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Glide File Sharing Service Debuts
Dotnaught writes "Glide Effortless has gone live. New York Times columnist David Pogue describes it as "full-blown online operating system" that's a mix of genius and interface awkwardness. (Glide has been covered previously on Slashdot.) Pogue concludes "Glide's core idea is unassailably fresh and useful. If TransMedia's plans for world domination fall into place, maybe it won't need an elevator pitch. Maybe 'You gotta try this' will be the only pitch it needs.""
...that's a mix of genius and interface awkwardness...
Sounds like the night I lost my virginity.
They are selling file sharing lube... let me reread that tube of astro-gli... It has to lube to fit a whole operating system in...
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The Apple® Mac OSX(TM) version of Glide Effortless is scheduled to be available on Christmas Day December 25, 2005.
Great, a reason for me to get up early of Christmas Day. Good thing I haven't got any family or friends!
It certainly LOOKS sweet; we'll see how it shakes out. Like I said, no OSX version 'til xmas, and linux version is '2006'... Certainly looks like a platform to watch, though! If it's half as good as it's hype, it's a great concept, and Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo will be buying it before St. Patty's Day.
Thinking outside my Head
Glide looks like a well put together app, and I imagine it will become quite popular. But I for one would never use it. I prefer to keep my data locally, for privacy and security reasons.
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Why do they want my credit card for the free subscription?
I don't plan on buying anything from their glide store, why assume I will?
Arash Partow's Philosophy: Be a person who knows what they don't know, and not a person who doesn't know.
What kind of legitimate service needs my credit card information to "verify" the details of my registration? I thought to myself, yeah, this sounds cool...give them my usual false info...then BANG...Please give us your credit card information even though you have selected the free account...We promise that no bad hackers can get your personal information... Whatever...these bozos wont last long... I use everything GOOGLE all day long, and they have never EVER asked me for my credit card.
MPAA and RIAA vs Glide
So I guess the only reason I would want to put my whole entire life online...would be common sense. Thanks but no thanks. Ill stick to the apps that already came with OSX.
Gee, thanks for yet another security nightmare in waiting!
No way will I ever use this while it asks for a Credit Card when you click Free Subscription.
Why would I give you that? Why do you need access to my money when I have no intention of buying anything from you. After all that was why I selected free.
Where they lose me is Glide Shops. One thing the world doesn't need is yetanother shopping portal - discount or no discount. It doesn't it fit their elegant, effortless, and automatic theme either. Shopping is messy.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx
So basically, it's a system that's let's me let other people see what I have, but they can't copy the file for themselves... Ingenious, from a legal standpoint, but I really doubt it'll pick up. From an older article: "The system is smart enough to identify copyrighted music that has been uploaded by users into the system."http://informationweek.com/story/showArtic le.jhtml?articleID=173402852
If the system is that smart, why would a "no-copying"policy be required? Hmmm ? Since the files being shared aren't copyrighted, I shouldn't be prohibited from sharing them.
Me says this is a piece of schizophrenic software that doesn't really know where it wants to be, and it probably will be too bandwidth hungry for most people to present any kind of interest.
But then again, maybe I haven't understood the thing :-/
Many of the services offered looks like either something google already offers or might want to offer. What are the odds that this company will be bought by google? Pretty low I'd say.
Seriously - do the editors get paid to post these stories?
They're asking for credit card, like a typical p0rn site. Forget this. If they want me to try it out for free, they can nix the credit card requirement.
Somewhat off topic, but I thought that the interface for the IHT webpage was one of the best I'd ever seen - it really minimizes the amount of scrolling you have to do and it felt much easier to read. Why haven't more news sites used this?
David Pogue describes it as "full-blown online operating system"
Right... so why on earth should I give his opinon any creedance when its ovbious he does not even know what an OS does, to me Glide... look like Yet Another Blog Site
Pie menus, web services, file sharing and DRM... this has the makings of the longest Slashdot flamewar in history. I suppose the only remaining question is, does it run faster in Gnome or KDE?
They don't even support ogg-vorbis, PNG or OASIS openDocuments.
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http://www.glidedigital.com/supported_formats.asp
Sounds like a nice idea, but who really has that much bandwidth?
It's not exactly rocket surgery.
First, I tried to to click the Sign In link and got an IIS Runtime error (at least they turned off descriptive error messages) and then when I tried to authenticate with asdfg/asdfg I got a siezure enducing Authenticating message which never ended.
Guess that marketing slogan "Just Try It" isn't going to sell anything. And as I have read in the other comments, I would NEVER give out my credit card information to register for a service like this. With the nth degree applications being developed on the web, there is zero reason to give out my CC info.
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Obligatory: ... with everyone on MS windows. Albeit unwillingly.
For a long time people have been able to share their documents, music,
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
...many others here, I find it very off-putting that I'm required to enter my credit card details for a free trial. That very requirement has just lost them a customer, since I refuse to provide credit card details to people who don't intend to charge me for anything.
:(
I remember free-trial-card-required things like this from a few years back, and I didn't take them up then. I don't really enjoy having sites store my credit card information at all, and wish they wouldn't. After all, what's to stop a billing error, or a hacker harvesting my card number, or a disgruntled employee using my card to buy kiddie porn, or anything else? One-off entry is much nicer. I just wish I knew for sure how many internet stores kept records of my card details, before finding out the hard way one day
Game dev and music blog
Can someone please tell, what's so special about this?
A CMS that you can sign up for? WOW...
Sounds like a sexual lubricant.
Wow! An online storage company! What a brilliant idea!
Gimme a break, there are about a zillion companies like this. We found they fall into 3 categories:
1. Companies trying to sell you something (photo developing, cd's, stupid pop-ups, etc) in the most annoying way possible.
2. Companies pretending to be low cost and doing underhanded things with your data
3. Companies that take an honest approach, and tell you upfront what it's going to cost.
FWIW, we've used Centaur for a while now. They are windows-only (groan), but the interface is simple enough even for my computer-challenged/ high-maintainance clients.
From the sign-up process: "No, I wish to be keep a private profile in Glide."... Um, yeah, I wish to be keep from grammer.
/LM/W3SVC/251460291/Root-18-127778646896134700 Calling Assembly: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\tempo rary asp.net files\root\7b14840e\a877634c\assembly\dl2\f25a4630 \6b4c05ce_b9f5c501\transmedia.dll TransMedia, Version=1.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a841b3caad74b8d8 Operating System: Win32NT 5.2.3790.0 Process ID: 5356 Process Main Module: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe Thread Identity: UNKNOWN 1) System.InvalidOperationException:
o cessRegistration() in C:\transmedia\src\glide\1.0\wwwroot\account\regist er\finish.aspx.cs:line 135
And, finally, after clicking "Finish":
Registration Error
An error occurred while processing your registration.
The following is the DEBUG error (you'll want to remove debug for production releases):
EXCEPTION FROM System.Drawing: The object is currently in use elsewhere.
Timestamp (UTC): 12/01/2005 11:53:55 AppDomain:
EXCEPTION FROM System.Drawing: The object is currently in use elsewhere. Message: The object is currently in use elsewhere. TargetSite: Void Save(System.String, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo, System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters) HelpLink: (NULL) Source: System.Drawing Stack Trace: at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageCodecInfo encoder, EncoderParameters encoderParams) at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageFormat format) at Glide.Www.Account.register.RegisterFinishPage._Pr
Ah, yes, the excellent lameness filter. Let us marvel at the technological complexity that denies us from posting meaningful information and yet fails to prevent trolls from crapflooding the bejeesus of Slashdot.
The Glide Free Subscription requires your credit card number "for verification purposes". There are other ways to check, and since I don't like giving out my credit card number for no real reason, I think I'll pass.
Not all adults have credit cards.
503 Sig Unavailable
The Signature could not be accessed. Please try again later or contact the administrator
...or does this news post seem more like an ad than news? 83% of it is just blather from some journalist whose seems as far from being a Slashdotter as I am from being a Chinese jet pilot.
The concept is great. I would love nothing more than to put my photos and mp3s online so I could share them easily with friends... but 3gb?!?
It's pretty hard to realise their dream of "putting all your media online" with a limit of 3gb.
And here I was thinking that 3dfx's work was all for nothing.
I don't see how this is new. It exists already a long time and it's called .Mac
Exercise caution when modding this message up: the author acts like a jerk when his karma is excellent.
What kind of browser plugin does it use for video and audio?
The article says:
The Glide of today is already a vast collection of tools. But it's nothing compared with what the company says is on the way: a full-blown Internet music store; an online store that lets you order products by dragging their icons into a shopping-cart "container"; a Unix version; a timeline calendar module; a built-in photo-editing suite; playback of music file formats beyond MP3; and even a corporate version.
All this from a company of only 24 people?
Behold the advantage of open source: a small number of people quickly can make something really cool, by building on code that is already out there. You need to play any music file format? No problem, just hack something together using SOX. Photo-editing suite? Reading multiple image-formats is simple, just take some code from GIMP or SDLimage.
Back in the 90s one of the big selling points of OOP was code reusability saving time developing new products. Didn't work so well then, partly because of the difficulty in developing a collection of high quality parts. What we are seeing now with the internet and open source is a rich library of useful code that anyone can use, so long as they are willing to give back to the community.
Qxe4
Registration Error An error occurred while processing your registration.
The following is the DEBUG error (you'll want to remove debug for production releases):
EXCEPTION FROM System.Drawing: The object is currently in use elsewhere.
Timestamp (UTC): 12/01/2005 12:21:44 AppDomain: /LM/W3SVC/251460291/Root-18-127778646896134700 Calling Assembly: c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\tempo rary asp.net files\root\7b14840e\a877634c\assembly\dl2\f25a4630 \6b4c05ce_b9f5c501\transmedia.dll TransMedia, Version=1.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a841b3caad74b8d8 Operating System: Win32NT 5.2.3790.0 Process ID: 5356 Process Main Module: c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe Thread Identity: UNKNOWN 1) System.InvalidOperationException:
Message: The object is currently in use elsewhere. TargetSite: Void Save(System.String, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo, System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters) HelpLink: (NULL) Source: System.Drawing Stack Trace: at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageCodecInfo encoder, EncoderParameters encoderParams) at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageFormat format) at Glide.Www.Account.register.RegisterFinishPage._Pro cessRegistration() in C:\transmedia\src\glide\1.0\wwwroot\account\regist er\finish.aspx.cs:line 135
Return to Glide Digital Home
Reality or nothing.
as it turns out, when the trial period expires they charge you for the next month, ie. its an *opt-out* 'free' trial.
not only that, but you cant even email them to opt-out, you have to call them during *their* business hours... this really gave me the shits being in singapore and having to wait around till they decide to pick up the phone.
lets hope these characters arent going down that path... roping people into ongoing payments is pretty high on my do not touch list.
mastercard 4929 123 123 123 passes luhn10 -- we use it when testing ecommerce systems.
I prefer to store data on my own computer, for privacy reasons. I will not use these services for sensitive, private data, because I do not know who else has access to said data. And I see no point in using their service only for non-sensitive needs, while returning to my existing solutions for private matters. I doubt their service offers anything beyond what is already possible with a solid Linux or BSD setup, while costing far more and lacking the security I've come to expect.
Check out my website: Playfully Clever
More like yet another online media store with a few bells
and whistles. The marketing types there perhaps should
go look up the definition of "operating system".
Hardly ground breaking this.
and instantly got charged for a $3000 camera.
...sounds like the name of a personal lubricant.
I started signing up, just to check out the site. Got to the mandatory credit card, pressed Cancel, and probably won't try it again for a few weeks to see if they've changed it. If not, this'll be a service I simply don't use.
Glide: I don't lightly give my credit card number out to random internet sites -- especially when I'm not buying anyting. I'm not paying for the next gimmick until I've seen if it's useful. If you won't let me see if it's useful without my credit card, then you've lost a potential customer, and I've moved on with my life the way it's always been.
When the network goes down your machine stops working. The network really is the machine. I can see this being useful in some places but I can see this would be a major pain in rear for a lot of users. I hated working on terminals. There was always so much lag.
I'll stick with my NFS mounted home directory and a local OS I think.
I used to have a better sig but it broke.
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
And of course I don't have flash installed...
/LM/W3SVC/251460291/Root-2-127779294409519363a ry asp.net files\root\6affd2d6\ef5c2d2b\assembly\dl2\cc224206 \6b4c05ce_b9f5c501\transmedia.dll TransMedia, Version=1.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a841b3caad74b8d8
o cessRegistration() in C:\transmedia\src\glide\1.0\wwwroot\account\regist er\finish.aspx.cs:line 135
Registration Error
An error occurred while processing your registration.
The following is the DEBUG error (you'll want to remove debug for production releases):
EXCEPTION FROM System.Drawing: The object is currently in use elsewhere.
Timestamp (UTC): 12/01/2005 12:58:19
AppDomain:
Calling Assembly: c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\tempor
Operating System: Win32NT 5.2.3790.0
Process ID: 2732
Process Main Module: c:\winnt\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe
Thread Identity: UNKNOWN
1) System.InvalidOperationException:
Message: The object is currently in use elsewhere.
TargetSite: Void Save(System.String, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageCodecInfo, System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters)
HelpLink: (NULL)
Source: System.Drawing
Stack Trace:
at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageCodecInfo encoder, EncoderParameters encoderParams)
at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageFormat format)
at Glide.Www.Account.register.RegisterFinishPage._Pr
either they have very good servers or not many people are willing to giveout their Credit Card Info to just try it out
I go to register, put in the graphic code and:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
... there's actually a use for my old Diamond Monster II card?!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
The following is the DEBUG error (you'll want to remove debug for production releases): "EXCEPTION FROM System.Drawing: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Timestamp (UTC): 12/01/2005 13:19:10 AppDomain: /LM/W3SVC/251460291/Root-2-127779294409519363 Calling Assembly: c:\winnt\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\tempora ry asp.net files\root\6affd2d6\ef5c2d2b\assembly\dl2\cc224206 \6b4c05ce_b9f5c501\transmedia.dll TransMedia, Version=1.0.1.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a841b3caad74b8d8 Operating System: Win32NT 5.2.3790.0 Process ID: 2732 Process Main Module: c:\winnt\system32\inetsrv\w3wp.exe Thread Identity: UNKNOWN 1) System.NullReferenceException:
Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. TargetSite: Int32 GdipSaveImageToFile(System.Runtime.InteropServices .HandleRef, System.String, System.Guid ByRef, System.Runtime.InteropServices.HandleRef) HelpLink: (NULL) Source: System.Drawing Stack Trace: at System.Drawing.SafeNativeMethods.GdipSaveImageToFi le(HandleRef image, String filename, Guid& classId, HandleRef encoderParams) at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageCodecInfo encoder, EncoderParameters encoderParams) at System.Drawing.Image.Save(String filename, ImageFormat format) at Glide.Www.Account.register.RegisterFinishPage._Pro cessRegistration() in C:\transmedia\src\glide\1.0\wwwroot\account\regist er\finish.aspx.cs:line 135"
I just got this error msg when i tried to complete my registration for glide..
Cute isn't it? Someone forgot to turn off debugging
I just want to know if the people who wrote Glide were Phish fans? :)
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
...is never criticise anything that's close to the heart's of /. readers.
Comments on slashdot:
- so what, who cares who this guy is? This implies there's a problem with the content of Wikipedia, low signal to noise.
- so what, he can edit it himself!!!1111!!one!!! True. But then someone else can edit it back. (A situation that occured in an example given by The Register when it ran a slightly Wikipedia-isn't-the-best-thing-since-chips article over the summer).
Can't there - just once - be a slight problem with something FOSS related. Just once. Or let's pretend Linux is trivial to install with every piece of hardware in existance and FireFox never crashes.
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
WTF? They are charging for BETA? Since when is this how things are done? Who would want to pay for software that isn't even FINISHED and fully debugged? Oi. Google, I love ya, but you really have set a bad example since now everyone thinks that beta just means new and exciting.
One never knows when one might need a rotten tomato... - King's Quest IV: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow
"...patent-pending Glide Action Bubble..."
So they're trying to patent context-sensitive popup menus? Wankers.
"no more grayed out items"
With current "grayed out items" I know I have not completed all of the required steps to make use of that feature. So I check the help/google and jump through all the necessary hoops and make use of that item, easy.
in the glide world I will not even know that function exists so never try and change what I am doing to make it available. I just assume that the glide app does not provide the feature i need.
In an ideal world all the possible features/options I want to use will be painfully obvious based on the steps I have taken so far but this world is far from ideal.
I just hope that either the apps never have much functionality, in which case I will not need to use it or there is a "show me grayed out items" button (that is itself not grayed out)
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Does someone know why they don't at least offer a Java JIKE version? And why do they 'need' a Credit Card. The only credit card I have is for two thing, neither of wich is to get reemed by a CMS.
Where after 3-4 hours!!! of attempted "interfaces" and many "Wait! stop it hurts!! Let's try again in 30 minutes" I wound up "interfacing" finally. After it was all over she said to me
"I think that was in the wrong spot"
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
Pie menus are God's gift to idiots. Bad UI ... they should get the clue: human data is best arranged in rectangles. Now, maybe some alien species fares better with circular data regions, so perhaps Glide can market this to them.
random underscore blankspace at ya know hoo dot comedy.
Simply put this interface makes no sense. I hven't even managed to add a file yet and have been using it for 3-4 minutes. Should it be this hard? Also, the every morphing/moving/flexing design is annoying as piss.
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Frog blast the vent core.
From TransMedia (Glide creator) Terms and Conditions:
Materials provided to TransMedia or Posted at any TransMedia Web Site
TransMedia does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to TransMedia (including feedback and suggestions) or post, upload, input or submit to any Services or its associated services for review by the general public, or by the members of any public or private community, (each a "Submission" and collectively "Submissions"). However, by posting, uploading, inputting, providing or submitting ("Posting") your Submission you are granting TransMedia, its affiliated companies and necessary sublicensees permission to use your Submission in connection with the operation of their Internet businesses (including, without limitation, all TransMedia Services), including, without limitation, the license rights to: copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Submission; to publish your name in connection with your Submission; and the right to sublicense such rights to any supplier of the Services....
What this basically means is that you're giving them management rights to whatever you're posting on their service. So if you're a starving artist and you store your next hit song on their service, they have the right to copy, distribute, transmit etc. that song, or just sublicense it to someone else.
This is wrong. They are basically asking for you to give up all the rights without any compensation for it just by using the service. I definitively won't be using this service.
TANSTAAFL
So they call themselves "Glide" and have a stylized paper airplane in their logo. Or more properly a paper dart, as these things don't glide very well at all, and only seem to fly if given a strong push and you don't expect much. So this logo says to me that Glide will require a strong (PR) effort to go anywhere at all, and even then it probably won't fly worth a damn. Mindless marketing, I'd call it.
I know my first reaction to this is similar to many others -- keep all my data on someone else's servers? No thanks. But maybe the "permanent" merging of IE and Windows was just step one in the seemingly inevitable convergence of desktop OS and Internet. Step two was a plethora of security flaws that got people used to the fact that their data could possibly be easily accessed by unknown entities on the web. Step three, which is starting now, is to let other companies innovate the technology and work out the bugs and issues involved. Then of course use their monopo^H^H^H market share to take over the market. This would be followed by, "So, keep your data on your own pc that you know we can't secure for you, or keep it on our WinNet(tm) servers which are secure? No more worrying about security / virus / malware updates - we take care of that for you! Access all your data from anywhere! All for a low monthly fee!" Think about it...
Ignore anything I said above, I actually agree with everything you believe - mod accordingly.
come on, does no one remember the majesty of using glide on those voodoo3s instead of opengl or directx?
For x@!*£$ sake, it's a pie-menu. You can't patent those, they've been around for ever. Someone buy these clowns a clue.
This sounds an awful lot like Streamload.com which has been out for years. Streamload lets you upload and download files and share files, which are transfered to another user's account in seconds as a link to the download. I used it for a while, even paying for the minimum subscription, when some of my friends were overseas. Granted it didn't have the fancy pants interface of glide and some of the other features...
I see the same problem on many web pages. I've adjusted the fonts in the browser so I can read things easily and then some web designer seems to believe that nobody would ever do that, so their layout breaks. I used to email people with screenshots, but it never seemed to do much good. If designers would just lay things out with dimensions specified in ems rather than pixels much of this would not be a problem. Then again there are the flash sites where the user has no control at all. Though the mozilla flash blocker does handle those well.
I don't trust anything that requires me to input credit card information to verify age. Should I really trust their servers with my credit card info?
Click Click Bloody Click PANCAKES!
Until it required a Credit card to continue. Sorry, I don't give out that information for 'FREE' subscription services.
Plus, this looks a LOT like the "Share you Drive Space" services that were quickly taken over by the warez scene and then closed down because they could not get anyone to actually see the USE of these services. If I want to have all my information available, I buy a notebook. If I want to have all my bookmarks and passwords and what not, I buy a USB drive. If I want to share those pics or videos or music I either send them email, setup an FTP, or establish a Web Page.
What happens when I don't have net access? If I have the ability to access the web, obviously I will be using a computer to do that......
So why do you want me to pay you to hold my stuff?
You keep going until you die..."Me".
Look at the page javascript: http://www.iht.com/js/articlelayout.js/.
It's pretty clever, they just divide up the article text and show/hide it with style settings. If you do View->Page Style->No Style (in firefox) you see the raw page layout (including the full article text), everything else, like positioning the main article and everything, is CSS.
This is CLASSIC bad programming/commenting - "(you'll want to remove debug for production releases)". Jeezus.
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It's not a good thing that you can't create an account, or even log-in to this service. I don't think that they are going to get many new people if their web site crashes!
free...
http://www.foldershare.com/
no file limit- other than your bandwidth.
make a folder, share it with a family member- keep all your family photos on both machines.
warning, initial can be a BITCH if you have a lotta files.. do it a chunk at a time.
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
That's my cc number you insensitive clod!
man, I feel like mold.
I also thought I'd take a look. Clicked on "Sign Up" button and caused a server application error. It's probably the Slashdot effect, but perhaps they don't want MY credit card. *sigh*
Anyways, Here's the error, looks like IIS to me.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
Your giving them complete rights to your data. Who the fuck would use a service like that? That shouldn't even be legal.
If you wanna get rich, you know that payback is a bitch
Visa and Mastercard are owned by the same company. :)
Ever notice how Visa only compares themselves to American Express?
They decided to keep the other brand (Mastercard) alive for whatever reason, though.
3dfx is coming back! I know it! They can't use the Glide name, it'll cause confusion when 3dfx makes its big comeback and is a common household name, and not a distant memory withering away into obscurity! Sure, bite your thumb at me, but I'll be the one laughing when my Voodoo 6 runs DNF better than your GeForce 12.
WHO NEEDS SHIFT WHEN YOU HAVE CAPSLOCK/ DAMN1
... run on Lin---Wait, no, apparently not - yet. Guess I'll have to wait until the beginning of 2006 to see what all the fuzz is about. :-(
How come everybody is promising Linux and MacOS X support later (cf. Google Talk)? Why not actually launch when it's ready for all 3 major OSes? (I know, "release early, release often", I've read The Cathedral and the Bazaar too, but it doesn't say that you shouldn't try to release for all OSes around the same time.) This really annoys me more than when no Linux/MacOS X support is promised at all.
"Live free or don't."
How is it even POSSIBLE to view, play, etc a file without copying it to your computer at least temporarily? I don't see how this sidesteps copyright issues. If this gets popular there will be a crack out almost instantly to let you keep the files you "aren't copying," just like you can with other solutions to this problem like streaming audio/video.
There are numerous applications out there like Glide Digitals portal. Look at http://freewebtown.com/ This application is free and has 5 times the bells and whistles that Glide has and it has been up and running for over 2 years and houses approx 335,000 user on a single server. This company is sitting on something huge and they dont even know it.
I for one would think that means HTTPS, which I didn't see (http:/// url), and the little lock was missing!! But seriously, if they can't even make simple use of HTTPS when they say they are going to, how can I trust them to distribute my crappy music to others? Or how do I know any of my files are secure, for that matter.
Thanks, but no thanks.
(If they are using some other way of collecting the information "securly," feel free to reply and let me know)
Scott Swezey
I tried to sign up for the free service, and just to be sure I wasn't charged, I used a junk CC number. Sure enough, I got the following message today:
Glide Membership Billing
Dear Heywood,
Your Glide Membership fee of $4.95 has been charged to your credit card ending in 3456.
I don't know what the Times guy was smoking, but from the main page, this looked totally lame. I don't see what if anything is special about Glide. Now Glide Memorial Church, that's another thing.
sulli
RTFJ.
Reading David Pogue's review - who by the way is no particular friend to the open source movement and didn't even criticize Glide's DRM - it becomes clear that the reality of Glide is seriously out of sync with this article's hyping of it.
I have to wonder how large a PayPal "donation" the author DotNaught got from Glide for prostituting his integrity like this.
Mark
I have spent quite a bit of time on Glide Effortless, and have released a review on the day of its release 48 hours ago. I have received a 1.5 hrs live demo from them and have audio interviewed Donald Leka CEO of the company. As I have extensively written in my own article at http://tinyurl.com/e3g2z, this is really just an overly ambitious project, with, in my opinion, little solid foundation in terms of true seamless integration, true benefits for the final user, and more than anything with a failed understanding of how an online product must be marketed and sold today. Yes, I do acknowledge that their buzz campaign has been phenomenal, to the point that my trust and respect for both the New York Times and Slashdot, which has covered twice this story, has fastly decreased. With all the real good work out there, I really wonder what kind of friends and contacts this Transmedia corporation has to get all of this coverage for a tool that if you had to use today, would fall short on most any front.
If you want to try a service that a) does a good bit of what Glide claims to do and b) is free and doesn't require a credit card to verify anything, try Avvenu.
And yes, I work for them.
Vista:XPSP2::ME:98SE