opencola ( company )
a software company that happens to produce a soda, opencola uses peer - to - peer searching to find information on the web. its soft drink, opencola, helps to promote the company .
on may 31, 2000 steelbridge inc. announced development of opencola a collaborative distributive open source search engine. it runs on the user' s computer and crawls the web pages and links the user puts in their opencola folder and shares resulting index over its p2p network. steelbridge was renamed opencola, and the opencola company was sold to the open text company in 2003, after releasing swarmcast under the gnu gpl .
please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from wikipedia or other free sources online. opencola was a toronto - based software company founded in 1999 by grad conn, cory doctorow and john henson to create
collaboration object lookup architecture
software, and sold in 2003. the software and specifications produced were all released as open source. the earliest archived page of the company website described
opencola
as an application, a protocol, suite of tools, and the company itself. the opencola desktop client / server application enabled users to collaboratively search, acquire, manage and share information from multiple data sources, including the internet, peers on the opencola network, and existing proprietary databases, from a single interface. show more
the third component, the linkripper, pulls the links from the documents in your opencola folder. opencola crawls the new links and a fourth component, the relevance engine, scores the new pages against your criteria. as you approve or reject pages, opencola updates your criteria, honing your search .
take opencola. although originally intended as a promotional tool to explain open source software, the drink has taken on a life of its own. the toronto - based opencola company has become better known for the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. laird brown, the company' s senior strategist, attributes its success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the
proprietary nature of almost everything .
a website selling the stuff has shifted 150, 000 cans. politically minded students in the us have started mixing up the recipe for parties .
the software continues to crawl the web but also looks at other users’ opencola folders that are similar to your own. opencola sends you their links but - unlike peer - to - peer sharing software like napster - not their files. opencola points to napster’s legal woes as proof that distributed searching beats file sharing, at least in the eyes of the courts .
specifically, opencola folders is a peer - to - peer network search utility, based on the idea of collaborative computing .
opencola acts as both client and server on your system. as in other distributed computing systems (see virtual supercomputers sign up for business), the users of opencola each give a bit of their computing power to the good of the whole .
although originally intended as a promotional tool to explain free software / open source software, the drink took on a life of its own and 150, 000 cans were sold. the toronto - based company opencola founded by grad conn, cory doctorow and john henson became better known for the drink than the software it was supposed to promote. laird brown, the company' s senior strategist, attributes its success to a widespread mistrust of big corporations and the
proprietary nature of almost everything .
the “cola” in opencola stands for collaborative object lookup architecture. collaborative, because the software peeks into other people’s opencola folders and makes choices for you based on what others have found useful. if you don’t like what the software finds, you throw it out - and repeat .
and yes, the company already publishes a free cola recipe you can download and mess with. with the right ingredients - some oils, a little citric acid, some caffeine and caramel - just about anybody can make the stuff in a tub at home. (remember, though, “caffeine can kill people in relatively small doses, ” warns opencola. )
doctorow serves on a number of boards of directors and advisory boards, including those of the participatory culture foundation, the open rights group, the metabrainz foundation, technorati, inc, onion networks, and others; as well as the confernece committee for the o’reilly emerging technology conference. he co - founded the open source p2p technology company opencola, which was sold to opentext in 2003 .
opencola relies on four distinct components. the first - and most visible to the user - is the opencola folder. you put links - both to the web and from your own computer - into the folder. a second component, the relevance queue, scans the linked pages and builds a set of search criteria .
steve jobs wooed pepsi ceo john sculley over to apple with the question, “do you want to change the world, or sell sugar water? ” an enthusiastic startup called opencola hopes to do both .
as you surf the web, you drag things you find (and like) into a folder. from your choices, opencola learns your interests and crawls the web for related pages, music or games .
contained hereunder is a how - to for brewing up kitchen - sink opencola. amazingly enough, every soft - drink vendor we spoke to acted like the preparation of cola was some kind of deep, dark trade - seekrut. with much reverse - engineering and creative shopping, the research kitchens at opencola have coopered together the following makefile for brewing up the black waters of corporate imperialism in the privacy of your own home .
opencola is the world' s first
open source
consumer product. by calling it open source, its manufacturer is saying that instructions for making it are freely available. anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, release their recipe into the public domain. as a way of doing business it' s rather unusual - - the coca - cola company doesn' t make a habit of giving away precious commercial secrets. but that' s the point .
some time in 2006 borislav agapiev started thinking about a distributed search engine. then on october 20, 2009 he publicly launched wowd. in 2011, having failed to get traction, wowd was split up and acquired by three different companies including facebook, a start - up called jildy, and an anonymous third company which bought the wowd software patents .
the result should be “good stuff that is utterly surprising, ” says cory doctorow, the company’s co - founder and chief evangelist. “it’s like you meet someone at a party, and you hit it off really well. they recommend things to you that you’ve never heard of. and those things become the most important things in the world to you. ”
opencola soda is distributed under the terms of the general public license (gpl), a copy of which is appended to the bottom of this document. please check out richard stallman' s free software foundation. he wrote the gpl and has plenty of interesting documentation on the site .
an important note: this is * not * the recipe for
opencola
- - that is, the canned beverage from opencola that you may have received at a trade show, or other venue or outlet. making canned cola requires millions of dollars in abstruse gear and manufacturing gizmos. it' s easier to make nerve gas than manufacture cola. this is a kitchen - sink recipe that you can make all on your own. it is * our * kitchen - sink recipe. we figured it out somewhere between coding the cola sdk and debugging the linux build of the clerver .
if you' ve been to a computer show in recent months you might have seen it: a shiny silver drink can with a ring - pull logo and the words
opencola
on the side. inside is a fizzy drink that tastes very much like coca - cola. or is it pepsi ?
opencola is unique in that the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the gnu general public license. the legal grounds for this are dubious however, as recipes are exempted from copyright as they are techniques, not artworks .
with any food - prep, failure to observe basic hygienic principles, follow directions, and exercise common sense can have grave consequences. opencola assumes no liability for any problems that arise out of the use of this document. proceed at your own risk. no one' s putting a gun to your head, so don' t bother if you can' t boil water .
international: opencola makes no representation that the recipe, or any soft drink based on the recipe or any derivatives thereof, may be appropriate for use in locations outside of the united states or canada, and accessing them from any location where their use is illegal is prohibited. if you choose to access this recipe from any location outside of the united states or canada, you do so at your own risk, and are responsible for compliance with all local laws .
indemnity: you shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless opencola, its affiliates, directors, officers, and employees from and against any third - party claim, demand, cause of action, debt, liability, cost or expense (including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of your use of the recipe, or any derivative thereof, including, but not limited to, any claims arising from your distribution of soft drink based on the recipe or any derivatives thereof .
there' s something else written on the can, though, which sets the drink apart. it says
check out the source at opencola. com .
go to that web address [ 1 ] greg. rundlett (talk) 08: 34, 6 june 2015 (edt) and you' ll see something that' s not available on coca - cola' s website, or pepsi' s - - the recipe for cola. for the first time ever, you can make the real thing in your own home .
one reason for doing so is that by releasing it under a copyleft, we can print the recipe for opencola without violating its copyleft. if nothing else, that demonstrates the power of the copyleft to spread itself. but there' s another reason, too: to see what happens. to my knowledge this is the first magazine article published under a copyleft. who knows what the outcome will be? perhaps the article will disappear without a trace. perhaps it will be photocopied, redistributed, re - edited, rewritten, cut and pasted onto websites, handbills and articles all over the world. i don' t know - - but that' s the point. it' s not up to me any more. the decision belongs to all of us .
opencola is a happy accident and poses no real threat to coke or pepsi, but elsewhere people are deliberately using the open source model to challenge entrenched interests. one popular target is the music industry. at the forefront of the attack is the electronic frontier foundation, a san francisco group set up to defend civil liberties in the digital society. in april of last year, the eff published a model copyleft called the open audio license (oal). the idea is to let musicians take advantage of digital music' s properties - - ease of copying and distribution - - rather than fighting against them. musicians who release music under an oal consent to their work being freely copied, performed, reworked and reissued, as long as these new products are released under the same licence. they can then rely on
viral distribution
to get heard .
if the people like the music, they will support the artist to ensure the artist can continue to make music ,
says robin gross of the eff .
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cory doctorow is the co - editor of boing boing, a very popular weblog about technology, culture, and politics. he has written three science - fiction novels, all published by tor books (down and out in the magic kingdom, 2003, eastern standard tribe, 2004, someone comes to town, someone leaves town, 2005), and a short story collection published by avalon (a place so foreign and eight more, 2003). he has also written for various publications including wired, popular science and salon .
doctorow was a visiting professor to usc' s center on public diplomacy and canadian fulbright chair in public diplomacy for 2006 - 2007, and is an activist, a writer, a blogger, a public speaker, and a technology person .
from 2002 - 2006, doctorow was the director of european affairs for the electronic frontier foundation (eff), a technology advocacy nonprofit that works to upload liberty in technology law, policy and standards, where he remains a fellow. he has also worked at the united nations, at standards bodies, at governments, and with universities and non - profits to agitate for a balanced approach to copyright that didn’t trammel the public’s fundamental rights to privacy, free speech, and due process .
born in toronto, canada, on july 17, 1971 to trotskyist schoolteachers, doctorow was exposed to both science - fiction and computers at an early age and has spent most of his life behind a keyboard .
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flavoring: mix oils together in a cup. add food - grade gum arabic, mix with a spoon. add water and mix well. a mixer may be used for this step, mixing for 4 - 5 minutes. you can also transfer to a blender for this step. the mix can be kept in a sealed glass jar in a refrigerator or at room temperature. please note that this mixture will separate. the gum arabic is essential to this part of the recipe, as you are mixing oil and water. syrup: in a one gallon container, take 5 mls of the flavoring formula, add the 75% phosphoric or citric acid. add the water, then the sugar. while mixing, add the caffeine, if desired. make sure the caffeine is completely dissolved. then add the caramel color. mix thoroughly. cola: to finish drink, take one part syrup and add 5 parts carbonated water .
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it' s also not clear why any mainstream artists would ever choose to release music under an oal. many bands objected to the way napster members circulated their music behind their backs, so why would they now allow unrestricted distribution, or consent to strangers fiddling round with their music? sure enough, you' re unlikely to have heard of any of the 20 bands that have posted music on the registry. it' s hard to avoid the conclusion that open audio amounts to little more than an opportunity for obscure artists to put themselves in the shop window .
the problems with open music, however, haven' t put people off trying open source methods elsewhere. encyclopedias, for example, look like fertile ground. like software, they' re collaborative and modular, need regular upgrading, and improve with peer review. but the first attempt, a free online reference called nupedia, hasn' t exactly taken off. two years on, only 25 of its target 60, 000 articles have been completed .
at the current rate it will never be a large encyclopedia ,
says editor - in - chief larry sanger. the main problem is that the experts sanger wants to recruit to write articles have little incentive to participate. they don' t score academic brownie points in the same way software engineers do for upgrading linux, and nupedia can' t pay them .
it' s a problem that' s inherent to most open source products: how do you get people to chip in? sanger says he' s exploring ways to make money out of nupedia while preserving the freedom of its content. banner adverts are a possibility. but his best hope is that academics start citing nupedia articles so authors can earn academic credit .
another experiment that' s proved its worth is the openlaw? project at the berkman center for internet and society at harvard law school. berkman lawyers specialise in cyberlaw - - hacking, copyright, encryption and so on - - and the centre has strong ties with the eff and the open source software community. in 1998 faculty member lawrence lessig, now at stanford law school, was asked by online publisher eldritch press to mount a legal challenge to us copyright law. eldritch takes books whose copyright has expired and publishes them on the web, but new legislation to extend copyright from 50 to 70 years after the author' s death was cutting off its supply of new material. lessig invited law students at harvard and elsewhere to help craft legal arguments challenging the new law on an online forum, which evolved into openlaw .
normal law firms write arguments the way commercial software companies write code. lawyers discuss a case behind closed doors, and although their final product is released in court, the discussions or
source code
that produced it remain secret. in contrast, openlaw crafts its arguments in public and releases them under a copyleft .
we deliberately used free software as a model ,
says wendy selzer, who took over openlaw when lessig moved to stanford. around 50 legal scholars now work on eldritch' s case, and openlaw has taken other cases, too .
the open content movement is still at an early stage and it' s hard to predict how far it will spread .
i' m not sure there are other areas where open source would work ,
says sanger .
if there were, we might have started it ourselves .
eric raymond has also expressed doubts. in his much - quoted 1997 essay, the cathedral and the bazaar, he warned against applying open source methods to other products .
music and most books are not like software, because they don' t generally need to be debugged or maintained ,
he wrote. without that need, the products gain little from others' scrutiny and reworking, so there' s little benefit in open sourcing .
i do not want to weaken the winning argument for open sourcing software by tying it to a potential loser ,
he wrote .
but raymond' s views have now shifted subtly .
i' m more willing to admit that i might talk about areas other than software someday ,
he told new scientist .
but not now .
the right time will be once open source software has won the battle of ideas, he says. he expects that to happen around 2005 .
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a distributed search engine is a search engine where there is no central server. unlike traditional centralized search engines, work such as crawling, data mining, indexing, and query processing is distributed among several peers in decentralized manner where there is no single point of control .
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kord campbell, igor stojanovski, and ledio ago started grub as an open source project in january 2000. looksmart acquired grub in 2003, and in july 2007, sold it to the short - lived wikia search project .
in april 2000 three programmers built a prototype p2p web search engine based on gnutella called infrasearch. it was meant to run inside the participating websites' databases creating a p2p network that could be accessed through the infrasearch website. infrasearch was acquired by sun microsystems in 2001 to become part of the search system for the open source urltoken jxta ] project. sun, and most its various subsidiaries and open source projects, was acquired by oracle in 2009. sadly, infrasearch founder gene kan passed away on june 29th, 2002 .
in february 2001 wolf garbe published an idea of a peer - to - peer search engine, started the faroo prototype in 2004, [ 10 ] and released it in 2005 .
on december 15, 2003 michael christen announced development of a p2p - based search engine, eventually named yacy, on the heise online forums. as of the january, 2016, the latest stable version was 1. 8, released september 16, 2014 .
in june 2003, doug cutting, and mike cafarella completed a 100 - million - page test system, and in 2005, the project was accepted into the apache foundation incubator program. later that year it became a sub - project of the lucene project, and in 2010, become an independent apache project. hadoop began as a mapreduce system and distributed file system that were implemented in the early years of the nutch project. current development of nutch is not orientated towards p2p search so much as distributed search across supercomputer clusters .
unless it' s moved off sourceforce, seeks never got out of beta. the latest version on sf (0. 4. 1) was released in 2013 .
in 2007 a group funded by the digital pioneers stimulation fund set up an open search foundation, but it went into hibernation after the 6 months of funding was up, producing only one beta release .
it seems clear from all the defunct projects that litter the pathway towards distributed search, including the companies above and the various defunct or moribund efforts to create user - edited directories (dmoz, wikia search), that p2p search is a difficult technical problem. of those projects that have survived, with the exception of faroo, all are free code projects with open source communities behind them. however, just adopting a free code license is not enough to save a project without a stable stewardship organisation to keep development moving .
the free code dooble browser has integrated yacy into its desktop software, and if a more popular browser such as mozilla firefox took the same approach - a more likely strategy now they' re no longer receiving funding from google - this may be the only way a p2p search engine can get the critical mass to become useful. it the p2p search project chosen followed the duckduckgo example of integrating metasearch of popular sites wikipedia, youtube, imdb, and so on, this could also help to populate the index with enough information to make it useful, and give it a starting point for ongoing web crawling .
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making soft drinks is not for the faint of heart, nor the dirty of finger. it is a solemn enterprise not to be entered into lightly, as with marriage or buying used farm machinery .
improper use of cola might result in blunt trauma, puncture wounds, physical illness, mental illness, caffeine dependency, dental necrosis, acid reflux, death, devastation, and random tax audits. or it might not .
a list of warnings has been provided below. we did not include them for * our * health - - we included them for * yours *. read them. know them. follow them. tattoo them to your backside .
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the basis for the whole thing is the 7x, top - seekrut formula. our sources tell us that 7x is the internal coca - cola codename for their syrup. you' ll note that the 7x formula contains * eight * ingredients: still more evidence of the deviousness of the soda gnomes .
as it turns out, mixing up a batch of cola' s pretty easy. finding the ingredients is damned hard. most of this file is about finding and handling ingredients so as to produce a tasty bevvy without blowing up your kitchen, melting your flesh off your bones, or poisoning yourself. as with all undertakings of great moment, read and understand the instructions before attempting to commit cola on your own. pay special attention to the
warnings
section .
this recipe is licensed under the gnu general public license. it is
open source
cola, or, if you prefer ,
free
cola. that means you' re free to use this recipe to make your own cola, or to make derivative colas. if you distribute derivative colas, you' re expected to send email to the recipe' s author, amanda foubister (
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3. 50 ml orange oil 1. 00 ml lemon oil 1. 00 ml nutmeg oil 1. 25 ml cassia oil 0. 25 ml coriander oil 0. 25 ml neroli oil 2. 75 ml lime oil 0. 25 ml lavender oil 10. 0 g gum arabic 3. 00 ml water
2. 00 tsp. 7x formula 3. 50 tsp. 75% phosphoric acid or citric acid 2. 28 l water 2. 36 kg plain granulated white table sugar 0. 50 tsp. caffeine (optional) 30. 0 ml caramel color
mix oils together in a cup. add gum arabic, mix with a spoon. add water and mix well. i used my trusty braun mixer for this step, mixing for 4 - 5 minutes. you can also transfer to a blender for this step. can be kept in a sealed glass jar in the fridge or at room temperature .
please note that this mixture will separate. the gum arabic is essential to this part of the recipe, as you are mixing oil and water .
in a one gallon container (i used the rubbermaid servin' saver dry food keeper, 1. 3 us gal / 4. 92 l), take 5 mls of the 7x formula, add the 75% phosphoric or citric acid. add the water, then the sugar. while mixing, add the caffeine, if desired. make sure the caffeine is completely dissolved. then add the caramel color. mix thoroughly .
to finish drink, take one part syrup and add 5 parts carbonated water .
measurement: i used a dropper purchased at a shoppers drug mart (normally used to measure infant portions of medicine, i believe) .
oils: oils can cause skin irritation. wear latex food - prep or surgical gloves. if oils come in contact with skin, wash with soap and water .
i purchased all oils from health food stores and the herbalist store, thuna' s (see notes on gum arabic) .
everything could have come from the herbalist' s. try for 100 percent pure, undiluted oils. i used oils from the following companies :
when i purchased the oils, i specifically asked whether they were food grade or not. all persons said that they were, one person said she used them internally all the time .
neroli is a very expensive item, be prepared (us $ 48. 52 for 5. 00 ml) .
all others were a more reasonable price (us $ 2 - 9. 30) .
gum arabic: it is very important that you get only * food - grade * gum arabic. there is also an * art - grade *, which is readily available at art supply stores - - * never use art - grade gum arabic! * art - grade gum arabic is toxic. it will make you ill. you' ll be sad. we' ll be sad .
i found food - grade gum arabic at an herbalist store in toronto called thuna' s (416) 461 - 8191. i purchased 112g for us $ 12. 46, which will make more than 11 batches of flavoring formula .
water: good old tap water will do, if you trust your tap. i used spring water .
75% phosphoric acid: due to its acidity, this product is corrosive to the eyes and skin. handle with gloved hands, and use extreme caution. if comes in contact with the eyes or skin, immediately flush with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes. get medical attention. rinse any spills on clothing or other surfaces thoroughly. store in a secure area. * do not * store more than 50. 0 ml .
try finding phosphoric acid at a compounding pharmacy in your area. there are pharmacies that still mix their own individual compounds and still stock phosphoric acid .
citric acid: very easy to find. i found mine at a shoppers drug mart (rougier pharma inc, quebec, canada j7j 1p3). says right on the label ,
for the preparation of acidulous drinks and effervescing draughts, and preservation of jams and jellies .
according to the coke history book, citric acid was used first in the formula, but they now use the phosphoric .
sugar: basic granulated white table sugar found everywhere. buy from a bulk store to save some money .
caffeine: it' s best not to store caffeine in * any * amount. caffeine can kill people in relatively small doses. the median lethal dose for an adult human is around 10 grams, or approximately one third of an ounce. you can find out more by reading the material safety data sheet (msds) for caffeine at urltoken. don' t yield to the temptation to create a
super - jolt
adding tons and tons of the white stuff to you cola, or you' ll be in a world of hurt. if stored, store in a secure area away from children. toxic by inhalation and ingestion: if inhaled, remove to fresh air. if ingested, call a physician. possible teratogen and mutagen. if product comes in contact with the eyes, flush with plenty of water. there is some great information on caffeine and it' s over - consumption at urltoken
caffeine is completely optional. i used part of a caffeine pill (mvp, urltoken), ground up in a pestle with a mortar. according to information on the pill bottle and on the web site, the pills are 100% caffeine. as an extra safety precaution, i strained all of the syrup through a 4 - ply of cheesecloth, in case any of the caffeine wasn' t dissolved .
caramel color: i found mine at a bakery supply store (world of cake decorating, 1766 weston road, toronto, ontario, canada 416 - 247 - 4935). i was originally told to use double strength caramel color, but couldn' t find it anywhere (retail or wholesale). it really only adds color, so it makes it a bit paler than we are used to coming out of a can or bottle. no other difference that we could discern during our taste - testing .
soda water: i purchased a soda charger and co2 cartridges at nikolaou' s (629 queen street west, toronto, ontario, canada 416 - 504 - 6411) to deliver the soda charge needed to make the cola fizzy. at testing, no one was impressed. what worked best was adding canned sodium - free (very important !) soda water to the syrup .
i fill each bottle 2 / 3 full, screw on the top, and leave for one or two weeks. each weekend i measure and add the syrup to a few bottles, top them off with water and stick them in the fridge .
this is a very quick operation. i had experimented with adding dry sugar, but this caused an excessive amount of foaming .
these are all associated with each of their ingredients, but they' re repeated here just to make sure. we' re not making this stuff up. cola is a harsh mistress, and she is quick to anger. heed the warnings below or proceed into certain peril .
oils: can cause skin irritation. if oils come in contact with skin, wash with soap and water .
gum arabic: it is very important that you get only * food - grade * gum arabic. there is also an * art - grade *, which is readily available at art supply stores - - * never use art - grade gum arabic! * art grade gum arabic is toxic. it will make you ill. you' ll be sad. we' ll be sad .
75% phosphoric acid: due to its acidity, this product is corrosive to the eyes and skin. handle with gloved hands, and use extreme caution. if comes in contact with the eyes or skin, immediately flush with plenty of water for at least 15 minutes. get medical attention. rinse any spills on clothing or other surfaces thoroughly. store in a secure area. * do not * store more than 50. 0 ml .
the 7x that i experimented with comes from the great coke history book, * for god, country, & coca - cola, * by mark pendergrast, basic books, 1993, 2000, isbn 0 - 465 - 05468 - 4. i know, i know. i list 8 oils, not 7. it notes in the book that many believe lavender to be part of the 7x formula, so i tried it. we liked it in testing .
special thanks to pharmacist david at the ida (queen west near jameson, toronto) for advice on phosphoric acid and chemistry .
thanks to barb holland and rose murray from foodland ontario for advice on various ingredients and general soda making .
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opencola was a toronto-based software company founded in 1999 by grad conn , cory doctorow and john henson to create " collaboration object lookup architecture " software , and sold in 2003 . the software and specifications produced were all released as open source . the earliest archived page of the company website described " opencola " as an application , a protocol , suite of tools , and the company itself . the opencola desktop client/server ( or " clerver " in opencola 's parlance ) application enabled users to collaboratively search , acquire , manage and share information from multiple data sources , including the internet , peers on the opencola network , and existing proprietary databases , from a single interface . opencola extended search engine capabilities with the ability to perform contextual searching – a process that searches the entire contextual subject matter of a document for relevance and tries to replenish previous searches with more relevant results . searches would propagate throughout the network as needed to locate the specified content . the company funded further development of and released justin chapweske 's swarmcast , then released it as gpl software may 18 , 2001 . the software used peer-to-peer swarming techniques similar to bittorrent to accelerate distribution of large high-volume ( frequently accessed ) content , as a way to reduce load on source servers , with emphasis on content streaming . the company 's folders project used swarmcast technology to accelerate content distribution within organizations . in summer 2003 , the company was sold to open text corporation of waterloo , ontario . 
opencola was a toronto-based software company founded in 1999 by grad conn, cory doctorow and john henson to create " collaboration object lookup architecture " software, and sold in 2003. the software and specifications produced were all released as open source. the earliest archived page of the company website described " opencola " as an application, a protocol, suite of tools, and the company itself. the opencola desktop client/server (or " clerver " in opencola's parlance) application enabled users to collaboratively search, acquire, manage and share information from multiple data sources, including the internet, peers on the opencola network, and existing proprietary databases, from a single interface. opencola extended search engine capabilities with the ability to perform contextual searching – a process that searches the entire contextual subject matter of a document for relevance and tries to replenish previous searches with more relevant results. searches would propagate throughout the network as needed to locate the specified content. the company funded further development of and released justin chapweske's swarmcast, then released it as gpl software may 18, 2001. the software used peer-to-peer swarming techniques similar to bittorrent to accelerate distribution of large high-volume (frequently accessed) content, as a way to reduce load on source servers, with emphasis on content streaming. the company's folders project used swarmcast technology to accelerate content distribution within organizations. in summer 2003, the company was sold to open text corporation of waterloo, ontario.
opencola was a toronto-based software company founded in 1999 by grad conn, cory doctorow and john henson to create " collaboration object lookup architecture " software, and sold in 2003. the software and specifications produced were all released as open source. the earliest archived page of the company website described " opencola " as an application, a protocol, suite of tools, and the company itself. the opencola desktop client/server (or " clerver " in opencola's parlance) application enabled users to collaboratively search, acquire, manage and share information from multiple data sources, including the internet, peers on the opencola network, and existing proprietary databases, from a single interface. opencola extended search engine capabilities with the ability to perform contextual searching – a process that searches the entire contextual subject matter of a document for relevance and tries to replenish previous searches with more relevant results. searches would propagate throughout the network as needed to locate the specified content. the company funded further development of and released justin chapweske's swarmcast, then released it as gpl software may 18, 2001. the software used peer-to-peer swarming techniques similar to bittorrent to accelerate distribution of large high-volume (frequently accessed) content, as a way to reduce load on source servers, with emphasis on content streaming. the company's folders project used swarmcast technology to accelerate content distribution within organizations. in summer 2003, the company was sold to open text corporation of waterloo, ontario.