BitTorrent Blog
How Stuff Gets Made: BitTorrent’s December Hackathon
On Monday, we’ll begin another round of our bi-monthly Palooza (BitTorrent’s two day hackathon). So, we decided to take some time to reflect on the last one we had. If you’ve been keeping up with us, you already know that Palooza is the foundation to BitTorrent’s bottom-up innovation. It’s where BitTorrent Sync and BitTorrent Chat…
BitTorrent Tech Talks: Young Guru & the Era of the Engineer
The legendary sound engineer and The Sound of New York discusses creative engineering at BitTorrent. Music is navigation. It tells us where we are. It reminds us where we’re from. It anchors us to a moment. And it propels us forward. Change is an audible thing. And if you’re listening – which is one of…
Update on BitTorrent Chat
BitTorrent was founded on a few simple core principles. Uphold user privacy, and user control. Keep the web free, open, and accessible to all. This is what keeps us up at night. And this is what keeps us coding. Every two months, we dedicate two days to all-company hackathons (Paloozas, we call them). It’s free…
The BitTorrent Interview: Bertrand Chazot
BitTorrent is a company made up of inventors, engineers, scientists, designers; makers and breakers of technology. The BitTorrent Interview is an introduction to the people of peer-to-peer: notes from the edge of distributed technology, and a few words from the team we’re lucky enough to call our own. In this week’s edition: Bertrand Chazot, Android…
BitTorrent Bundle Staff Pick: Mary Gold | Sex Hormone’d Druggie
Mary Gold is the first female artist signed to Curren$y’s Jet Life label. A self-described “nudist, c**t, and treehugger”, it goes without saying that she’s not what you think. In this edition of Staff Picks: a look at the world inside Gold’s Sex Hormone’d Druggie, out last Friday. Download the free Bundle, and unlock the…
BitTorrent Palooza Report: Hacktober, 2013
For the last few years, we’ve made a point of setting aside two working days every few months for internal hackathons, where anyone within the company can form a team to work on and present an new idea for a product or feature. We call these informal hackathons “Paloozas”. Some of our best ideas and…
The BitTorrent Interview: Pushpa
BitTorrent is a company made up of inventors, engineers, scientists, designers; makers and breakers of technology. The BitTorrent Interview is an introduction to the people of peer-to-peer: notes from the edge of distributed technology, and a few words from the team we’re lucky enough to call our own. In this week’s edition: Always be learning…
The BitTorrent Interview: Jaehee Lee
BitTorrent is a company made up of inventors, engineers, scientists, designers; makers and breakers of technology. The BitTorrent Interview is an introduction to the people of peer-to-peer: notes from the edge of distributed technology, and a few words from the team we’re lucky enough to call our own. In this week’s edition: Building a great…
The BitTorrent Interview: Rebecca Chu, Sr. Visual Designer
BitTorrent is made up of inventors, scientists, designers; makers and breakers of technology. The BitTorrent Interview is an introduction to the people of peer-to-peer: notes from the edge of distributed technology, and a few words from the team we’re lucky enough to call our own. In this week’s edition: sleeping and breathing design with Rebecca…
Interview: Alex Day on Making Independent Music Work
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYZz3aF_hdQ&w=570&h=370] Alex day is a YouTube artist and a DIY pop star whose massive success breaks all the rules of the music industry. He doesn’t have a label. His fans live mostly on one online channel. He’s released tracks on BitTorrent. Despite this, or maybe because of this, he’s sold over half a million iTunes…