformats.org, but to rip the quick definition off that site:
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats […]
By nathan | July 12, 2006 - Posted in NYC Life, Updates
Many of us at Lime Wire are going to Chris Anderson’s release party for his book The Long Tail down the street from us tonight.
Personally, I was a little disappointed with the book: it ignored important cultural implications of our developing long tail society, and it at times seemed simply to be a plug for […]
By nathan | July 11, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Community
Big bloggers are up in a huff about Dell starting up their corporate blog. On the one hand this seems like bloggish bullying of a newcomer, on the other it seems like well deserved chastising after Jeff Jarvis’ now familiar (to blog-readers at least) “Dell Hell“:
“One of the great lessons of the cluetrain era […]
By aj_fischler | July 10, 2006 - Posted in NYC Life, Opinion, Web
The web dev team here at Lime Wire is taking the first two days of this week to be enlightened by some very bright people as An Event Apart hit New York City. For me personally this is a big pleasure, since I’m a big advocate of standards-based design, and these people are at […]
By zab | July 10, 2006 - Posted in Coding
When I first saw that Java 5.0 supports nano time I thought to myself this was an exercise in futility and showing off. After all, we’re all raised to believe that the JVM takes away control from the developer and that due to garbage collection and whatnot we should really not care about […]
By nathan | July 10, 2006 - Posted in Coding, P2P, Torrent
Imagine you’re a broadband ISP - say, Rogers in Canada.
You sell high speed access, like 6 Mbps, for US$50/month. At the start, it’s great. Everyone is just checking e-mail and browsing the Web. There are tiny spikes of traffic, which your network can deliver quickly. Customers are happy, and you’re making money.
Then, BitTorrent comes out. […]
By sam | July 9, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Coding, Open Source, P2P, Torrent
While LimeWire’s BitTorrent integration is making its way through the blogosphere and other sites, more than a few people have been concerned that LimeWire would increase the amount of leechers. Over at TorrentFreak, Iceman agreed with Jasperwillemn, saying, “Yes i absolutely agree with you man [that Torrent users prefer programs where everything can […]
By Zootella | July 7, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Community, News, Open Source, Updates
Seemingly every blog on our little green world has quoted United States Senator Ted Stevens, just like I will now do for our LimeWire blog:
And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.
I’ve thought about this, and the Senator is right. Thinking of […]
By nathan | July 6, 2006 - Posted in Coding, News, Office, P2P, Torrent, Updates
Here at Lime Wire we always try to bring you the best possible peer-to-peer experience. This means constantly staying on our toes and adapting to current trends and tastes: right now, BitTorrent is one of our focuses.
We’re working hard to integrate BT into the next version of LimeWire and there’s been a lot of […]
By sam | July 4, 2006 - Posted in Community, Music, NYC Life, P2P
The 4th of July… a busy, busy weekend. My sister got married, I saw Phil Lesh & Friends, Argentina lost to Germany, Germany lost to Italy, and countless people are preparing to set off firecrackers and wave sparklers around. Right now, though, I’m testing LimeWire’s BitTorrent integration. I was so taken with […]
By nathan | July 3, 2006 - Posted in Links, Office
Well, this loyal blogger is on vacation today and about to spend a good number of hours on a bus reading Wired editor, Chris Anderson’s new book The Long Tail. However, I will quickly leave readers with a couple tidbits to carry you over to the holiday:
Newsvine’s got a good piece on intellectual copyright:
“Looking back […]
By sam | June 29, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Open Source, Updates
LimeWire has a long history with Java. We began by supporting Java 1.1.8. At that time, LimeWire could run on Mac Classic, used a “swing.jar” package for Swing classes, a “collections.jar” package for the collections classes (such as List, Map, etc..), and had all sorts of backwards compatability code. After version 4.0 […]
By nathan | June 28, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community
As we’ve blogged about before here, there are a lot of exciting developments happening here at LimeWire. We are an open-source project and so we think it’s important to share with our community what we’re working on and who’s working on it.
There are many people involved in every step of the process that produces […]
By Zootella | June 27, 2006 - Posted in News
We just made Slyck: LimeWire Regains Top Download.com Position! SlyckTom got many of the facts right (with some notable exceptions) - here are the finer points discussed with LimeWire developers sameb, zab, and markk03.
By nathan | June 27, 2006 - Posted in P2P
It has been one year since the surprising end to the Grokster case. On June 27th, 2005, the Supreme Court handed down its decision. As is the habit on anniversaries, people are asking where we have arrived after the intervening 365 days. The Mercury News published an article yesterday declaring that file-sharing […]
By nathan | June 27, 2006 - Posted in Links
As was written here before, color is of great importance.
Aren’t you just so sick of batteries?
The FCC and VoIP, hot stuff but no cheap for long.
The “Pirate Bay” has trouble with the maritime administration? No…
Open-sourcing the router.
Yeah, well at least I’m a functional addict.
Not a neutral issue.
Wait, so they’re combatting kiddie porn…with a database of […]
By zab | June 26, 2006 - Posted in Coding
As those of you that follow fisheye have found out, we’ve started using java 1.5/5.0 features in LimeWire.
At first we derided them, then we were sort of ambivalent, but it wasn’t until changes like this one that we now love them! Expect more love soon!
By nathan | June 26, 2006 - Posted in P2P
One of the most hotly debated topics among blogs - as well as in Congress - these days is “network neutrality.” It is a complicated issue to sum up in a few sentences, but before moving on, here’s a quick intro in simplified language: Network neutrality can be seen as a set of […]
By nathan | June 26, 2006 - Posted in Links
Code Camp contest creates collaborative community?
Widgets are so hot these days.
Have you ever seen Logan’s Run? Kind of like that except they track kids..and not to kill them…
Social doodling? An example of how participation is needed to improve quality.
An older lesson in how the users are really in charge.
I’ve been talking about this site lately […]
By nathan | June 23, 2006 - Posted in Office
Green:
The color of envy, the color of environmentalism - of sickness and of spring.
And, of course, of limes.
There has been a running debate here in the Lime Wire office over colors. Many shades of the central color have been bandied about, heatedly discussed, and derided. Blue has also made cameo appearances with […]
By nathan | June 23, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Open Source
I read a lot of blogs.
Tech blogs, music blogs, business blogs, personal blogs, theory blogs, even law blogs.
Each blog - and each blogger - has its own distinct style.
Some are abrasive or heavy, others are sharp and quick.
A blogger develops their individual approach to writing, whether they recognize it or not.
Sometimes when I’m […]
By nathan | June 23, 2006 - Posted in Updates
Nothing like fighting hackers with hackers….
…or stalkers?
Refunds? From Apple?
The multitude is totally the new individual.
Looks like phones are going to be ringing over at the RIAA.
Culture jamming, stock photos, and Star Trek.
Info on a certain group’s litigation process.
Sweet, sweet DRM free content.
He’s the one that proposed CSS back in ‘94
DMCA, WoW: OMG!
By nathan | June 22, 2006 - Posted in Blogs, Media, P2P, Video
Everyone seems to agree that video is the next important thing on the web. That’s why YouTube blew up - and why there are so many other similar services popping up - that’s why the MPAA is so hot to shut down developing technologies, and that’s why ISPs are getting all worked up about […]
By nathan | June 22, 2006 - Posted in Community, GeekLife
You know those times when a game, a program, a device, or a project is completely enveloping. It consumes you as you consume it. You live and breathe this endeavor, know it like your child. Every line of code is familiar, every nook and cranny explored. Often I get the sense […]
By nathan | June 22, 2006 - Posted in Links
A slower day so far, but just you wait. And don’t forget the new version.
How culture was hacked open.
They may border on Marxism, but after all, they’re only questions.
Well, if Bill Gates did it…
Widgeting innovation.
So now we’ve got hacked culture and web culture?
Who knew the MPAA had such influence ove international trade sacntions?
For those […]
By sam | June 21, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Open Source, P2P, Software Release
LimeWire 4.12 is released! This is the first major update of LimeWire since 4.10.9 was released over 4 months ago.
LimeWire 4.12 is a major improvement to LimeWire, including many new and improved features to keep LimeWire safe, secure, and speedy. This release contains support for ’secure results’, which will prevent spammers from sending search results […]
By nathan | June 21, 2006 - Posted in Coding, Community, Media, Music, Open Source, Video
Expanding a bit on Zootella’s post: what’s going on here at Lime Wire fits in with the broader notion of open source and collaborative production. This mode of production may be prominently expressed in software development at the moment (the approximately 9% of you reading this through Firefox know what I’m talking about), but […]
By Zootella | June 21, 2006 - Posted in Community, Open Source
I’m reading Joi Ito’s article in Wired 14.06: World of Warcrack:
I started playing a year ago and have become custodian of We Know, a guild of about 250 people worldwide … We assemble in-game to mount epic six-hour raids that require some members to wake at 4 am and others to stay up all night. […]
