Another P2P protocol to watch out for Audio/video streaming: ByteTornado

Seems very promising. Haven't tried it yet, but will. If what they claim is true (speeds of up to 600Kb/s and up vs. only 100Kb/s with bittorrent), this seems a very promising technology for video-on-demand providers, and videocasters.

The FAQ page has more information, in particular:

ByteTornado is a complete own network. We are very open to emule-project and if there is any request we exchange network protocols and whatever. We decided not to use the edonkey-network to avoid any disturbance of that great filesharing system.
However some is similar, some is different. What emule does with files (share), BT does with realtime AV-Streams. You don`t search for files, you search for channels. You don`t download, you receive streams. At the end of the day it is somewhere all the same, even when some guys arrange their emule-videos to a new TV-Channel.

Simplified: You share bytes with others.

The same folks have developped an online PVR, ie. you get 60Gb (giga-bytes) to record and store any live feed from TV on the network. Said differently, a hosted TiVO, ASP-mode.
You can then either download it or stream it to your PC, mobile phone, etc... Cool huh ? Imagine blending that with Marc Canter's Ourmedia.org...

From their page:

What is an "online TV Recorder?
your „virtually“ Personal-Videorecorder in the internet. A new technique of recording TV Shows and for worldwide remote access to your recordings.  

What do I need?
Only an Internet-Access (Broadband is fine, but not mandatory)
You need NO tv-card, NO tv-capture software, NO tv, NO video-recorder, NO harddisk recorder  

How does it work?
1. Visit www.onlineTVrecorder.com , enter Station, Start-Date/Time, Duration in a webform.
2. After successful Recording you receive an Email and download the movie to PC, Handy or in your office. If you have broadband you can immediate watch during download. All kind of internet access is supported: PC, PDA, mobile/WAP
Or simply ask a friend by phone to enter the webform and start a recording job.
Or simply send an email or SMS.

Orb! Here comes competition...