P2P TOOLBOX: 30+ Peer to Peer Services

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Skype's downtime this week has everyone speaking about P2P again. Here's our take on more than 30 of the leading peer to peer services.

Software

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AllPeers - A Firefox extension that works on a P2P principle to distribute files amongst co-workers, family, and friends.

Ares P2P - Peer-to-peer file sharing with built in audio and video players, chat rooms and more.

BitTorrent - The software that started the torrent craze and sets the standard.

Collanos - A P2P system for collaborative teams to work on projects and transmit their work amongst their work group.

Freenet Project - A decentralized peer-to-peer project with the hopes of keeping freedom of speech alive on the Internet with no fear of censorship.

GNUnet - A secure peer-to-peer system for file sharing.

WiredReach - A peer-to-peer system for businesses to help with the movement of confidential files from one co-worker's desktop to another.

Television Broadcasting

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Babelgum - Numerous themed channels such as music, trends, and anime.

CoolStreaming - International news, games, MTV shows and more.

Cybersky CTV - Sharing streaming television from all over the world, no matter what its original means of delivery.

Jaman - Brings independent and world movies to your computer. Sign up and get three free movies to try them out.

Joost - From Comedy Central shows to Godzilla movies, offers a wider variety of choices. Created by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the founders of Skype and Kazaa.

LiveStation - As the name implies, LiveStation focuses on bringing you TV as it happens.

MediaBlog - Allowing anyone to run a video or audio channel from their home computer utilizing P2P infrastructure.

Miro - Offers HD choices, download YouTube videos; an open source solution you can help with.

Open Media Network - Focusing on educational audio and video programming.

Reel-Joe - An upcoming video-on-demand service.

Reeltime - An online movie and TV video subscription service that delivers content via peer-to-peer.

Tribler - Part P2P network, part social networking: the program will exchange selected personal info with others you connect to.

Vuze - Formerly just the bittorrent client named Azureus, they now also sell and distribute legal content.

Zattoo - Broadcasting TV around the world with a focus on Europe.

Peercasting

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FreeCast - Lets you broadcast an audio stream with as low as a DSL connection.

Octoshape - Allows anyone to get started in peer to peer multicasting.

PeerCast - Enjoy existing audio and video streams or start your own.

RawFlow - For everyone from an individual to corporations, RawFlow can help you get started with your peer-to-peer stream.

TVU Networks - Broadcasting TV from around the world and providing everyone the same opportunity.

Communication

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Avaya - A former big-wig in the PBX phone industry, with the advent of P2P phone technology, they decided to embrace the technology.

BlueNote Networks - Enables a company to build their own Skype-like system to connect tele-workers, remote offices, suppliers and more.

CSpace - Text chat, file transfer, remote desktop, all based on peer-to-peer technology.

Global Village - A product of Zoom Technologies which was a well-known modem maker in the dial-up age.

Iwatsu - A corporate phone provider that handles many different protocols including SIP.

Popular Telephony - An Internet telephony solution for businesses based on P2P technology.

SIPphone - Uses the Session Initiation Protocol to make free SIP-to-SIP calls.