I’ve just received an email invite to try the beta version of the new Firefox extension, AllPeers. For anyone that doesn’t know, AllPeers uses P2P (bittorent) technology that allows you to share movies, pictures, documents, music etc with anyone in your buddy network and likewise they can do the same with you.
What’s more, even if your friend(s) is offline, you can still access the files they’ve allowed you see. Being a bittorent client means you can instantly share large files without the hassle of waiting for them to download. It’s been reported that they’re introducing a chat and voip function in the near future too. Sounds good.
After receiving the invite I tried to sign up pretty much straight away but the registration page said this: “AllPeers is all about sharing, so it isn’t much fun using it by yourself. To get activation keys for some of your friends, please provide their email address below. These email addresses will be used only to generate the appropriate activation keys. We will never send unsollicited mail to any of these addresses or provide them to any other company.”
Makes sense, so if you want to test it out, use the contact form below or leave a comment in the usual place. Ideally, I need three people to share with and preferably I’d like to be familiar with the people/bloggers I’m testing it with.
Maybe organisations that have a network of bloggers could find this extension handy to quickly relay files and information to one another? Or you work for a company that has offices in different locations? Or you’re working with a client based in a different location to yourself. Or you’re working on a group research project? Any other ideas?
TechCrunch has a pretty good review on it or you can check out the AllPeers website.
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