Comments on: PayPal co-founder readies photo-sharing service

Max Levchin's Slide, which lets members subscribe to one another's photo blogs, will launch Monday, CNET News.com has learned.
Images: Photo sharing via Slide

[Jabcast]

Desktop Marketing Bonanza

While this product is very niche-centric it does illustrate quite clearly that Desktop real-estate market continues to grow in value almost daily.

RSS is and will be the big buzz from 2005 to 2007 I suspect.

Free web services and products such as Slide.com and immem.com are all examples of the innovative ways to market end-users via Internet enabled desktop applications.

At our firm, Desktop Alert Inc. ,(http://www.desktopalert.net)we have seen a steep rise in orders for customized content management systems that employ and manage:

-RSS
-Secure Instant Messaging
-Contextual Ads
-Desktop Alert Software
-Blogs

The only thing that is different about each one of these new products is the creative juices illustrated by the applications founders/authors. Open source has also proved very crucial to the growth of such applications. We have all witnessed open source projects like Jabber, Firefox and Open Office flourish from rapid industry and private sector adoption.

The real evolution of the desktop is happening NOW. It now engages and participates with the Internet in what can only acknowledged as a historic event. Beneath our very nostrils is the biggest and most important aspect of the Internet is now underway.

Firms propagating identity federation technology (http://www.pingid.com and http://www.digitalidworld.com), security (http://www.jabcast.com) and biometrics will eventually eliminate most risk/security related issues which are currently hindering Internet growth.

I applaud this and many new Internet enabled desktop applications which are now arriving almost weekly in what I see as the New Desktop Revolution.

Regards,

Howard Ryan
Desktop Alert Inc.

[David Dudley]

wow

Nice plug their, Howie. Nobody cares about your stuff.

[Jabcast]

Your a Dud

You said nice try "their", wight?
OK. Let me try again in a way that works better for you and your ilk.

"hewhoah. how awe you toooday. wee awe bery bery hert dat u tink we do dings like dat Dudley. Tanks for making our day!"


"hewhoah. how awe you toooday. wee awe bery bery hert dat u tink we do dings like dat Dudley. Tanks for making our day!"

[Earl Benser]

Old idea well worked....

... by Apple, Yahoo, MS and others, with only limited success at
best. PLus, any one with even minimal web site skills can create all
sorts of photo albums readily accessible to anyone else on the
Internet.

I think that this concept has some nice gimmicks, but I don't see it
still being around a year from now. Other people, however, might
adapt the better gimmicks for their own use.

[David Dudley]

It will be gone soon enough

Seriously, Google could wipe this out with a bit of tweaking to Picasa.

Nice try, but this Slide software gets in the way, is altogether useless and is *only* good for sharing photos. And even then, who cares? It's like these guys missed the clue train and didn't see that social networking is more than just about sharing pics with your friends.

Anyhow, I tried it and uninstalled it within a few minutes. Maybe I am not creative enough, but really.. what's the point of this versus any other photo sharing web site that already has a ton more users? And this has NO CHANCE of ever getting any kind of critical mass - EVER. EVER. Looks like the ex PayPal guy ran out of ideas.

Where's the email address for getting uninvited from Slide?