Hey, welcome to the blog! This is the new place to find out what’s happening at Slife Labs. SL is a new company that we put together to help us improve Slife, work together with the community and also develop new fun and exciting products such as Slifeshare.

You are probably wondering what happened to Onlife? Well, Slife IS the new name for Onlife. We decided to change the name because there was a small issue related to the usage of “Onlife” and we thought that “Slife” actually reflects pretty well the things we are doing and the direction we want to go with the company. Together with the name change, we are also taking Slife out of beta today. As mentioned throughout the whole beta cycle, the goal has always been to make Slife more stable and I think it’s really solid right now. So the focus has not been on adding more and more features for the 1.0 release. In fact, there are less features available in this release than in previous ones. Give it a try, as per usual, Slife is free. And don’t forget to send us your feedback.

What about Slifeshare? Slifeshare is a whole new web product we are rolling out, that brings a new layer of community to Slife. We are really excited about it and think people will have fun with it. The idea is that you can have a space, a web page, where you can share with your friends of whoever else you want, stuff that you do online and in your computer. And this is something that can happen in real-time or not. For instance, you can enable your friends to see which web sites you are browsing right now, or which albums you are listening to. You can also let people see only your top sites, feeds and albums this month, year, day, etc. All you need to do is create an account at Slifeshare and configure your Slife client to connect to your Slifeshare account. That’s it. If you want to see what a Slifeshare looks like, you can check mine.

At Slifeshare, you can get an account for free, but we are also offering a Premium account with some additional features for $24 a year. We think it’s a good deal – $2 a month. It’s a win-win situation, you get more features and also contribute to our development efforts. This model where basic services are free and you pay for premium ones is called “freemium“. We think it can work pretty well and are going to give it a shot. As you will see, we don’t sell any ads on Slifeshare or Slife right now. If we ever do, we will probably go with a “public radio” approach – “this …. supported by ….” instead of Google AdWords. I suspect Google AdWords won’t work on Slifeshare pages at all and will amount to nothing but visual mess.

Expect a few glitches with Slifeshare in the beginning, since it’s a new web service and we haven’t experienced a very heavy load on it yet. Slife should be pretty stable, but let us know if you run into any problems as well. Over the next several weeks, we will be improving things behind the scenes and releasing a few more surprises along the way to keep things interesting!