Ares in the Greek mythology is the god of war.  Ares, son of Zeus and Hera and half-brother to Athena, also a deity of war.  Athena stance was one of strategic warfare.  Ares was unpredictable in war.  The reading of his character remains ambiguous, in a late 6th-century funerary inscription from Attica: “Stay and mourn at the tomb of dead Kroisos/ Whom raging Ares destroyed one day, fighting in the foremost ranks”.  Ares is the god of war.

Another one bit the dust recently as AllPeers, Firefox’s filesharing extension, shut down and ceased operations. The extension was popular for allowing users to create filesharing networks to share files with friends.

Although it was at one time considered an essential Firefox addon, the filesharing app was apparently not used very much. While it had something of a cult following, AllPeers failed to attract wider attention. It’s a bit of a sad loss for filesharing.

AllPeers didn’t achieve the kind of growth that its developers had hoped for and so they pulled the plug. They basically ran out of money and decided to call it a day, which is fair enough.

The good news is that the filesharing app was open source and will be available on a host in the near future. There is a slim chance then that another party may pick up the addon and bring it back to life. The AllPeers blog will carry on as usual.