Nice link! I just read through the website, the approach looks good for managing load, but it doesn't offer much for anonymous broadcasting. That said, the same approach using the bit torrent idea of breaking up the broadcast/rebroadcast into small disparate chunks would solve both problems.
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from the bring-on-the-shiny dept.
Zaiff Urgulbunger writes "After yearsofspeculation, Google has announced Google Chrome OS, which should be available mid-2010. Initially targeting netbooks, its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security — which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas! The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM architectures, uses a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. According to Google, 'For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.' Google says that this new OS is separate from Android, as the latter was designed for mobile phones and set-top boxes, whereas Chrome OS is designed 'for people who spend most of their time on the web.'"The New York Times' coverage is worth reading, and there are stories popping up all over the web.