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Facebook Creator To Debut Wirehog | News | The Harvard Crimson

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Thefacebook.com, the social networking website which has spread across campuses from Harvard to CalTech, eclipsed half a million users yesterday as the site’s creator prepared to unveil his latest project—a file-sharing program integrated with its predecessor. The program, named Wirehog, allows digital “friends” to connect to each other’s computers and download files, from documents to music to movies. A preliminary version of Wirehog was released by invitation-only last week. Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07, thefacebook.com founder and Wirehog co-creator, said an official public release of the program is scheduled for early November once bugs in the current version are rectified. Unlike popular file-sharing programs such as Kazaa and Morpheus, which allow users to search and download among a worldwide network of computers, Wirehog only facilitates downloading between two acquaintances in a fashion more akin to the file-transfer feature on instant messaging programs. But Wirehog could garne

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