Justin Chapaweske, who developed SwarmCast (a "swarming" parallel download tech) for OpenCola, has started a new company that's building on his work, called Onion Networks. Onion's tech turns the Slashdot effect into a cooperative effort, where everyone downloading a popular file becomes a host of part of the file, so that the more popular a file is, the easier it is to get.
To show off Onion's stuff, he's started the Open Content network, which allows the whole world to put its popular, high-demand files into the mesh to make 'em easier to download.
