Ok, now that the Slife 2.0 private beta program is under way, it’s time to talk a little bit about our plans for Slifeshare and Slife for Windows. Both have been in the back burner for some time now and haven’t seen an upgrade in a few months.
For Slifeshare, not so good news. We have decided that we will be discontinuing the service as it is over the next couple of months. We still strongly believe in the concept of sharing media and activities as a way to stay in touch, but we would like to spend 100% of our energy on Slife and the problem of time/activity management right now.
Slifeshare started as an experiment back in February 2007 and got quite a bit of press, mainly because of how controversial it was. A year later, there are many other services similar to Slifeshare, the most notable one being FriendFeed. It is possible that Slifeshare might resurface in the future, but for now we are putting it to rest. We would rather do that than keep it running without the attention it deserves.
Now, Slife for Windows. Since we released the first public beta at the beginning of the year, there hasn’t been any updates. We are still completely behind Slife for Windows, but we had to re-organize ourselves for the big Slife 2.0 push, which we felt was badly needed, and had to keep the Windows version on hold.
We would like to keep the Mac and the Windows versions functionally equivalent. So we will be refreshing Slife for Windows as soon as the dust settles with the upcoming Slife 2.0 release for the Mac.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:24 am
I am a parallels user at work, in order to get to certain applications (outlook for mail and scheduling, project, excel, visio) and am always looking for ways to more seemlesly merge the two worlds that I live in.
I love the mapping of items to activities. I use it to keep track of certain wike pages as belonging to certain projects, vs. purusing google reader. And this works great for the things that I can bring to safari, but not everything can get there, and I find myself having to use Parallels in order to more seamlesly interact with my coworkers.
However, whenever I go into parallels the activities that I do there are opaque as far as slife is concerned, and they just show up as “parallels”.
What I would love to see is the ability for Slife to see what I am doing inside of parallels and bring that out and allow me to create items based upon the context inside of parallels.
If that is not possible, then a workaround, would be for me to run slife in my Parallels machine (which is running winxp btw) and get to that data from my slife instance running in Mac.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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