Today we heard that P2P browser plug-in AllPeers has shut down, a blow to a market that seemed very promising back in 2006. Indeed, with AllPeer's closure and the lack of progress of similar services such as Skyrider, we have to wonder about the viability of commercialising P2P as a service.
Back in August 2006 we wrote about a service called Skyrider, which at that point was promising they'd launch "by fall". A Skyrider press release from that time...