UK/Prague-based AllPeers is a Firefox extension that will allow for group P2P file sharing using the browser. A persistent buddy list in a sidebar is created. Files can be shared with those buddies by dragging a file, folder or URL into their name. It’s just as easy to share the file with multiple people. The core technology is based on bittorent.
We’ve followed Allpeers through the initial rumors, first public screenshots and their March venture funding by Mangrove Capital and Index Ventures.
They’ve kept quiet recently, saying they’ve been making small changes to their interface and big changes to their infrastructure to handle scaling issues at launch. I’ve been testing the product with co-founder Matthew Gertner – this is going to be a very popular application. Very large (video) files transfered in my tests without difficulty, including after repeatedly shutting down the browser mid-transfer. Like other bittorent clients, the transfer picked back up again after relaunch.
The company won’t say when they are launching, but they’ve been bleeding in beta users for a few weeks and the date is clearly not that far away. They’ve also said they’ll allow me to give 50 300 immediate access accounts away immediately – these are first come, first serve in the comments. Just give me the email address you want to use, in the comment.
A potential competitor in this space is Zapr, which we recently covered. Zapr is handling file sharing via a stand alone client. AllPeers says they’ll have a non-browser client as well, later this year.
I would love to try it out. Thanks Michael!
I would love an invitation to test out AllPeers! Please send to kskobac@yahoo.com if you have one.
need email address, in the comment.
I had put it in the comment field but here it is: tech@cybernetnews.com
Me too, Allpeers sounds neat
stefanbjarni@hotmail.com
How is it compared to Pando? If anybody tests it, can you post it here. Any compelling case to switch to?
I would like an invitation: erwin@hoonhorst.nl
Thanx in advance
Thanks Ryan. It’s not me who’ll be doing the invites, and they don’t have access to the email address because it’s hidden.
Hi Michael!
I’ve been waiting to test AllPeers for a long time! I would be glad to receive an invitation. My e-mail is: nick AT inf.ufrgs.br
Thank you,
Nick Vidal
Hi Michael,
I would like to get invitation to AllPeers, but only if it works on mac firefox as I am not in the posession of windows PC. Thanks in advance.
Hi Mike –
I’ll take one!
allpeers@kopelman.com
Josh
dainius76@mac.com
I wish this comments section will focus discussion on acutal topic rather than on invite requests.
Thanks for the invites. Mee too!
I’d love to try it!
coulterjohnson@yahoo.com
i’d love an invite.
xxdesmus AT gee mail.com
oh please me !
i like this idea and want to try
thanks
bastien.quelen@gmail.com
Nice idea, I’d like to give it a try too. commweb AT gmail.com. Cheers.
err thats lwhittaker (at) (g)(mail)(dot)(com)
Of course an invite here if any will be left
Grrrr…razvan.antonescu@gmail.com
Thanks, Michael.
mahoski@gmail.com
I would like to test it out too
shuki@haiminisholdings.com
Thanks
I’ll go for one of those please.
giginger@gmail.com
jnewland (at) gmail (dot) com
Thanks!
Oooooh, yes please!
matthendrix@gmail.com
To briefly address the question of how we contrast with Pando and other P2P filesharing clients: the key difference is that we are constructing a new web browser experience that blurs the line between normal web content and content that comes from your friends and family. With a standalone client, you get the advantages of P2P (much more efficient, ability to share with precisely who you want, no file limits, etc.) but with a user interface that pales in comparison to a fully-featured web browser. What we’re doing is to create what basically amounts to a new generation web browser, where you get all the power of Firefox plus a bunch of new P2P capabilities.
You can already see the advantage of our approach in the way we let you share webpages, images and text from the web with a simple drag-n-share operation. This will become even more apparent as we extend our feature set to enable better integration with media-focused websites.
With regard to Pando specifically, my feeling is that in most cases I don’t want better email attachments, I want a better overall approach to receiving and managing media content that people share with me. The AllPeers buddy list is kind of like an RSS reader where every contact is a feed. Experience with RSS has shown that this type of organization is much more convenient than pouring everything (normal mails, shared files, spam, work-related stuff, etc.) into a single chronologically organized inbox.
Another advantage is that we don’t rely on .NET, as many simple file sharings client do, so we run on Mac (PPC and Intel) and Linux as well as Windows.
coldpie@gmail.com
thanks.
“Best thing happenned to firefox since firefox? ”
huh…Too ggressive, lines like these tend to be counteractive most of the time.
Most of the time, users give these lines, not the companies themselves, at the least they should have waited for the product release and for the initial repose. Let’s see.
engsoc11@hotmail.com
I would kiss you on the mouth for an invite! chance.mcclain@gmail.com!!!
myprdx @ yahoo . com
Thanks!
I’d love one of those, thanks!
superkicky@gmail.com
We’ll get to discussing as soon as we can see how it works
ctoudic [ at ] yahoo.fr
Many thanks.
I’d love one as well – droskill at hotmail dot com. Thanks!
allpeersbeta [at] loosemore [dot] com
Hit me! ~ bmurphy1984 [at] gmail [dot] com
Count me in
juniorbonner at gmail.com
cheers
i’d like an invitation : torgeir dot waterhouse at gmail dot com
sdotson at yahoo dot com thanks…
I’ll be gald to test it.
Thanks.
Sorry about that -
idanmashaal [at] gmail [dot] com
would like an invitation too sjors.timer at xs4all dot nl
Invite would be smashing thanks
klonkd at yahoo de, thanx!
made a typo, right adress is: sjors.timmer (at) xs4all (dot) nl
Go on, you know you want to.
Invitation please:)
rob.flate (at) gmail (dot) com