New Scientist offers a brief article with several quotations from OpenCola founder Cory Doctorow. He claims running code will be released "later in 2002", but I'm not holding my breath.

Perhaps more interesting than Swarmcast's technical utility is its striking ability to attract loads of media attention that propagates unchecked claims of "infinite scalability". Considering that they apparently plan to use the Reed-Solomon FEC library I logged recently, I have much doubt in the "infinite" scalability claim.

Yet more hype for Swarmcast vaporware