Cites lackluster user base numbers.For the unfamiliar, AllPeers was an the extension for Mozilla's Firefox that allowed users to create personal file-sharing networks with others powered with the speed and reliability of BitTorrent. Unfortunately t he extension apparently failed to gain enough popularity to satisfy the hopes of investors and thus forced the company to close it down.
P2P has always been tough to monetize and this development highlights this fact. File-sharers are obviously accustomed to free content, and so unless developers offer something entirely revolutionary people aren't very likely to part with their hard-earned cash - especially these days. |
 
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Good bye AllPeers, What a sad day
Unfortunately, they were never impressed with my little review of the thing - though the extra publicity shouldn't have been all that bad. If there is anyone looking to hire online web advertisers, I'd definitely recommend the people behind this app as they definitely did a top notch job at flooding the net with this extension. Even got some publicity from TorrentFreak. Their podcaster commented how both of us should STFU. What a hoot! :)
Note to self: Cars no longer an immediate threat to personal safety. ;)
It looks great to use... i think there are much more people like me that never heard of it but would love to use it :S
What my friends and me need is an easy way to share files one-on-one with simple tools that are already on the computer, like a browser, and anyone can be the server, and anyone can receive.
Sure you can send an mp3 through e-mail, but video files are too big. IM would be okay, but most of the time it fails, maybe because of router, port, firewall issues. Bit Torrent has worked, but it can be hard to create a torrent with it. Grandma has to be able to do this, and she doesn't have the time to play around with technical issues, so it should be as easy as clicking on a link in e-mail that opens up the browser.
Creation would be easy too, something like a right click on the file you want to send, selecting Send-It or something, and a web link is created right next to the file, that can then be attached to a letter to the recipient. When the recipient clicks, they'd get the usual 'Where would you like to save this file?' message from the browser. Oh, and it would be good to do away with the central server, so you will always be able to use the program.
:)
This is exaclty what AllPeers was able to do.
It's just sad.