“Write on Glass” Virtual Transparency to Share Your LIKES UP from Any Website
Glass is a virtual transparency over the entire web where you can write notes “on top” of any website similar to writing on transparencies.
A new service that installs into your browser can make LIKING and commenting easier. Share via email or social media. Sites that do not have social media share buttons installed can easily connect to Facebook and Twitter. You control who receives every thing you share, so it’s as private or as public as you define.
Glass is great for capturing thoughts so you can return to an idea later, but sharing and collaborating with friends is even better.
You can use the buttons to search and find and invite friends from other services.
Or, if you want to share something, just enter their email address on a slide and they’ll get an invite and notification that they have something on Glass. This service is in beta. It installs in the browser and the beta version currently works with Firefox and Chrome.
It appears that the idea behind “glass” comes from the Stage Glass of an Overhead Projector can perform. The Stage Glass or Glass platen as some may refer to it, is one of the most commonly replaced parts on an Overhead Projector. The image below from schooloutfitters.com is used in a teaching environment. The break-resistant glass withstands heavy use.
Before PowerPoint and well before ScreenFlow, were slides and the overhead projector. The Elmo was a later generation projector. See Overhead projector history. Transparencies are placed on top of the lens for display. The light from the lamp travels through the transparency and into the mirror where it is shone forward onto a screen for display. Transparencies, like glass, can be written on “like glass.” 3M made projectors and sold the supplies of => Transparency Sheets & Film: Overhead Transparency Sheets to Create professional-looking transparencies for your overheard projector presentations with quality transparency sheets. Quickly and easily print crisp black and white images or vibrant color reproductions on a transparency sheet using your home or office printer or standard copier. Overhead transparency sheets are available in many different sizes, ideal to fit any projector, so stock up on affordable transparency film to get the job done.
The idea of writing on glass is not new. There is a whole industry around pens and markers to write on glass.
http://www.thewritingpenstore.com/c-129-pens-to-write-on-glass.aspx
Sharing screens is a transparent way to express your thoughts on a subject that you find interesting on a website. When you give it your comment or “LIKES UP” you project your comment via email or through social media to share with others. You choose whether it is public or private and the reach of your post.
There is an immediacy with Glass because instead of sending a link, you can send your comment “on top” of the web page in the moment, in context with the page, allowing you to share the experience of your reaction and thoughts.
There are a couple easy ways to access Glass with shortcuts.
Currently sharing on Facebook is to the personal profile. Eventually, WriteonGlass.com will add the ability to choose to share on a Facebook page.
Checkout out “Write on Glass” today.
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UPDATE: November 15, 2011
Write on Glass now has Facebook and Twitter connection. You can view links shared by these networks right on Glass (Write on Glass).
Slides can be public or private.
Note: The Glass Icon has a similar look to the refresh button in your toolbar.
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Thanks for the kind write-up on Glass! In addition to sharing Glass slides to your Facebook account—as you mention near the end of the article—you can also share to Twitter.
We’re working hard on many new exciting features that’ll be coming out in the next few weeks and months. If you check out Glass and have any feedback, feel free to leave your thoughts on the Glass slide on this page that I left!