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How BitTorrent Does Happy Hours: The Biathlon Edition
Biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. We held one at BitTorrent headquarters. It involved less skiing. Here at BitTorrent, we like to have parties. While some of them are brilliantly planned events, we also like to engage in impromptu “Happy Hours.” During one of those brilliantly planned events with…
Friday Download: The Rise of Superman
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of
Behind-the-Scenes of BitTorrent’s Palooza
February’s Palooza brought out new features and new ideas with a mobile slant. Every two months, we hold an internal hackathon called a Palooza. Paloozas are at the heart of BitTorrent’s bottom-up innovation. It’s where BitTorrent Sync and BitTorrent Bundle got their start. We dedicate two full days and 20% time leading up to the…
Staff Picks: TheBlackParrot
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers In this week’s Staff Picks: New music from 17-year-old, U.S. electronic and trance producer TheBlackParrot. Not your typical 17 year old, TheBlackParrot has been producing progressive house and trance music since he was 14. Identity is…
Friday Download: Dispatch
Friday Download is dedicated to curating the best download-able objects on the web, courtesy of BitTorrent Bundle for Publishers In this week’s Friday Download: New music from beloved American indie band Dispatch. Dispatch is three member ensemble hailing from Boston; the group is made up of Brad Corrigan (vocals, drums, guitar, percussion, and harmonica), Pete…
We Are Explorers: Cut/Copy Releases 3D-Printed Video Bundle
Cut/Copy’s new video, directed by Masa Kawamura, Qanta Shimizu, and Aramique Krauthamer, marks the start of a participatory 3D-printed narrative. Cut/Copy’s Free Your Mind is a Summer of Love record: rooted in the rise of 60s psychedelia; inspired by the birth of 80s rave. It’s about open-eyed, wild-eyed experimentation. And it reminds us of a…
The BitTorrent Engineering Team: Building Faster Releases
3.4 is an exciting release for the uTorrent team. 3.4 is the first version to include a major change in the way that uTorrent works. Want all the technical details? Read on or check out the original post on our Engineering Blog.
Digital Music: We’re Doing It Wrong
What should the Internet sound like? Last Friday, De La Soul did hip hop fans everywhere a solid. To mark the group’s 25th anniversary, they made their entire catalog available for free download. Digital access historically has been an issue for the group. They have a place in the Library of Congress, but not in…
How to Build a Great Product: 5 Lessons from BitTorrent’s Mobile Team
It’s 10:45am, and the Mobile team is gathered in their daily standup. At the center of the conversation is a scrum board covered in tasks, and the team’s dashboard (a large TV). Usually, the TV displays mobile stats. Today, it’s an image Rebecca Chu, a Sr. Visual Designer, put together with the new mobile app…
Introducing BitTorrent Android V2, and Bundle-Integrated BitTorrent Software
BitTorrent for Android adds new features and reaches 50 million installs. Back home on your PC, BitTorrent desktop apps, including µTorrent 3.4, add Bundle integration and set the stage for faster updates In May 2012, we introduced BitTorrent mobile apps. A lot’s happened in less than two years. Today, we’re happy to unveil a whole…