Dijjer looking for new maintainer

Due to other commitments, Dijjer's creator and primary developer Ian Clarke is no-longer able to maintain Dijjer. I'm looking for a good dedicated Java developer with the patience to become familiar with Dijjer's code-base, and revive the project. I will provide all the help I can in this endeavor.

If interested, please email me at ian DOT clarke AT gmail DOT com.

You should also take a look at the Development page to learn more about how Dijjer works.

Introduction

Dijjer is free P2P software that dramatically reduces the bandwidth needed to host large files

Bandwidth is a problem for anyone hosting big files. As soon as your music, mp3 blog, or movie gets too popular, either your site goes down or you get hit with a huge bandwidth bill. Worse, the cost and hassle of distributing large media files means that the internet isn't living up to its potential as a democratic medium. Dijjer solves this problem. What distinguishes it from similar P2P tools (like Bittorrent) is how easy it is to use for publishers and users.

Using Dijjer on Your Website is So Simple

You don't need to install anything. Just put a file on your site as you normally do, but add "http://www.dijjer.org/get/" to the beginning of your links:

Normal link: http://mysite.com/video.mov
Dijjer link: http://dijjer.org/get/http://mysite.com/video.mov 

When they click a Dijjer link, users will get some of the file from your website, but most of it will come from other people running Dijjer. That's how you save bandwidth. And when someone clicks on the link who hasn't used Dijjer before, they'll get help installing it. After that, downloads happen seamlessly inside their web browser.

What is different about Dijjer?

Files are downloaded from beginning to end Which means that you can start watching a video downloaded over Dijjer before its finished downloading.

Downloads happen in your browser Dijjer streams downloads over normal HTTP. This means, for example, that Dijjer can stream directly to a video player embedded in a web page.

Works great with RSS & podcasting Dijjer will work perfectly with ipodder, ipodderx, radio, and every other podcasting "aggregator".

Works for Windows, Mac, and Linux Dijjer is written in Java, which means that it will run seamlessly on a wide variety of operating systems.

100% Open Source Dijjer's source code is released under the GNU Public License, meaning that you are free to examine and improve it.

Have a question? Take a look at our FrequentlyAskedQuestions, or join the Dijjer Google group.