I thought this was interesting. I'm not terribly interested in file sharing in general but this is intriguing, especially with the potential with IM and presence.

Firefox Gets File Sharing Extension
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/2...1530227&tid=154

Preliminary information available at AllPeers.com
http://www.allpeers.com

(Note: The AllPeers site was slashdotted yesterday but it was available at least when I tried today.)

Gary

I think there is great potential in it. And in their blog (http://www.allpeers.com/blog/2005/12/22/al...rs-screenshots/) the state also this:

[quote]This view is currently used for sharing media files, and in the future we’ll be adding a presence API so that it can be hooked into other presence-aware software like instant messaging and VOIP clients.[/quote]

Of course if that was Skype first, that would be excellent.

Indeed, if Skype were open they could do some interesting things...