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I need help from other developers! I’m creating an aggregator that does the following.

1. Keeps an OPML file of all your content in a centralized location.
2. Checks with a server that keeps track of when your blogs were updated, and when you read them.
3. When fetching content, privately looks to peers for content. If it doesn’t find it, grabs it from the originating site.

This basically solves all of the bandwidth problems with the current syndication scheme. The service provided by the centralized server will be much more lightweight than Bloglines, and will serve as a hybrid news notifier and Bittorrent tracker server. Aggregators would all be Bittorrent clients that did the downloading seamlessly in the background. As far as outward appearances go, it will breathe and act like a normal aggregator.

If so inclined it will handle different mime-types accordingly, and put different types of content (even depending on the channel) in user-defined folders. A plugin system will let people handle the audio in iTunes, Windows Media Player, ZINF, or wherever they like once the content is downloaded.