I’ve been an advocate of friend-to-friend (F2F) filesharing for a long time. Rather than opening up your shared files to tens of thousands of peering eyes, you only give access to a selective group of people that you know and trust. Since most media sharing is typically based on recommendations via word-of-mouth, it only makes sense to transfer files directly. Most word-of-mouth online takes place around IM, forums and email, but filesharing hasn’t yet really found a fit in that mix.

So I tend to keep track of what’s out there in startup land, and AllPeers from day one gave me a major stiffy Yeah they can still screw it up if they don’t keep the focus on useful functionality, but I think they really have an opportunity. Anyway they just raised a round A so congrats guys. As usual TechCrunch has a great review of how the software works.