sorry, but i sometimes love to crap all over new stuff that i don’t use if - and only if - the following conditions are met: 1) if it’s got anything to do with bill gross from idealab (then you know it’s headed down the shitty river), 2) if it’s gonna solve problems for the world but the site owner details are private or anonymous, or 3) a poorly described and ill experienced management team attempts to simultaneously create and deliver about a dozen applications that mimic the functionality of offerings from ibm/lotus, groove (now microsoft), microsoft, ibm, yahoo/flickr, and google - all combined - and present it as some kinda panacea when in fact it’s just the glossy veneer that they’ve put up to cloak their advertising and marketing goals in which they dream of being like myspace-meets-every-app-you-need…oh, and get this: particularly ripe for teasing if they want you to pay money for what you can already get for free…in fact, why on earth would people pay for software anymore (kidding…sorta)?

did that make any sense? i’m talking about transmedia corp’s “glide effortless” super suite that came out after thanksgiving on the 30th of november but then had registration problems….if you take the time to visit this site, you’ll notice that this is like a whole bunch of crap that people are already doing online and through p2p applications…but they’ve put it all in one browser interface (as will ibm, microsoft, google, yahoo, et al)…and wow (!) - with a team of only one experienced architect who hasn’t invented anything you’ve ever heard of, these guys have built a dozen applications simultaneously that do everything that everybody else is already doing (you know, versus the guys at lotus, ibm and microsoft who actually created the market for integrated collaborative environments, internet based applications and services, etc by deploying large teams of brilliant architects and inventors to pioneer these markets)…

…these folks are gonna go the way of bloomba i’d say (gobbled up by yahoo), so no, i’m not taking stock…and i’m certain that they’re all wicked nice folks - but when the founder puts people like vogel and shamsai on the advisory board (entertainment industry), and the founder himself is really a producer, and the entire management/founding team smells like garage band buddies (almost all tied to music related stuff), and when the board consists of only the founder, then you can just tell that the entire thing is about the “shops” module, in which consumers swap music and a bunch of other shit….like a wannabe backdoor to grokster’s market pretending to offer serious application utility when all they really want to do is aggregate your little brains and collective interests to strike deals with hungry labels looking to usurp apple’s dominance in the future of digital music demand (oh sure, they also make it easy to buy groceries, but come on, a punch out to a bunch of already built commerce sites? that’s sooooo late 90’s)….claire leka is their poster-child site for how you can build with their tools, and it’s the most ridiculously bloated site i’ve ever seen (feels about one step above a shitty myspace site! ouch)….sorry glide, but i’ll pass and just wait for the big boys to deliver this feature set by integrating dozens of slick personal web services that have already been tested and tried and cost nothing to users…

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