Metalink is a project created by a good friend Anthony Bryan that I have been trying to find time lately to work on. I could easily make the claim as I did in the title of this post, but I really believe it.
It can be a little hard to explain what exactly Metalink is and does, Linux.com recently wrote an article that explained the process well, so I’ll steal from their description and just say that Metalink is an open source framework that any piece of software can use to greatly increase the speed of which they download files from the web.
Right now Anthony is trying to evangelize the idea and trying to increase adoption of the framework in various applications. I will be trying to help him communicate his ideas visually, which means working on Metalink’s identity, web site and some information graphics along the way.
As I work on the project more I’ll be posting along the way to try and document the whole process.