Hooray for Hollywood

Wednesday May 03rd 2006, 4:46 pm Printer Friendly Version
Filed under:AllPeers
Posted By: Matt

I’ll be giving a 6-minute demo of AllPeers at the OnHollywood conference tomorrow. You can follow the gripping drama by watching the live webcast. The session is scheduled to start at 9:30am California time.

Update: Check out the webcast archive if you missed the live presentation. I’m really happy with the way it went… the demo went off flawlessly which is rare in our business. Unfortunately the panel totally failed to get it, but I trust that most viewers will understand that this is much bigger than what the pundits apparently perceived.


21 Comments »

  1. Did your talk get archive and have link to view?

    Comment by Mr.Utah — 5/3/2006 @ 11:33 pm

  2. I don’t know whether they’re going to archive it, but it’s not til tomorrow so you still have a chance to see it live.

    Comment by Matt — 5/3/2006 @ 11:36 pm

  3. You looked good. I thought your presentation was very strong. Those commentators afterwards were harsh, though. They really didn’t seem to get it. I guess that shows that you still have to dumb down the presentation more, even for the supposed experts. Maybe that one woman was right. Don’t spend as much time explaining why the other file-sharing platforms suck. Spend more on what’s different about AllPeers. The last guy said you should make it a Firefox plug-in, not a separate platform. Hello? Was he listening?

    Comment by Ben — 5/4/2006 @ 7:27 pm

  4. At least I’ve seen the product! Now send my key over so I can play with it too :-)

    Cool demo and stupid comments after!

    Comment by Hunter — 5/4/2006 @ 8:12 pm

  5. Yeah, the comments were a bit “ouch!” but I was very pleased about the way the demo went. Our vision of adding revolutionary new capabilities to the web browser is far too big to get across in six minutes, and we have to plug our private file sharing capabilities since obviously a lot of people are excited about that (including me, I love using it!). Thanks for the comments, it’s nice to know that there are plenty of people who do get what we’re doing.

    Comment by Matt — 5/4/2006 @ 8:41 pm

  6. Liked quite a lot the presentation, but the time was obviously too small to reach the interesting point. Friend to friend networks will rock… ;-)

    Comment by Mattia Belletti — 5/5/2006 @ 2:20 pm

  7. Just watched your presentation and first thing that hits me was your overuse of sound “emmmm”, It’s very distracting and makes harder to notice what you actually try to underline in your presentation. Presentation itself was short and chaotic. You shown basic feature of shearing files between people but this is not Impressive. I whuld not do such thing in browser (and Firefox has much problems with memory usage that makes it not realy handy to run at all times in background). For scenario you presented I’d use some small http server like (my favorite) HFS http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/

    Biggest thing, there is no problem with sharing files. people have many ways to share files (yes people do use email it still is easy way to do it). The problem is in speed of upload! most people have upload spead from 128 KBps to 256 KBps (not to mention poor 56K modem bastards). You failed to show any features that whuld help out with sharing bigger files, like does this thing will make swarm, similar to torrents, for every file shared in group, so group will help each other to get file? that whould be something new and usefull.
    I fallowed the hype that has been created but if there is nothing much that was shown on this presentation I’m not sure if there is realy a need for this type of program. I realy hope, it was just short presentation and there is more in ALLPeers.

    Comment by GG — 5/5/2006 @ 7:16 pm

  8. Rough comments, GG. To defend AP, I think one of their main goals is to make this easy to use (as Matt said in the presentation) so that anyone can share files in a very intuitive way. While you might have no problem with a small http server, someone less tech-savvy might shy away from that and not share the files at all. Wrapping this technology into a web browser - something almost any computer user is familiar with - accomplishes this.

    Every e-mail server I’ve ever used has file size limitations. Even GMail won’t let you attach more than 10mb. AP claims to use bittorrent, so there won’t be a problem with large files, and this will help ease the upload bandwidth problem if there are multiple seeders for a file.

    The thing that I look forward to most about this program is that it will be widely used (I hope) because of its simplicity. If everyone you know is sharing files on AllPeers, there will be a ton of cool resources available to all of us.

    One use I foresee that I haven’t seen discussed is that you could have two AP accounts and share everything on your computer with only that other account, so you could have secure remote access to all of your files anywhere in the world. So here’s hoping Matt &co. do a great job with encryption and security :)

    Comment by Michael — 5/5/2006 @ 9:58 pm

  9. Problem is, I realy don’t see people with avarage computer knowlage. I see only 12 o’clock flashers (people who bearly run browser and have installed every single IE toolbar existing), or people who have good grasp on computer technology. ALLPeers look quite easy but It also opens whole new area for those entry point computer users. those people may start shearing their hard disks and open them to people with evil reasons to access them. Not all people in our families are good and it’s not always easy to tell who you can trust.

    Ofcourse I cannot realy talk about how it whuld work in real life situations becouse I’m yet to try ALLPeers when I will get my beta key.

    Comment by GG — 5/5/2006 @ 10:18 pm

  10. So I’m guessing Allpeers is not even going to use swarms to download stuff faster? I mean if your gonna use the bittorrent protolcol at least take advantage of it.

    @Micheal: I don’t think I would be good sending files then. Because bittorrent is made to have seeds to download the file to send the file faster. If anything this program is gonna just happen to be dead with out able to find more then one seed to download the file. Anyways can anyone tell me if youll be able to download the same file from more then 1 person on your buddy list?

    Comment by Progz — 5/6/2006 @ 12:18 am

  11. Obviously six minutes was only enough to give a very brief explanation of the premise behind AllPeers and show the basic features. Yes, our BitTorrent implementation supports swarming downloads. We also have tons of plans for additional features. That said, what I showed is already a vast improvement over existing methods of sharing files (and setting up an HTTP server is certainly no exception to that).

    Comment by Matt — 5/6/2006 @ 6:26 am

  12. Then I’ll be back to waiting for my key anxiously.

    Comment by GG — 5/6/2006 @ 10:51 am

  13. Some tips for your next presentation:
    -do not run around like a cat in a cage
    -concentrate on your product and not on the disadvantages of other methods
    -speak more slowly an emphasize important topics
    -do not talk too much about your visions
    The easier the people can follow and understand what you are saying, the better.
    It is like allpeers: “keep it simple!”

    Comment by Anonymous — 5/6/2006 @ 7:59 pm

  14. Thanks for the heads up Matt. I been wanting to know that answer for awhile now.

    Comment by Progz — 5/6/2006 @ 8:11 pm

  15. You mentioned during the demo it was web server embedded in FF, so all those files sharing are through http not BT anymore? I thought you guys were using BT technology. Maybe I missed something here.

    Comment by Brian — 5/7/2006 @ 6:16 am

  16. mayby it was just simple comparision that morons in audience whuld understand?

    Comment by GG — 5/7/2006 @ 9:33 am

  17. That’s what BT is… software that lets your client (consuming data) act as a server (providing data to others) as well.

    Comment by Matt — 5/8/2006 @ 6:15 am

  18. We support both HTTP and BT and we have an open architecture so it is easy for us to add new protocols. Both BT and HTTP have advantage depending on the specific scenario (e.g. how many people have the file).

    Comment by Matt — 5/8/2006 @ 5:21 pm

  19. I am wondering whether people will be able to download a file that I shared while I am not online. Without me running that tracker, how would they know who else has the file? Making that information public would totally destroy the whole idea about private p2p-sharing… And what if I download the file and publish it to others that were originally not intended to get it? Taking about web 2.0, can I control my own data? Thanks for your thoughts on this one!

    Comment by Bjoern — 5/9/2006 @ 9:50 am

  20. Yes, Bjoern, people will be able to download content when you’re not online. We will offer various facilities for you to migrate content to “always on” servers (this is very cool but I can’t say more about it just yet). The BT trackers won’t run on your machine for actually the reason you describe, but the list of peers sharing a file will only be available to authorized users (i.e. those with whom the file has been shared).

    Comment by Matt — 5/9/2006 @ 1:16 pm

  21. Thats the way to present a presentation. In minimum time to comprehend the whole thing.Thanks for the link as i have missed the presentation!

    Comment by Anna — 5/23/2006 @ 8:16 am

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