The AllPeers File Sharing Service Closes Up Shop
AllPeers, the much loved, but apparently under-used, file sharing extension for Firefox has announced it will be shutting down today. The AllPeers Firefox extension allowed you to create a private file sharing network through your browser to download files from friends and colleagues.
AllPeers was a Compiler favorite and we considered it a must have for Firefox aficionados, but it would seem that the service wasn’t able to draw in a wider audience.
The AllPeers blog reports that the company has not “achieved the kind of growth in our user base that our investors were expecting, and as a result we are not able to continue operating the service.” In other words they ran out of cash and didn’t have the user numbers to get another round of funding.
AllPeers was already open source and the code will remain available on a as-yet-undetermined host such as SourceForge or Google Code. The AllPeers team also hints that they may open source the server-side code as well, which means perhaps another interested party can pick up where AllPeers left off.
To end on a slightly more upbeat note, it would seem that the AllPeers blog, PeerPressure, will continue to exist, with AllPeers co-founders Matthew Gertner and Cedric Maloux still weighing in on all things p2p, file sharing and browser related (like why you’d want IE on your iPhone).
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