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A lack of peers leads AllPeers to close up shop
P2P startup AllPeers announced today that it would be closing its doors due to insufficient growth. “We are tremendously proud of the product that our team has built, and we remain convinced of the potential of adding social features like file-sharing to the web browser,” the company wrote on its blog today. “However, 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.”

I had high hopes for this when it started but fell out of love pretty soon after it launched. Oh well “Allpeers! We barely knew thee !!”

A new service has launched named Allpears. It is a firefox extension that allows “buddies” chat and share files securely and easily.

I have been waiting for the public release of this for quite some time. I Think I heard about i last year sometime, and they have finally released a public beta. Still downloading my copy, but test it out and provide a review later on.

Update:
Google apparently beat them to the punch. There’s a new GTalk as of the 8/16. File Sharing is a central feature of this new version.