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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The following, written by guest writer Matthew Gertner, is a follow up to his post “Bridging Desktop And Web Applications - A Look At Mozilla Prism” on March 22, 2008. Matthew was a co-founder and CTO of startup AllPeers before it shut down earlier this year. He’s now working with Mozilla on their Prism project, which [...]
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mozilla links (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
Matthew Gertner, former CTO of now defunct AllPeers, an excellent Firefox extension I miserably failed to properly review several times has an excellent writeup on TechCrunch, on Prism, Mozilla’s proposition for desktop enabled web apps and similar products from Adobe and Microsoft. You may want to give it a look. ---Related Articles at Mozilla Links:Prism for [...]
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vipeers (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
As a follow-up to their demise, the AllPeers guys are debriefing on the Peer Pressure blog and offering their experienced views to other start-uppers. Obviously I am paying a lot of attention to their post-mortem, especially since our project Podmailing...
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FoundRead (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
We posted yesterday on the failure of AllPeers. This is an evergreen topic on founders’ sites like ours, failure being an experience all of us will have at one point or another. But failure—like success!—is ‘what you make of it.’ As we learned yesterday, it needn't be all bad. I’ve had this on my mind [...]
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Peer Pressure (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Although AllPeers didn't produce the kind of outcome that we had hoped for and expected, it's been a tremendous learning experience. Hopefully others will be able to benefit from what I consider to be the main lessons. Luck and ambition Naturally the success of any startup is dependent to some degree on luck, and the luck factor [...]
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FoundRead (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
You may heave heard by now that the P2P startup AllPeers shut down yesterday, which cofounders Matthew Gertner and Cedric Maloux announced in this empassioned blog post. The reasons why AllPeers went bust are all too familiar — the interests/expectations of the founders apparently weren't aligned with those of the investors. This was confirmed in a [...]
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Peer Pressure (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Since the announcement of the closing of AllPeers we have been submerged by emails, IMs, SMS and phone calls from total strangers and friends in the industry. Before making the announcement, Matt and I were wondering yesterday if anyone would really pay attention. After all we had not been in the news for some time [...]
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p2pnet (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
p2pnet news | Freedom:- "You haven't heard the last from us. See you in our next life!" That's what Allpeers promises in its announcement that it's shutting down. "When Allpeers went official, it said it was billed as the best thing to happen to Firefox since Firefox," p2pnet posted in 2006, going oin: "It, ‘combines the strength of [...]
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Crenk.com (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
UK/Prague based peer to peer file sharing startup AllPeers announced that it is shutting down today: “We have 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.” AllPeers allowed any user to create a private BitTorrent file [...]
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P2P Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Allpeers announced on Monday that it is going to shut down , and my colleagues over at Gigaom are reporting that the start-up just d idn't show enough growth to be able to secure another round of funding. So where can Allpeers users go next? Here are five suggestions, based on different usage scenarios: If you want to swap torrents with your friends: Podmailing. Podmailing is a service that combines...
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John's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
It's been a busy day, so I’m a little late to get to this, but I’m sad to note that AllPeers is shutting down. I’m bummed, of course, not just because a Mozilla-related startup is calling it quits, but also because it's become easy in such a prolific startup era to be jaded about startups [...]
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Zeropaid File Sharing P2P Technolog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Cites lackluster user base numbers. In a post on the official AllPeers blog, Matthew Gertner, the company's CTO, informs readers that it has decided to shut down operations after failing to garner a sufficient number of users to please investors. 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...
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Loïc Le Meur (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
My friend Cedric Maloux (did not know the other founders / team members) shut the doors of AllPeers today. This is sad. I always think about failure as a possibility in anything I do. I guess the best is to...
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VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Here’s the latest action: 1) Wikileaks judge restores restores site, slaps self on wrist 2) AllPeers’ peer-to-peer scheme fails to capture users 3) Chevron, Weyerhaeuser join up for cellulosic ethanol 4) Saudi Arabia and IBM partner to develop green nanotech 5) Akamai wins patent fight, but not happy with ruling 6) Woz points out flaws in Apple’s latest products 7) Global warming, [...]
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
AllPeers, which created a P2P Firefox extension based around BitTorrent, has decided to close its doors after a couple of years of insufficient growth. No income, stiff competition, and a stagnant user base don't usually make investors happy. Read More...
