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PCWorld - Attention Google, Glide is Setting the High Benchmark

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Hands On: Glide Adds New Micro-blogging App

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Glide Engage will no doubt be measured against micro-blogging’s reigning champ, Twitter. Engage allows you to micro-blog messages of 1,400 characters in length, which addresses the sometimes confining 140-character limit of Twitter. You can also embed media files and links in your posts with a single click. Your media files are organized in the background in the Glide file management system. In short, using Glide Engage feels a bit like using Twitter, but with a lot more control and functionality happening in the background.

 

But micro-blogging is just the first level. You can also initiate discussion groups with just a few clicks, inviting just the members of the community you want to participate. Afterwards, if the discussion was worth keeping, you can output the whole thing as a PDF or Word document with one click, and review or share the transcript later.

 

Engage also provides an impressive collaboration workspace, called Meeting, where you and your invitees can call up any type of file, view it, discuss it and make changes to it. During the demo today, Donald Leka pulled up both a music and a video file, played them, then began both a text-based chat and a video/voice chat with me to discuss the media in real time.

 

As in the micro-blogging and discussion groups functions, you can set exacting permissions around who may do what with the files you share. Some users may only read the files, while others may be given permission to edit them, but only in a certain time frame, for instance.

 

Engage is the latest of some twenty Glide productivity apps, which include word processing, photo editing, web presentation, web publishing, spreadsheet, and many more. The Glide applications are closely integrated with the Engage app, so that Glide users don’t have to move between various siloed applications in order to modify and share various types of files (i.e. music, photo, word docs, etc.) 

 

By far the coolest thing about the Glide cloud computing platform is that it is both OS and device-neutral. Glide works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris desktop operating systems, and on the iPhone, Blackberry, Palm, Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile mobile platforms.

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Summary:

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"Glide’s vision of a neutral, cloud-based OS and application suite may be setting the benchmark by which other bigger cloud computing players may be measured (attention Google Wave Development Team). And from what I’ve seen so far it’s a high benchmark."

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Chief Product Officer: Donald Leka

Glide OS, Jumptuit

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