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BitTorrent Named One of Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative

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Each year, the good people at Fast Company review the year in innovation, identifying enterprises at the leading edge. The Fast Company “50 Most Innovative Companies” list profiles the thought leaders, problem solvers, and change agents who are redefining business as usual. This year’s honorees include established powerhouses like Nike and Amazon, creative upstarts like Fab and Uber, and social disruptors like Coursera, and D-Rev.

This year’s honorees also include BitTorrent, for using a 170-million-strong network to help artists who get it. We were just named one of tech’s most “terrifying/intriguing.” Consider us honored.

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Friday Download: Best In Show

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The 55th Annual Grammy Awards air on Sunday. Catch live shows from three of our favorite nominees in this week’s FDL, courtesy of the Internet Archive.

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New Download From The Mickey Hart Band Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts

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Friends of BitTorrent and Archive.org, The Mickey Hart Band, are releasing new music to benefit Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.

With the donation of your choice (even a tweet counts), you can download Jersey Shore: a new song, a live show recorded on the Jersey Shore last August, and tracks from Mysterium Tremendum.

Do some good, kids. 100% of the proceeds go to Clean Ocean Action, who’ve organized over 3,800 volunteers since November. Download Jersey Shore here.

Friday Download: Zombie Apocalypse

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Tomorrow is Groundhog Day. Maybe it’ll be an early spring. Maybe it’ll be six more weeks of winter. Or maybe: it’ll be the Zombie Apocalypse. Enjoy your last days on earth with five free downloads from the Internet Archive.

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Will you watch Super Bowl XLVII in Ultra HD?

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Originally published on ZDNET.

Will you watch Super Bowl XLVII in Ultra HD?

The answer is “no”, but not for the reasons you might think.

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Friday Download: Spirit Animals

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In today’s Friday Download: all things animal, with live shows from Animal Collective, Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad, and White Rabbits, antiquarian Bird-lore from the Audubon Society, and an audiobook version of Jack London’s White Fang. All courtesy of Internet Archive.

Ready to reconnect with your spirit animal? Read on for the download links.

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Test BitTorrent Sync (Pre-Alpha)

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We like it when things work together. So we’ve been working on a new distributed syncing product to help manage personal files between multiple computers.

Today, BitTorrent Sync is in a pre-Alpha stage. And we’re hoping that users like you can help us build something sick. If you’re comfortable using early, incomplete software, and if you’re committed to helping us figure out a better way to sync, we want to hear from you.

We’re opening up enrollment in our pre-Alpha program to a limited number of testers. If you’re interested, check out the Labs page, fill out an application, and we’ll get you started.

Check out BitTorrent Sync.

Welcome To The Lab

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We believe in an open Internet. One where innovation belongs to all, and not some. One where creators and coders are given options. Not rules. Those are lofty statements and big ideals. But here’s a small step in that direction.

Today, we’re opening up BitTorrent Labs. It’s an Alpha site for our Alpha projects – all the stuff we’re working on that’s still in early concept phases. We’re inviting anyone (everyone) to experiment with these projects. And we’re inviting anyone (everyone) to build on them, and build their own. BitTorrent Labs is the new home for Torque, a JavaScript interface to torrent clients, designed for web developers.

So, come check out our Labs. We’ve got a few experiments up and running: from Surf, just released as an Alpha in the Chrome Store, to Sync, a brand-new file-syncing pre-Alpha. We’re looking for brave test users, for broadcasters, and builders. Come make stuff with us.

Experiment with BitTorrent Labs.

Featured Content: An Epic Meal Time Video Exclusive

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It’s breakfast time in San Francisco. And today, we’re eating LIKE A BOSS. To help launch Epic Meal Time’s new show, Epic Chef, we’re releasing two exclusive videos (and two new tracks) to BitTorrent users. Want sweet, sweet bacon in your face? Of course you do. Download the BitTorrent Bundle, and learn how to make your next meal f**king epic (spoiler alert: whiskey).

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Friday Download: Across the Universe

Friday Download, Across the Universe

Space. All those planets and stars, son. This week, we rummaged through the codes and stacks of the Internet Archive with the universe on our mind. We watched Buckminster Fuller explain it all. We went Around the World in 80 days. We got extraterrestrial with the Grateful Dead. We traveled with Dr. Doolittle. And we found out about a band with basically the best name ever: Flux Capacitor.

Links after the jump.

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