AllPeers Adds Social BitTorrent to Firefox(R).Drag-and-Drop Sharing and Faster Downloads Appeal to Experts and Non-Technical Users Alike PRAGUE, Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. & OXFORD, England -- AllPeers today announced that it has added new capabilities to its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. to support standard BitTorrent downloads directly inside the Firefox web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . With this new release, AllPeers becomes a Social BitTorrent client This article is about BitTorrent clients in general. For the client created by Bram Cohen, see BitTorrent (client). A BitTorrent client is a program that downloads files using the BitTorrent protocol. , making it far simpler to share and recommend torrents to friends. Designed to make downloading easier and faster, AllPeers does not require any previous knowledge of dealing with torrent files. Until now, use of the BitTorrent protocol has required searching on obscure websites. Downloading files meant choosing one of a number of complex client applications intended specifically for this purpose. AllPeers makes downloading torrent files as easy as normal web downloads: just click on a link and the download starts, right inside your browser. The social features let users share torrent files using the encrypted AllPeers network, directly with their existing AllPeers contacts or by sending files to any email address See Internet address. . "More and more companies are making their content available online using BitTorrent, which is becoming the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for distribution of large files on the internet," says Carla Thompson, analyst at GuideWire Group. "But until now the very use of this technology limited the size of their potential audience. The combination of Firefox, AllPeers and BitTorrent means that content producers will be able to reach new non-technical audiences. This has the potential to be a major milestone in the rapid adoption of this young and promising technology for the distribution of high-quality content." BitTorrent already accounts for over 40 percent of all Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. and boasts over 35 million users. AllPeers adds about one new user every two minutes. By combining these two communities, both public and private sharing of content is possible with the same easy-to-use interface. "Our new BitTorrent functionality meshes perfectly with our existing social features," explains Matthew Gertner, Chief Technology Officer of AllPeers. "It's easier to find interesting content, since your friends probably know your tastes pretty well. And you can also download a torrent file up to twice as fast using AllPeers if a friend shares it with you, since you get it from your friend and the torrent simultaneously." With this new release, AllPeers furthers its mission to simplify new technologies for the average consumer while adding compelling new features for existing users. About AllPeers AllPeers is a free, open source Firefox extension that enables users to share files and folders with friends and family, privately and securely without the restrictions associated with alternative methods. AllPeers runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux and is currently available in 15 languages. The company has offices in the United Kingdom and Czech Republic, with financing from venture capital funds Venture Capital Funds An investment fund that manages money from investors seeking private equity stakes in small and medium-size enterprises with strong growth potential. Notes: Mangrove mangrove, large tropical evergreen tree, genus Rhizophora, that grows on muddy tidal flats and along protected ocean shorelines. Mangroves are most abundant in tropical Asia, Africa, and the islands of the SW Pacific. Capital Partners and Index Ventures. AllPeers was recently chosen as one of the CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Webware 100 Best WebApplications. It was also named the best new Firefox add-on by ComputerWorld, one of the top ten extensions by Wired News and the best file-sharing freeware by PC World. For more information about AllPeers, visit the company website at www.allpeers.com or "Peer Pressure", the AllPeers blog, at www.allpeers.com/blog. |
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