p2pnet - rss feed: Firefox with AllPeers
p2pnet.net news:- Quite a while back p2pnet did a post on then-new AllPeers whose p2p application uses the BitTorrent protocol to transfer files between users, eliminating the need for a central server, and enabling users to share files and web pages with friends and family in the same way they’d browse normal web pages. And everything would be, “private and secure,” the company promised.
Ceo Cedric Maloux (far right, with co-founder Matthew Gertner) told us Allpeers, then a Firefox add-on, would eventually be offered online open-source, and that the company would also release its own distinct end-user application built on the AllPeers platform.
“The service is and will remain free for sharing files in a private group,” he also promised first time around. “Later, added-value services will be introduced. It’s like Skype: the VOIP service is free but SkypeOut, SkypeIn are not.”
Did that mean users can expect ads soon to be blotting the landscape? - we wondered? Definitely not, Maloux assured p2pnet, “there will be no advertising (banners or contextual text links or whatever) in the software.”
Firefox with AllPeers is now online and since the first public beta last September, “we’ve smoothed out the rough edges” says Maloux.
Firefox with AllPeers follows a deal struck with Mozilla to distribute Firefox bundled with AllPeers. “This means people who don’t yet have Firefox only have to install one product (Firefox with AllPeers) to download your files,” Maloux points out
“AllPeers has been downloaded more than 350,000 times. We sign up a new member every 2 minutes. Our community of enthusiastic users has translated the software in 15 languages (and counting) and today we are announcing AllPeers v0.60, our biggest release since we went public, and this new version has new features.”
Share by email
Users drop files and folders into AllPeers, enter the email address of the recipient(s) and they get an HTML email showing thumbnails of what’s being shared, with a link to the AllPeers site so they can install AllPeers and download files.
Import contacts
Contacts are created from existing address books in Outlook, Thunderbird, GMail, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail.
Free Always-On
The ‘Always On’ feature caches files being shared with email contacts on a server so users don’t need to be online for them to be available. “Of course, the files are encrypted before they are uploaded, just like they’re encrypted when you are sharing directly from your computer,” says Maloux.
Click here for a download. AllPeers is also running a Peer Pressure blog, as well as a developer site with information on how to extend AllPeers basic features.
Also See:
did a post - Allpeers Firefox p2p wins funding, March 7, 2006
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