You can find (almost) anything you want on the Web. But how do you know how to find it, how do you know that you should be looking for it, how do you know what you want before you’ve seen that it’s out there, and how do you get the ‘freshest’ information on topics you’re deeply interested in?

A researcher nails a piece of fresh, cogent information and is immediately burdened with the task of communicating it to his colleagues – by the time he finishes, the information has grown stale. Multiple researchers in different locations duplicate each other's efforts, and researchers with unique knowledge take it with them when they leave the organization

OpenCola is a system of collaborative, distributed agents which can run behind an organization's firewall. Used inside a research organization, OpenCola aggregates, stores and forwards the intellectual assets of the research staff, providing information at a hitherto untold depth and freshness.

OpenCola Folders constantly search for information you’ve said you like. Once an OpenCola Folder has been told what to search for, it continues to search until you tell it to stop.

OpenCola is also working on a high-speed content distribution system for large files called Swarmcast. Essentially, Swarmcast splits a file up into small packets and leverages the bandwidth of users who are currently or have just finished downloading that file to simultaneously serve parts of the file to the next user who requests it.