Glide Effortless today launched Glide Shops with Drop & Shop, the first browser-based drag and drop shopping environment. Glide's first shop out of the gate and just in time for the holiday season is Glide PhotoShare at www.glidephotoshare.com. The launch of Glide PhotoShare is the first of many shops scheduled to make their debut in December, January and beyond.
The Glide PhotoShare beta service is free and will enable users to upload, manage and share photos as well as order prints. Glide PhotoShare differentiates itself from online photo services with the most powerful, flexible and secure sharing tools in the industry.
Glide PhotoShare provides consumers with:
* 300MB of free upfront storage
* Drag and drop slideshow creation and shopping
* Automated multimedia web site publishing
* Automated multimedia blog publishing
* Integrated email photo and slideshow sharing - users can share photos and slideshows in tiny 5k emails with friends and family
* Built in online rights management - users can specify view, download and modify access to their photos and slideshows; they can even provide friends and family with rights to upload their photos
* Built in tracking - users can track how many times their photos are being viewed and downloaded
* Built in contact import and management - users can import their personal contacts from Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express for easy sharing.
By upgrading to a Glide Effortless subscription account, users can:
* Increase storage up to 4 GB today (and up to 40 GB on January 16th, 2006)
* Edit photos online with 12 levels of undo (available December 22nd)
Glide supports the following editing tools:
• Crop
• Black and White
• Scale
• Red Eye Reduction
• Grayscale
• Invert
• 90° rotation
• Flip
Glide has an advanced front end Flash interface coupled with powerful backend application services. As a result, Glide can support up to 12 levels of undo for non-destructive photo editing.
* Text, audio and video conferencing while also viewing photos and slideshows at the same time.
"Consumers have responded overwhelmingly to Glide Effortless and we are excited to launch Glide PhotoShare, the first of many Glide Shops," said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. "We believe Glide PhotoShare's innovations will be both useful and fun for consumers."