Leaf Networks Creates Peer-to-Peer Application for Facebook

Facebook has a new application called LeafWeb whose job is to let users invite some other users from their Facebook profile to play games on their own computer, using the virtual LAN service included in Leaf's p2p services, PC Magazine reports.

In case LeafWeb application is already installed Facebook senses it, but in case it’s not, Facebook helps you to get it quickly by downloading it with an installer resembling a Flash or Silverlight installer, said Jeff Capone, Leaf Networks' chief executive.

However, this not the only novelty Leaf has in mind - another application designed to allow users share their videos skipping uploading is being considered.

Capone assured that the "bootstrapping" code offered by Leaf as to enable peer-to-peer connections will be within the reach of any user. In addition, the company declared that starting with the new developers program it now considers having the APIs and its Web-based P2P platform accessible to developers.

"Once it is installed, it is a browser feature that *any* web developer can take advantage of…if someone else wants to write a new p2p web app, they just need to write a flash app; we give them some bootstrapping code that they need to include," Capone explained. "For example, if you wrote a MySpace p2p app and you already installed the Facebook app, the MySpace Flash app would use the same API, so from that perspective it really functions like flash or silverlight API. However, we might require the Flash or JavaScript app to pass a key to the API so we can control who is writing apps."