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."

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OK, fine

[Hey Pope Felcher . .]

In fact, Leka explains, the system is smart enough to identify copyrighted music that has been uploaded by users into the system.

Err, how exactly?

Does it listen out for generic beats, mixed with generic vocalizations of generic lyrics, flavoured out by massive over production?

Any browser?

[ASUSanator]

Does it work in lynx? :P

TransMedia Corp

[taskforce]

The comparny who are pulling this off, http://www.transmediacorp.com/. The link wasn't included in the summary nor the article.

Personally, I think this looks very impressive, and it will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Re:TransMedia Corp

[Texas_Refugee]

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.

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/comp17650 .htm (in the document, search for RxRemedy) So let's see, his only listed previous company was investigated for investor fraud.

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.

Most likely not.

[CyricZ]

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.

Re:Storing data on my own computer.

[hoggoth]

>I don't want others to know that my nephew James has testicular cancer, and may lose his genitals.

Uncle Cy, I can't believe you just posted that.
Dad's right, you are an asshole.
Don't bothering visiting me in the hospital anymore.

-James