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Slide is a new way of photo sharing. It gives you a desktop software. Once installed it would indexing all your photos in the hard disks, and categorized them into channels. With channels you could invite your friends (who should have an account in Slide too, I guess) to view your selected photos. That’s the new way of photo sharing, kind of P2P. But not really p2p, you are requried to register at Slide and you could have the options of desktop viewing and published your photos on web.

One particular feature of Slide is the software would stick at your desktop and “playback” your photos with a always-on ticket interface. The always on slide show feature seem to be an unique UI feature and allow alerting of your friends’ new shared photos.

Many companies are working on social-networking type of software. What Slide is trying to accomplish would be like what others trying to add more and more into the current sharing framework — photo sharing, tagging, subscribing (Flickr provide photo channel subscribing via RSS too), text, video, IM (Instant Messaging).…etc. Looks as if someone manage to incorporate all kind of sharable contents (stuff interesting to share) would be the winner. But the ease of use of the software interface would always be the key factor to differentiate from all the competitors. Slide claimed their software usablitity is what they are different than others. You might want to give it a try.