TransMedia released today Glide Effortless 1.1 the first major upgrade at http://www.glidedigital.com . Version 1.1 ushers in the advent of the Glide Society, the “safe” online social community to express yourself with powerful publishing, sharing and communication tools while protecting your right to privacy.
The Glide Society
The Glide Society is a very different social networking environment designed to protect children and adults alike. The phenomenal growth of social networking sites must be accompanied by responsible technologies to empower parents to protect children against sexual predators and adults from online schemes to extract their most personal information.
“In designing the Glide Society, we felt a compelling social networking solution would provide unprecedented creative possibilities for members to express themselves combined with exceptional security for children and adults – features lacking from existing online social networking communities,” said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. “Our paramount concern is to provide consumers with the tools to protect their right to privacy online.”
The fact is prevailing advertising revenue-based business models are at the heart of the problem when it comes to protecting the right to privacy online. Advertising based revenue models create a financial necessity for companies to make it as easy as possible for consumers to register for their online services and in so doing secure more “eyeballs” to view their ads. Users in most cases are not required to provide adequate verification of their true identity. These circumstances allow users to easily create false identities and email accounts which are the weapon of choice used for spam and phishing schemes as well as sexual predatory activities in traditional online social networking communities. In fact, some of America’s leading technology companies and venture firms provide the means for spammers, phishers, pirates and sexual predators to engage in these harmful and illegal activities.
“The root cause is anonymous identity,” said TransMedia Chairman and CEO, Donald Leka. “The Glide solution begins with knowing who each of our customers are. Because Glide is not reliant on advertising revenue, we can afford to balance community growth with community protection. The Glide Society not only makes it easy for people to connect with family, friends and peers but safe as well.”
The Glide Society provides its members with powerful creative, sharing and communication tools for self-expression. Glide Canvas allows you to create graphically stunning and highly customizable web publications with easy to use web publishing tools that require no installed software – only a browser and an Internet connection. In contrast to pre-fabricated websites, Glide Canvas provides unprecedented possibilities for consumers to customize their web presence through dramatically different personalized websites. Users can personalize the actual templates in addition to adding video, music, photos, documents and site text. Users can then share with family, friends and peers through video, audio and text conferencing and of course email. In addition, users can organize their web publications and files with categories, captions, tags and even skins making them easily searchable.
Glide Protection
Glide provides unprecedented control over what files and web publications you decide to make public or private and who can communicate with you.
Glide protects your:
1) Glide inbox from spam mail, phishing schemes and other illicit activities with user controlled contact management settings;
2) websites, blogs and personal information from search engine meta-crawlers with user controlled privacy settings;
3) files from online pirates and hackers – users control who can view, download and modify their files and when – track who is viewing their files and how many times; and
4) files with an extra layer of password protection by locking containers for enhanced privacy.
The Glide Family Plans (With Glide Child Protect)
Powerful parental controls in Glide family accounts provide parents with peace of mind.
Only parent pre-approved contacts may communicate with their child in Glide. Children do not have access to view or change child safe status settings on any account preferences or files. Parents also decide what Glide environments a child can use, how much storage a child is allocated and whether or not the child can share files and with whom. In addition, parents can see and manage all files, containers, blogs, published sites and communications of the child.
Every file uploaded to Glide, as well as every container created, blog or web site published, is by default marked as not child safe. Only the child’s parents can allow access.
Glide Family Account Pricing and Features
Glide provides a secure environment for children through two affordable family account options.
Glide Family Standard: 4 family member pack with 3 GB of storage for $9.95 monthly or $99.95 annually; additional family members can be added for $3.95 monthly or $39.95 annually; additional storage can be purchased up to 40 GB.
Glide Family Premium (includes audio and video conferencing with integrated media viewing and sharing): 4 family member pack with 6 GB of storage for $14.95 monthly or $149.95 annually; additional family members can be added for $4.95 monthly or $49.95 annually; additional storage can be purchased up to 40 GB.