PayPal Founder Developing Photo-Sharing Service
ZDNet reports that PayPal co-founder Max Levchin is now developing a new photo-sharing service called Slide. Slide is entering a crowded field that includes leaders like Flickr, Webshots and Snapfish. ZDNet says Slide will offer some unique features to distinguish themselves from the crowd such as the "playback" slide show feature.
Slide's "playback," or slide show, feature is unique too, Levchin said. The desktop toolbar looks like a strip of film with different photos in each frame, and it continually scrolls through a trove of stored images that people would probably rarely view otherwise. When consumers mouse over a particular shot, the slide show pauses and enlarges the image. The program gives people the option of e-mailing the photo from there.
The company plans to let members incorporate video, text and news headlines with photos too, creating multimedia "channels."
"I want it to be the preferred way people share digital media with each other," Levchin said, describing his vision for Slide.
For now, Slide works only on Windows computers, but the company is working on versions for the Macintosh.
Posted on August 29, 2005
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