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February 16, 2006

AllPeers is Coming; Exclusive Screenshots

Michael Arrington

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Prague based Allpeers cofounder Matthew Gertner came by my house today to install the product and let me try it out.

Allpeers is a Firefox extension that creates a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser. Initially, interaction with those buddies will be limited to discovering and sharing files - If you choose to, you can share any file on your network with one or more of your friends. They will be able to see what files you choose to share (even getting an RSS feed of new files you include), and with a single click download it to their own hard drive.

See my original post on Allpeers for more information.

Matt took me through installation and setup of the product, and he shared a number of files with me. The interface for adding friends and sharing files is intuitive. Adding a file into Allpeers requires only dragging it from the hard drive into the browser, and sharing the file requires only a single click.

The service is not yet freely available, and Matt says that 35,000 people have requested to be notified by email when the service goes live.

As I wrote before, Allpeers is the “Killer App” for Firefox - Mozilla based Flock and Songbird should immediately be working to convert the basic Allpeers extension to work on their platforms as well.

Allpeers will be launching by the end of March 2006.




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  1. CetaMac

    February 16th, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    Would this refer to a “OnlineBt”, or anohter ranking system similar with Edonkey? If that so, the resource would be better that contain online but not on the hard disk.

  2. Kevin Burton

    February 16th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    Cool. Social Porn 2.0!

    :)

  3. Nameless One

    February 16th, 2006 at 4:34 pm

    I dont get this. Why would I want to combine P2P with my browser? The two have nothing to do with each other. I have P2P apps that do a damn good job at what they are intended for. I have no need or desire to run P2P inside my browser.

    Quite frankly, it makes no sense at all.

  4. arjun

    February 16th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    this is definitely neat, and it’ll be interesting to see if other mozilla services adopt the platform…but is this a ‘killer app’ for firefox?

    hardly.

  5. Chris

    February 16th, 2006 at 4:39 pm

    I agree with #3. What does this add to the internet and how do they plan to make any money off of this. There are so many programs or websites to allow people to share videos, pictures, etc that don’t require installing Firefox AND an extension. Why not just make a seperate app or simply share it on one the hundreds of file sharing websites out there.

    What’s the big deal!?? Am I simply missing something?

  6. Neil Halelamien

    February 16th, 2006 at 6:24 pm

    I have a suspicion that a future version of Google Desktop (or gmail?) will probably end up having a functionality similar to AllPeers.

  7. Chris

    February 16th, 2006 at 6:44 pm

    Innovation can come from combining common existing technologies.

    AllPeers seems to me to be a simple Extension to a widely available browser. Besides the buddy list oriented sharing, the RSS feed feature is the most interesting to me.

    I’m willing to give it a try.

  8. Tris Hussey

    February 16th, 2006 at 6:51 pm

    Killer app or not they’ve done a great job at building buzz and getting people to sign up for the beta (myself included). I’ll certainly try it out.

    As for GDS having this in the future … uh huh … maybe so … and where do you think they might get such technology?

  9. Andrew

    February 16th, 2006 at 8:43 pm

    So is this just like Foldershare (recently acquired and released as freeware by Microsoft)?

    I like Foldershare as it works in the background with no user intervention required.

    This seems like just a kludgey version of it. Am I missing something?

  10. bonhamled

    February 17th, 2006 at 12:59 am

    it woild be very interesting to create a social network between me and myself (for instance at work and at home) to share files.

    When will this be for using?

  11. Joe Anderson

    February 18th, 2006 at 1:26 am

    I want it now. :(

  12. Larry

    February 18th, 2006 at 9:47 am

    Too bad Pando (www.pando.com/beta) has been doing this with BitTorrent for several months now with a better service that also has backup online storage so both users don’t have to be online or on each other’s “buddy lists”. You also dont have to use Firefox. You can email anyone, anything, up to 1GB with your own email account. It’s still a little flaky (private beta testing) but Allpeers needs to play serious catch up to get me to switch.

  13. CetaMac

    February 18th, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    yup, Joe Anderson, I’m wait for it now, before ISP blocks the bt stream.

  14. aunt lucy

    February 21st, 2006 at 6:23 am

    Larry, Allpeers is good idea precisely BACAUSE IT IS A FIREFOX EXTENSION :)

  15. András Bártházi

    February 21st, 2006 at 7:01 am

    It’s a quite nice extension. Some people will use it and some will not. That is what extension are about. :)

    I like the idea, and it’s not about it is builded into Firefox or it is a standalone app. The power of this application is that it’s platform independent. You can use it under Windows, but under Linux and Mac OS X, too. On Linux at work, Windows at home or vice versa. GDS and MS’s solution is not platform independent.

    And for understanding the idea, as I read it, it’s not about sharing files for the whole internet, but for people you’re related to. Have you tried uploading your pictures or share your documents with your friends? There are some solution for photos, but I don’t know a good one for files. *This* sounds like a good one for files.

  16. Bob Villa

    March 7th, 2006 at 10:47 am

    Active file sharing with a buddy list? That functionality already exists in the new MSN Messenger beta.

    And in the case of Messenger, my network is already in place. With one click I can establish a sharing relationship.

    As a previous comment mentioned, why do I need this in a browser. It’s solving a problem that doesn’t exist. I prefer this solution in my IM client.

  17. lucien lacombe

    March 15th, 2006 at 5:02 pm

    I spend 99% of my computer time at home with firefox doing browsing so the more extensions I have the better I feel.

    I’m really fed-up to install/des-install all this different programs all the time.

    So, it’s great idea and like the rss feed.

    “Bien ouej cedric”

  18. ro2nie

    March 25th, 2006 at 5:24 pm

    Originally posted by Bob Villa

    MSN messenger has a bandwidth limit and the connection is not peer to peer. The speeds are really really slow!

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