Word: wirehog
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...added that when he returns to the College would partially be determined by the popularity of Wirehog; the less popular the site, the more likely his return for the spring semester...
Unlike Napster and other similar programs, Zuckerberg said, Wirehog was not designed to allow for the illegal distribution of copyrighted materials. Rather, he said, he envisioned his site as a venue for friends to upload and share personal files, like pictures...
...Wirehog software will be downloadable to a personal computer from the website www.wirehog.com. When the software is initially launched, it will search the user’s computer and upload certain default files like music to a user’s Wirehog page on the internet, Zuckerberg said. Users will be able choose to upload other files...
Once the website is set up, other Wirehog users can download files to their own computers...
...Chester French comes out with a bunch of new music at Wirehog, they’ll upload it and their friends will get it. There will be an advertising mechanism to see what’s hot in the network,” Zuckerberg said. “It gives people who don’t really have an advertising network a chance to get their stuff...