Former AOLers Bet on Private P2P App

buhatkj writes "Some former AOL staffers have come up with something interesting. Namely, a P2P/instant messaging/groupware tool called Grouper. Sounds to me a bit like the GAIM plugin suggested by downhill battle..."

The just announced the name:

[Shut the fuck up!]

OMGWTFLOL.exe

Squeeze the Charmin.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Some former AOL staffers have come up with something interesting. Namely, a P2P/instant messaging/groupware tool called Grouper. "

Damn! I read that as Groper. Reach out. Reach out, and grope someone today.

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File sharing is the suxx0rz.

[rice_burners_suck]

This is a really bad idea. First of all, it will cause people to illegally share music, movies, software, and other valuable intellectual property. Because file sharing software makes the decisions, not its users.

By leveraging innovative technologies, content providers streamline compelling enterprise solutions.

The RIAA, MPAA, and Microsoft should get together to put a stop to this before it becomes a larger problem than it already is. That is, unless the FBI, CIA, the Justice Department, and the NSA figure out a way to keep track of which files are being shared, and then administer the death penalty without a trial.

Re:The reason they left?

[MillionthMonkey]

AOL is extremely unfriendly towards their employees developing P2P stuff. Remember Gnutella was first developed by Nullsoft, an AOL subsidiary? Remember that AOL tried to kill it but the genie was already out of the bottle? Remember WASTE was first developed by Nullsoft too? Remember it was only up for about a day before AOL shut that down as well?

No problem. We'll just pay a soccer mom to visit AOL headquarters and dance around on the table demanding P2P and warez, and we got it.

Re:The reason they left?

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always thought that a great way to improve the Internet is to block out all the AOLers. Can we get them onto their own kiddie pool so they don't bug the rest of us anymore? Yeah yeah, so they DO have their own kiddie pool...but we need to make sure they don't have the capabilities to leave.

And I dunno, soccer moms dancing on tables isn't exactly the wholesome content AOL would've liked.

well thought out!

[SkunkPussy]

Felser said rich media advertising will be embedded into the free version, and e-commerce tie-ins with online music stores and photo printing services will also offer business opportunities.

so no real business plan here then.

1. e-commerce tie-ins with online music stores and photo printing services
2. ???
3. profit

Re:Too late in the game...

[Anonymous Coward]

Will Justin Frankel sue you for ripping-off his source code?