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Is AllPeers FireFox's P2P "Killer App"?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the simple-is-key dept.

Vivek Jishtu writes "Tech Crunch predicts that the AllPeers Firefox extension will massively increase the attractiveness of that already popular browser, drawing more millions away from embattled Internet Explorer. AllPeers is a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser. Initially, interaction with those buddies will be limited to discovering and sharing files."

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  1. Re:Quantumware by underpar · · Score: 4, Funny

    In the future, AllPeers will also have folders to allow public sharing (probably with restrictions to control copyright violations). I also assume they will build chat and VOIP functionality into the application as well.

    You deride the power of the probable assumption?

  2. What next? by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Funny

    And in other news, the Open Office suite has been released as a Firefox Plugin. Analysts predict that not only will this draw users away from from IE, but millions will also switch away from Office.

    An interesting quote from the article, "What we're really waiting for is someone to release a linux distribution as a Firefox plugin. This will spell certain death to both IE and Windows simultaneously. The big hurdle is to figure out how to launch Firefox before the OS has even booted."

    Dan East

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    Better known as 318230.
  3. Re:Quantumware by revery · · Score: 5, Funny

    We won't know until we open the box! Wow, that was interesting...

    Hey, it's Schrodinger's App

  4. Re:Paranoid by Ingolfke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for the comment template. I'll use this template anytime any new feature of any product is released. It'll save me so much time having to actually think up a specific meaningful response.

  5. Re:Paranoid by ehaggis · · Score: 5, Funny

    This looks like a great comment, but it also looks like it could be a consistant comment waiting to happen. These are the comment templates that have plagued comment template security. Let's hope we don't trade comments for comment templates.

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    One ring to bind them - should probably have more fiber and less rings in their diet.
  6. Antisocial Commentary by ryanvm · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is with all this social networking crap? Egads. The only technological phenomenon more annoying than blogorrhea (and Mac fans) is this recent notion that everything I do online should be intimately shareable with everyone I know. Hello? If I wanted social interaction, I'd go hang out with people instead of huddling in a dimly lit corner of my basement staring bleary-eyed at the cold, pale glow of my CRT.

    Come on people. Am I the only one who still does shit alone on the Internet?
    </troll>

    And yes, I too appreciate the irony of spurting antisocial rants on a community web site.