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May 17 2007 12:57PM EDT

Yossi Vardi and Faster YouTube Viewing

Heard from Yossi Vardi, who has been a ubiquitous force in Silicon Valley's tech community for the past two decades despite being based in Israel. Vardi is best-known for being a founder of the company that created ICQ, the forefather of all Internet instant messaging.

Anyway, Vardi has a company called Speedbit that's been around for some time. But it has a brand new product that is apparently catching on like crazy. It is called the Video Accelerator, and it promises to vastly speed up video downloads on sites such as YouTube. You download Video Accelerator, and then when you click on a YouTube video, the software opens up dozens of parallel connections and uses each to pull in part of the video. It's like drinking a milkshake through 20 straws at once instead of just one.

It may not be the most earth-shaking technology to ever hit the Web, but it at least seems to ease a pain point.

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