AllPeers v0.60 and Firefox Bundle

AllPeers v0.60 is here, and it’s our biggest release since our first public beta last September. Our main focus with this version has been to make it easier to grow your AllPeers network. It’s a pain to have to contact people by phone or instant messaging and beg them to install AllPeers because it’s So Darn Cool. Well, now there’s a better way thanks to our Share by Email feature.

In a nutshell, this let’s you enter a friend’s email address in the Share form instead of their AllPeers ID. If they aren’t a user, they receive an email with big colorful thumbnails of your files that just scream “Download me!” We’ve also included a feature to import your contacts from a few of the most popular email programs (Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo) so you don’t have to enter them by hand. And we’ve got a first cut of our upcoming Always On service, which lets you upload files (in encrypted form) to a server so that they are available for download even if you’re not online. Right now Always On only works when you share by email, but we’ve got big plans for this service in the future so (why do I keep saying this?) stay tuned.

Something to please existing users: you can now share file hierarchies, so no more problems if you want to share a directory that contains subdirectories. The 300 file limit is still there, since it’s a bit trickier to deal with. We’re working on that too.

And, as Steve Jobs would say: One More Thing. We’re thrilled to have a new bundle called “Firefox with AllPeers” that we put together in collaboration with Mozilla Corp. So when you share by email with unenlightened folks who don’t even have Firefox yet (the humanity!) they can get it together with AllPeers in a single convenient download. Already about 10% of our users are new to Firefox, and we hope that the bundle will help to increase this percentage significantly.

For a fully immersive, singing/dancing multimedia perspective on the new version, here’s out latest video tour:

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8 Comments »

1. Given the 300 file limit, the sub-folders addition is somewhat limited. I just don’t see using this until this is fixed. Any timeline on this issue. It seems to me this is the single largest barrier to widespread adoption, yet this remains unfixed while all kinds of other bells and whistles are added. Seems like the 300 file limit is something that would be getting the highest priority!

   Comment by Dan — 6/6/2007 @ 3:40 pm

2. Well you have to remember that everyone has their own “must have” feature. I use AllPeers every day and I never run into the 300 file limit. I am much more keen to have e.g. comments on shared items.

   Nonetheless, I do see where you’re coming from. Sharing large numbers of files requires a substantially different approach to the one we use for smaller numbers, which is why we haven’t rolled it out yet. But we do have a strategy for this, and we’ll let people know as soon as we have a concrete timetable.

   Comment by Matt — 6/6/2007 @ 5:20 pm

3. Perhaps you could have someone else do the voice-over instead in the video introduction to Allpeears.

   Comment by Justa Hint — 6/7/2007 @ 4:45 am

4. And why not a multilingual tour ?

   Comment by Zaatar — 6/7/2007 @ 11:20 am

5. Well if people want to send us MP3s with their audio we can certainly consider releasing versions in other languages. We’re also working on getting a better recording setup here so hopefully my voice will sound better in future versions.

   Comment by Matt — 6/7/2007 @ 11:31 am

6. And if by any chance you had a written transcript of what you say in English, we could use it as a support for live and audio translation !

   Comment by Zaatar — 6/12/2007 @ 11:16 am

7. merçi

   Comment by horta — 6/13/2007 @ 10:46 pm

8. I have to agree with Dan that the 300 file limit is a deal killer for me. I have a bunch of documents, home videos, and misc files that I’d like to share with friends, but being limited to just 300 makes this too frustrating to use. Looking forward to the day when we can share a lot more, then I’ll install in a jiffy.

   Comment by Jed — 6/15/2007 @ 6:23 pm

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