AllPeers, a Firefox P2P file sharing plugin, had incredible hype when it launched in August (the rumors had been around for nearly a year at that point). People were calling it the “killer app” for Firefox, and the company is backed by early investors in Skype, Mangrove Capital Partners and Index Ventures. And since AllPeers is a Firefox extension, it works across all platforms.
But some of the hype was lost as AllPeers found itself among a flock of competitors - we compared four of them here. We named it the best, but noted that all parties to the transfer had to have AllPeers installed, something some of the others didn’t require.
Today they released a new version of AllPeers. There are a number of minor tweaks, including the way they handle file organization. But the exciting update is that they added a pop up chat feature. This would be extremely popular as a stand alone plugin, and adding it to AllPeers is a no brainer. You can now chat with friends as you send files, or just chat with friends without sending files.
I’m still disappointed that AllPeers and Flock haven’t gotten around to porting this to the Flock browser yet. Flock needs a P2P file sharing feature, and AllPeers is all ready to go.
More details about the release on the AllPeers blog, and check out the video below.
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Oh, really, hype is over, move along
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Michal - This is a plugin though, not a website. Once you have it, there’s no reason to go back to the website other than for updates.
I have never quite understood the point of adding this stuff to Firefox. Its not that I think that it SHOULDN’t be added. I just don’t see the benefit. Why not a stand alone version? Why chat inside Firefox and not just in MSN or AllPeers Chat?
Thing is this is an extension which is so massive that it seems to break other extensions quite regularily. back in the days it for example didn’t work with an activated noscript. noscript being one of the top5 extensions on the mozillasite I may add.
Now it seems to break diigo. everytime I want to diigo something firefox crashes since I reinstalled allpeers.
It’s a shame.
Well FWIW I installed Diigo and it seems to work fine with AllPeers on my machine. One of the main goals of our beta phase is to find and fix any conflicts with other extensions (as we did with NoScript). There are simply too many extensions out there for us to test all combos ourselves.
If you’d like to help us look into this, please post a message on our forums (http://www.allpeers.com/community/) and I’ll make sure that someone follows up.
I agree with Boris. What’s the urge to have it all in just ONE PLACE. Specially a browser… I don’t have my Flock open all the time. In fact, because of all the memory leaks I try to keep it closed and open it just when I use it. AllPeers just makes it harder.
My perfect FileSharing app:
I choose who to share with, I upload it (via any protocol) to a web server, ppl download it from there:
1. It doesn’t require everyone to have the program, because you could download via a browser.
2. It doesn’t require my computer to stay on all day.
Kinda like yousendit, but multi-file and connected to some IM (or even MySpace) so I don’t have to rely on emailing a notification to ppl. You could even add RSS to see the files recently shared with me.
It’s really a cool plugin. However, as there are so many services that I could share my files with others, I’m really expecting streaming audio and video could get shared in a P2P way like this Firefox plugin.
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I had been expecting the chat feature on AllPeers for a very long time! In 2005 (yes…) I was one of the happy few who had the chance to try the very first implementation of AllPeers — a standalone application at the time. Two of the killer features it had at the time were this chat functionality, as well as the ability to leave comments on items you shared with friends, very much like Flickr.
I was actually kind of frustrated with the previous versions of AllPeers on Firefox, but now that the chat plugin is here I can finally see how this app is going to be so much better than Myspace in the long run! They got it just right: drag ‘n drop to the contact list is very intuitive and now everybody can finally grasp how sharing and communicating blend together
P2P sharing that works inside the browser is very good. But the idea that it works only when the receiving party has installed the software is not good.
In a recent blog post http://pullur.wordpress.com/20.....-web-apps/ I had posted (some of which AllPeers addresses):
I wish …
I can have data reside on my desktop (secure, private and in my control) and still have the ability to selectively share it with my buddies or the whole world without making multiple copies of it.
I can keep my contacts and my buddies list and can use it for sharing a variety of things.
I can have an option to use online storage, either with the app provider or Amazon S3 or some other paid online storage that I already have.
I can have seamless user experience across desktop and web, including transitions between online and offline.
I notice that some Firefox plugins slow things down. I had to kill a weather plugin that was highly rated as it just killed allot. How does this one work in reference to that?
Rex
P2P still isn’t that big of an attraction for me - mainly because of the dirth of legal content. When the major media labels finally begin using P2P to distribute media, then I will begin to pay more attention to it. In the meantime, AllPeers and other P2P companies will have to find some other way of garnering my interest - if they want it.
i also hope they release a flock version, please mike, ask them.
You should checkout http://www.leafnetworks.net . Pretty impressive idea. you can have your own virtual private network with friends. so this makes it possible to share files, photos, videos, play xbox or play any computer games as if your friends are all in the same network. It is much more than just p2p file sharing. And they can penetrate most firewalls.
Vijay - you can checkout leafnetworks.net . It should solve your problem.
This race has been over for a while Michael. Pando quietly announced passing 2 million installs and growing like gangbusters. They at least got the user experience right, but none of these companies has a business model. They all better stop focusing on file transfer and start thinking heavy-media monetization before its too late.
P2p is great technology, only the spam is the metter…keep it off and it ll be the best and more popoular technology of the century..or decade!
yeah.. p2p was a very good technology.. help us a lot in finding software..
i belive sometimes with p2p software, our computer is more vulnerable.. virus,spyware and lot of annoying things will easily infect our pc..
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