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Glide Effortless to Compete in File Sharing Market
Dotnaught writes "InformationWeek is running a story about a new consumer application suite called Glide Effortless that's slated to be released in mid-November. Think of it as iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iCal, Mail, document sharing, shopping, and a few other apps all in one seamless application hosted as a service on the Web that could be accessed by any browser on any computer. It allows file sharing without the risk of illegal copying. It might prove a viable competitor to iTunes, if it works as advertised and if it can scale to handle millions of users."
I know you're kidding, but the fact of the matter is that they probably won't. They'll probably just scan for filenames containing a name of a famous artist or band. A threatening letter will be sent automatically, even in cases of non-infringement.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
This sounds just like what google is supposed to be trying to do... Free web-based versions of applications, including the supposed office suite, and the mail... But they've beaten google to parts of it; the question is whether this will discourage google from continuing, and if they will be as successful as google has been with this type of venture.
Are you kidding? This is the worst vaporware announcement I have ever seen. They can't even keep their webservers up. If some no-name startup can come out of nowhere and build what is described as 10 times more complete and complicated than anything I have ever seen before, I tend to think it is complete bullshit.
0 .htm (in the document, search for RxRemedy) So let's see, his only listed previous company was investigated for investor fraud.
If things like this exist, they dont magically ship completely formed. You hear about them for a while and then they slowly add features and scale up. From what I can tell from the google cache, there is not a single reputable technology person in the company, only a nobody CEO.
According to his bio, he was previously a director at "RxRemedy" which apparently no longer exists. In fact that company was under investigation by the SEC according to a simple google search. Here is a link to the SEC investigation into the company that my google search for RxRemedy turned up: http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/comp1765
What a freaking joke. This man probably belongs in prison.
I am amazed that slashdot would put vaporware garbage like this on their front page.
So, is anyone else getting tired of these Slashvertisement product announcements on the /. front page?
Geez, go to Digg.com for all the up to the minute tech news that you're missing if you only stick around here (the press is already labeling it a "Slashdot killer").
"Sufferin' succotash."
Slashvertising must be cheap too.
Indeed. If you follow the link to the homepage of the submitter of this story, you'll see that it leads to Thomas Clayburn's weblog. Follow the link to the submitted article, and you'll see that it's written by Thomas Clayburn. Of course, it's not immediately obvious, because, when submitting this article, Thomas Clayburn hid behind the alias "Dotnaught".
I'm also a bit wary that Transmedia's website, the company behind this product, uses almost identical styles to both of Thomas Clayburn's websites. Just look at those grey microfonts for example, and it goes right down to similar coding styles. However, apart from superficial similarities, I didn't turn up anything definitive.