Comments on: Beta Blockers http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/ The official AllPeers blog Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:51:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Matt http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7870 Matt Fri, 28 Apr 2006 11:45:33 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7870 You ask a couple of good questions, Michael. We're revealing details of what we're doing because we want people to understand the scope of our project (at least people interested enough to be reading this blog). Of course, it will take a while for this to come together but hopefully we'll be releasing new pieces frequently enough to hold people's interest. I'm certainly not afraid of someone stealing our ideas. There's no way anyone could duplicate what we're doing without already sharing our vision at a very deep level. Regarding Firefox: first of all, we're tied mainly to the Mozilla platform, not Firefox itself, which means we can run pretty easily on other Mozilla-based products like Flock and Songbird. Also, we can make a standalone version using XulRunner. I feel like Mozilla is a great runtime for us to be using whatever direction we head in the future. Ideally, people will want AllPeers badly enough to download Firefox or the future standalone version of our product, as Tomas suggests. If we sense at some point that this requirement is a brake to adoption, we might consider integration into other popular browsers, but for now I'm sure the Firefox community gives us <em>plenty</em> of scope to grow. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. You ask a couple of good questions, Michael. We’re revealing details of what we’re doing because we want people to understand the scope of our project (at least people interested enough to be reading this blog). Of course, it will take a while for this to come together but hopefully we’ll be releasing new pieces frequently enough to hold people’s interest. I’m certainly not afraid of someone stealing our ideas. There’s no way anyone could duplicate what we’re doing without already sharing our vision at a very deep level.

Regarding Firefox: first of all, we’re tied mainly to the Mozilla platform, not Firefox itself, which means we can run pretty easily on other Mozilla-based products like Flock and Songbird. Also, we can make a standalone version using XulRunner. I feel like Mozilla is a great runtime for us to be using whatever direction we head in the future. Ideally, people will want AllPeers badly enough to download Firefox or the future standalone version of our product, as Tomas suggests. If we sense at some point that this requirement is a brake to adoption, we might consider integration into other popular browsers, but for now I’m sure the Firefox community gives us plenty of scope to grow. We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.

]]> By: funTomas http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7864 funTomas Fri, 28 Apr 2006 07:02:45 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7864 @Michael: I don't think so. If the AP is as good as it promises to be, it'll help to drive more users to use FF. An IE user who havn't switched to FF is the kind of user not interested in AP. @Michael: I don’t think so. If the AP is as good as it promises to be, it’ll help to drive more users to use FF. An IE user who havn’t switched to FF is the kind of user not interested in AP.

]]> By: Elessar http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7862 Elessar Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:14:41 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7862 Sounds good :) With any new program major bugs usually play early beta's, seems like you guys have done a great job. I cant wait to use this! Sounds good :) With any new program major bugs usually play early beta’s, seems like you guys have done a great job. I cant wait to use this!

]]> By: Michael http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7859 Michael Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:50:12 +0000 http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2006/04/27/beta-blockers/#comment-7859 I really like all the ideas in Cedric's post, and I'm glad to have the update on the beta. I especially like that you're viewing this as a platform to spring off other services, but why reveal so many of your secrets so soon?! I can't wait for all this to come together. You talk about scalability being essential to this technology and Mark talked about US-centric business having too small a market; do you worry that being tied to Firefox might be a huge market limitation? I understand the programming benefits and the cross-platform distribution possibilities and the security, etc., but it seems to be against a major part of your ethos. An old question, I know...it just seems contradictory. I really like all the ideas in Cedric’s post, and I’m glad to have the update on the beta. I especially like that you’re viewing this as a platform to spring off other services, but why reveal so many of your secrets so soon?! I can’t wait for all this to come together.

You talk about scalability being essential to this technology and Mark talked about US-centric business having too small a market; do you worry that being tied to Firefox might be a huge market limitation? I understand the programming benefits and the cross-platform distribution possibilities and the security, etc., but it seems to be against a major part of your ethos. An old question, I know…it just seems contradictory.

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