Comments on: In the Beginning http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/19/in-the-beginning/ The official AllPeers blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Matt http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/19/in-the-beginning/#comment-5806 Matt Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:01:12 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/19/in-the-beginning/#comment-5806 Ingo, Heh, didn't know you were watching. :-) Seriously, thanks for the suggestion, it's a good one. Certainly we are thinking a lot about "tease" people into trying out AllPeers. If you're talking about getting support for our protocol into the Firefox distribution, this is exceedingly hard to do. These guys are pretty much rock stars at this point, so they're getting sollicited from all sides. There is tons of stuff in AllPeers that I believe could be in the Mozilla kernel, but we won't have the stature to lobby for that until we've proven our technology independently. Hopefully by Firefox 2.0 we'll be in a position to make this happen, not just to help us become stinking rich, but also because, IMHO, we actually have some pretty darn good ideas. With respect to driving "viral adoption" in general, we've had a lot of ideas that are applicable in the short term: 1) Our P2P protocol is going to be BitTorrent. 2) Our resources are accessible using the standard Mozilla RDF interfaces (even remotely). 3) We're planning to let AllPeers function as an HTTP server, so you can publish your AllPeers "stuff" as HTML pages for those poor souls who don't yet have AllPeers. 4) ... I dare say my next few posts will clarify some of these ideas, but this should give you a taste of the lines we're thinking along. Ingo,

Heh, didn’t know you were watching. :-) Seriously, thanks for the suggestion, it’s a good one. Certainly we are thinking a lot about “tease” people into trying out AllPeers. If you’re talking about getting support for our protocol into the Firefox distribution, this is exceedingly hard to do. These guys are pretty much rock stars at this point, so they’re getting sollicited from all sides. There is tons of stuff in AllPeers that I believe could be in the Mozilla kernel, but we won’t have the stature to lobby for that until we’ve proven our technology independently. Hopefully by Firefox 2.0 we’ll be in a position to make this happen, not just to help us become stinking rich, but also because, IMHO, we actually have some pretty darn good ideas.

With respect to driving “viral adoption” in general, we’ve had a lot of ideas that are applicable in the short term:
1) Our P2P protocol is going to be BitTorrent.
2) Our resources are accessible using the standard Mozilla RDF interfaces (even remotely).
3) We’re planning to let AllPeers function as an HTTP server, so you can publish your AllPeers “stuff” as HTML pages for those poor souls who don’t yet have AllPeers.
4) …

I dare say my next few posts will clarify some of these ideas, but this should give you a taste of the lines we’re thinking along.

]]> By: Ingo http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/19/in-the-beginning/#comment-5805 Ingo Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:06:03 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/09/19/in-the-beginning/#comment-5805 Nice approach. Always thought that peer-to-peer support belonged into browsers. One thing I'd like to suggest: Try to get some basic, uncontroversial, and small level of protocol support into Firefox itself, so that your software is an add-on. Provide a teaser, so to speak. Nice approach. Always thought that peer-to-peer support belonged into browsers. One thing I’d like to suggest: Try to get some basic, uncontroversial, and small level of protocol support into Firefox itself, so that your software is an add-on. Provide a teaser, so to speak.

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