AllPeers Is The FireFox “Killer App”

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1. Jeremy Chone
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 am

   Can’t wait to get it. This is something I wanted for a long time. While today’s Flickrs are pretty good, I still have issues sharing photo and movies with my family. I hope this will help.

   I also hope Allpeers will provide integration APIs.

   Glad to see P2P entering the Web 2.0 ecosphere.

2. Cedric
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 10:25 am

   Mike,

   Great speaking with you! May I just say that we are not using a “bittorent-like technology” but that AllPeers is actually a complete BitTorrent client.

   Best wishes and look for that beta test invitation coming VERY soon in your Inbox

   Cedric.

3. Duc
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 10:52 am

   I hope my beta test invitation is “coming VERY soon” too.

4. Michael Arrington
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 11:08 am

   Cedric, Thanks for the clarification. I made changes to the text above.

5. DrDel
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 11:50 am

   looks pretty sweet

   I hope my beta invite is “coming very soon” too…

6. Boris Mann
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 12:24 pm

   What’s powering the buddylist? If they use XMPP, they would be a few steps away from integrating a full chat client (with voice and video support soon courtesy of JINGLE / Google Talk).

7. Bob
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 12:41 pm

   Doesn’t it occur to anyone that a ‘UK company’ based on Prague might be slightly dodgy?

8. Apreche
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 12:48 pm

   Thank god! I’ve had so much trouble sharing files with friends since leaving college. All the good p2p networks are dead. Bittorrent is only good for sharing big things with many people. E-mail attachments suck. And IM file transfers are unreliable as hell. FTP servers are client-server not p2p. I’m just itching to get my hands on allpeers, finally p2p sharing that is teh awesome.

9. Chris Messina
   

   January 3rd, 2006 at 12:55 pm

   Damn, can’t wait for this to hit Flock. Totally awesome stuff.

10. Randy Charles Morin
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 1:44 pm

    How we love to re-invent the wheel 3 years later. This looks like Opencola’s buddy browser. RIP.

11. Sid Steward
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    It’s worth noting that Microsoft recently bought FolderShare (http://www.foldershare.com/), a similar service praised by Mossberg:

    http://ptech.wsj.com/archive/ptech-20050901.html

12. Matthew Price
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 3:08 pm

    O man, what a cool looking extension! I’m all for applications that allow me to easily share files. This app has one feature that I think is all too comonly overlooked in the web 2.0 sphere and that is the ability to privately share content. I wonder if it will be OS X compatible.

13. Joe
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 4:12 pm

    Ummm, it seems like bit torrent won’t be terribly useful for sharing “family pics” I mean how many downloaders can you possibly have? Which makes me wonder who the real market is:)

14. bdeseattle
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 4:55 pm

    Coolness. I know Matt from back in the early days of the ebXML and related XML standards back in the 2000 timeframe. Hopefully he’ll see this and get me one of them beta accounts before everyone else. hehehe Way to go Matt! Best of luck in 2006 and onward! Can’t wait to take this tech for a spin!

15. John Dowdell
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 5:02 pm

    Is there any protection against a buddy becoming infected, and unknowingly offering tainted files to their friends?

16. Jay Currie
    

    January 3rd, 2006 at 6:25 pm

    To quote my own blog,

    “Here’s a nifty little extension for Firefox which lets you share the contents of your media files with your friends. P2P without the public - or the RIAA house detectives - able to see what you are sharing.

    With broadband and this sort of private, virus/adware/malware free, enviornment my CD collection is your CD collection…Brilliant and another reason why the current copyright regime is doomed.”

17. Quirm
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 12:24 am

    Why to use Explorer, firefox and extensions is all what we need

18. jollyrulez
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 12:29 am

    A great idea for a great browser. Cant wait to chk it out.

19. Joe Anderson
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 2:01 am

    This looks great - I’d love to try it, though I somewhat doubt I’ll get chosen.

20. leafar
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 3:06 am

    I had the pleasure to meet with the founders thanks to Alban.
    It’s great technology with great guys behind it !!!!!

    Best sucess for them in 2006.

21. Sean
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 4:05 am

    If this meets expectations I am sure it will be the last nail in IE’s coffin. This will be incredible.

22. Vishal
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 4:28 am

    This is deadly, believe me, this will not only hurt IE but also hurt winodows o/p system, whose file sharing and visibility with ease is also a good selling point.
    If this is what these guys promise, I reckon firefox will become hugely popular. I’m more than happy to buy shares in Mozilla and AllPeers, if they go publicly listed. Belive me Returns on this will be more as compared to Google in short time.
    Can’t wait for it.

23. ultrasupergenius
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 6:52 am

    This looks like an amazing extension. I think the most interesting prospect is the fact that users are bound to find uses for this above and beyond the expectations of the creators… I am excited.

24. Aksel
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 7:03 am

    This looks so wicked! Sucks its invite only I’ll be sure to get it when it releases

25. Ike Ahnoklast
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 7:04 am

    Cool - this sounds attractive and definitely has potential. Will this extension be Open Source? How do we know it’s secure? What will we do when it’s compromised and the script kiddies are enthusiastically exploiting some vulnerability to crack our computers? Will we be able to fix it ourselves or will we have to beg you for a patch and then wait around until one is supplied?

26. Rick Richardson
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 7:26 am

    Servers are not allowed on RoadRunner. Read the TOS.

27. geo
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 7:51 am

    #13 are you a retard? this IS bitorrent. sigh.

28. Poodol
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 8:06 am

    This looks amazing, I’d love to be able to share my photo’s that easily.

    Amazing extension for an amazing browser!

29. Pendragon
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 8:45 am

    As a member of a clan I can see us making great use of this. Sharing maps, mods and game updates. This is going to be a great hit, just have to get the rest of the guys into Firefox. This should be a no-brainer…

    http://www.tssclan.co.uk

30. PerfDave
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    How is this an improvement on WASTE? Seems like it’s reinventing the wheel a little.

31. TechToy501
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 9:02 am

    UK company based in Prague, but domain registration contact in France???

    Registrant: Make this info private
    RWCM LTD
    Le Clos Valfere
    Route De Capon Le Pinet
    SAINT TROPEZ, 83990
    FR

    Domain Name: ALLPEERS.COM

    Administrative Contact :
    RWCM LTD
    cmaloux@yahoo.co.uk
    Le Clos Valfere
    Route De Capon Le Pinet
    SAINT TROPEZ, 83990
    FR
    Phone: +33442521957

    Technical Contact :
    ABRICOO SARL
    contact@abricoo.com
    112 Avenue De Paris
    VINCENNES, 94300
    FR
    Phone: +33143651501

    Record expires on 15-Mar-2006
    Record created on 15-Mar-2003
    Database last updated on 08-Mar-2005

32. ruaraidh
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 10:33 am

    I doubt that one extension will really expand marketshare much. Honestly, this doesn’t appeal to me - I have email & IRC to contact friends, why would I want it? More overhyped “web 2.0″ rubbish, in my manifestly superior opinion ;).

33. Ladislav
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 10:36 am

    Prague, Saint Tropez, UK, all Old Europe,
    all EU.
    This must be Americans ….

    Would you worry about a company having headquarters in Atlanta and Development Labs in Los Angeles area?

34. Apple
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 10:43 am

    I don’t mean to put a damper on everyone’s enthusiam for this software, but the first thing that ran through my mind after reading this post was that this app could easily become a security nightmare. Maybe I’m wrong, but it sure doesn’t sound like the developers of this app or the author of this article have given any thought to the potential abuses of this technology. For everyone’s sake, I hope security will not be an afterthought for this product (as is typical for most software these days).

35. JX
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    AWESOME! Now, how do I get this cool extension? Invites? Mailing list? Yes, I didn’t read that part

36. Jeff Eckhaus
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 11:30 am

    This is the best blog ever!!!

37. Henrik Gemal
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 12:35 pm

    Please, its spelled Firefox NOT FireFox…

38. foouser
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    There must be at least 1 central server to maintain the IP address references. A 100% P2P is too costly in computing powers to the peer’s side.

39. Frank Gebhardt
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 3:00 pm

    This extension sounds like a corporate nightmare to me. Have the founders thought about Intellectual Property on corporate networks? Or that companies use their internet bandwidth / traffic allowance for business critical applications and data transfers? What about quality of service on corporate networks, prioritising of traffic, firewalling needs, proxy requirements, virus/spam/grayware/adware transmission? That extension has the capability of the biggest time waster ever on employee’s workstations.

40. Nik Cubrilovic
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

    This is what BitTorrent should have done with the $ they got

41. Ez
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 5:00 pm

    Bit Torrent stinks for small private networks….why is this getting so much hype????

42. Lou Schilling
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 7:16 pm

    #74 This will immediately be banned on corporate networks that care about security. Not only the security implications, but what an employee time waster to boot.

    #42 & #44 Not likely. IE still has 85+% share of the browser market for one reason: corporations standardize on it, and will be very slow to change. What you use at home is irrelevant to toppling IE’s dominance.

    This is a bunch of over-hype ….. “take the world by storm” … hardly.

43. Daniel
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 9:24 pm

    Well what everybody was waiting for!! The best browser with what seems to be a great option in file sharing applications (if not the best too!!) Everybody has had the need to send files to a friend or family and with this client, things might just get a little bit easier and of course at home it will rock!! Congrats for that great idea!!

44. jedaichoi
    

    January 4th, 2006 at 10:15 pm

    It’s very exciting and i have thoughts and want to develope it . The enfra(www.enfra.net) already launched beta released service that have a very similar idea , although it’s not firefox extensions. Maybe they are going to develope the fire fox extension version of enfra with the experience of current enfra beta release

45. Rick
    

    January 5th, 2006 at 12:17 am

    No doubt this will be a powerful extention, privacy/copyright/waste-of-time issues aside. AllPeers is not the root of these problems, so why bash them? A tool to make file sharing easy direct from the browser? What’s not to like? Will it topple IE? Probably not but hell, it will make FF a “home” browser of choice, imho.

46. dianayong
    

    January 5th, 2006 at 12:58 am

    what do you think of the difference between allpeers.com , grouper.com and enfra.net ? i already know beinsync.com ,foldershare.com and mionet.com .

47. Michael Arrington
    

    January 5th, 2006 at 1:35 am

    Diana (#83) - I don’t know yet…I haven’t been able to test allpeers yet but the promise is there. Grouper isn’t really a p2p application in the same way as allpeers (although I like Grouper a lot). Foldershare is good but really only for people you really trust, and you have to do some setup, and it won’t work on network drives (seriously limiting its usefullness). I have no idea what mionet is.

48. Marty Lamb
    

    January 5th, 2006 at 5:30 am

    Similar (but scaled-back!) functionality is available at http://nearshare.net , which I am currently alpha testing. Nearshare is only for sharing files on your LAN, so it doesn’t serve all the same needs, but it beats emailing files locally or running around with a USB flash drive.

    Works in firefox and ie on windows, firefox on linux. If you’re feeling adventurous, I could use more testers.

    - Marty

49. OBM
    

    January 6th, 2006 at 1:28 am

    woop-di-do. another buddy list and some sharing capabilities. Just like Microsofts ThirdSpace a while back, and promised for Live Messenger.

    Nothing really new here, and needs yet another buddy sign-up. Look how well Jabber and Google Talk have done getting people to migrate from MSN and Yahoo buddy lists!

    Nice that it brings together a bunch of different clients, but as a firefox bolt-on it’s not the killer app that’ll have people deserting IE - if they didn’t need Firefox up until now a new way to share snaps of their granny isn’t going to be the tipping point!

50. Michael Liubinskas
    

    January 6th, 2006 at 5:40 pm

    Sounds interesting. Looking forward to trialing it.

    Although their web site has said “Coming Soon” for more than a year…

    http://web.archive.org/web/200.....peers.com/

51. Cedric
    

    January 7th, 2006 at 4:38 am

    Michael (#92): you are linking to a page announcing the release of the previous version of AllPeers which was released early 2005.

    This was a windows-only (MFC) application which has since been discontinued to be replaced by the new Mozilla version.

52. Brandon
    

    January 11th, 2006 at 9:05 am

    When is this thing going to be released

53. Marc A. Meyer
    

    January 11th, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    Interesting app, but it is kind of funny that it is being touted as a killer app for Firefox. In fact it uses the browser just as a UI device for what might as well be another desktop app interface for bittorrent.

    What is interesting is that this shows that Firefox has now got enough clout to be a competetive platform just for doing a UI.

54. Dan McTaggart
    

    January 28th, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    Hi, please contact me for discussion about producing Network Broadcast television using this technology.

    Thank you,
    Dan McTaggart

55. varun krishnan
    

    February 3rd, 2006 at 8:22 am

    wonderfull extension..best ever !

56. ticks
    

    February 10th, 2006 at 8:19 am

    In response to Michael Arrington’s comment no.84, I have tried MioNet and it is pretty cool. You can use it for remote desktop access, remote camera access, and remote access into your file system. You can also share any of these. I have it installed on 4 of my computers - its great. You have to try it. You can get it at download.com or http://www.mionet.com.

57. Quell
    

    February 17th, 2006 at 12:12 pm

    Wow, seems like an awesome product. I can’t wait to try it out.

58. Michael Richard
    

    February 27th, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    Very very cool indeed! Just another reason to love Firefox. Looking forward to the beta!

59. Keith Dsouza
    

    March 14th, 2006 at 3:18 am

    Yea looks good have signed up for their beta service, hope they go live soon

60. distributed
    

    March 16th, 2006 at 9:18 am

    Alongside the utility, AllPeers fosters the idea of distributed computing and peer to peer technology. Each machine becomes a server of sorts..

    The challenge is to find information in real time from a multitude of adhoc machines, but what is smart about the contrary.

    Google is going back in time and creating centralized computing instead of distributed computing is pathetic. What Google is trying from economics point of view resembles the old Soviet model. From computing point of view it resembles mainframe sort of machine with CICS (Customer Information Control System) from IBM in 1970. What a irony that people wanted to move from green screen dumb terminals and now Google with others wants to introduce it back again in the form of thin clients..

    Viva AllPeers team!!
    Distributed

61. Replication Guide
    

    March 21st, 2006 at 11:25 am

    This is very interesting. I wonder if it could be used as a LiveMeeting or Webseminar type replacement to allow me to share ppt’s, etc?

62. xujie
    

    April 25th, 2006 at 4:30 am

    Do you have an invitation?
    I need one ,thank you ~~~
    my Email address;xujie8410@gmail.com

63. Stephen G
    

    July 28th, 2006 at 9:55 am

    After signing up for the AllPeers beta several months ago, today I got my invite/activation code …

64. TechTweaker
    

    August 11th, 2006 at 1:31 am

    I received my invite and activation code today.

65. José Pedro Montes Durán
    

    August 27th, 2006 at 3:54 pm

    Acabo de iniciarme en esta página y espero la invitación para integrarme y así activar el código.

66. krokan
    

    September 19th, 2006 at 4:56 am

    New AllPears forum .. find what you are looking for.. http://allpeers.wz.cz/

67. allpeers
    

    December 15th, 2006 at 5:30 am

    Check This OUT !!! (New version just for u!!)

    http://www.allpeers.hu/allpeer.....amp;sid=29