Simultaneous sharing communication interface

A method for sharing information over a network, comprising:

• enabling a communication over a plurality of channels between a user of a computing device and another user of another computing device;
• providing a sharing strip for display on the computing device and another sharing strip for display on the other computing device, wherein multimedia information placed on either sharing strip is simultaneously displayed on each computing device;
• retrieving the multimedia information from a plurality of sources with at least one of the user's computing device and the other user's computing device;
• enabling the user and the other user to annotate the retrieved multimedia information;
• inserting at least a portion of the multimedia information into a sequence of multimedia information that is placed on one of the sharing strips displayed on the computing devices, wherein the one of the sharing strips displays at least a portion of a thumbnail associated with the inserted multimedia information among a plurality of other thumbnails;
• simultaneously sharing, independent of the concurrent communication between the user and the other user, the multimedia information between the user and the other user over the network, wherein the shared multimedia information is displayed on each sharing strip on each computing device and wherein the multimedia information is configured to be concurrently editable by each of the users,
• wherein retrieving the multimedia information from the plurality of sources further comprises,
• filtering the multimedia information based on at least one of a size or a timestamp of the multimedia information;
• and
• ordering the multimedia information based on the timestamp of the multimedia information.

A computer system having a graphical user interface including a display, a user interface selection device, and a processor operable to perform actions comprising:

• displaying a window on the display, the window providing:
• a sharing strip for sharing multimedia information, wherein the multimedia information placed on the sharing strip is simultaneously displayed on another sharing strip provided by another window;
• and
• a conversation window for communicating between a plurality of users;
• displaying in the window, a plurality of first thumbnails from a first source and at least one second thumbnail from a second source;
• receiving a selected one of the first or second thumbnails at the sharing strip, wherein the selected thumbnail is associated with multimedia information;
• and
• simultaneously sharing through the sharing strip and the other sharing strip, independent of a concurrent communication between users within the conversation window, the selected thumbnail over the network to the users and the multimedia information are configured to be concurrently editable by each of the users,
• wherein simultaneously sharing further comprises:
• sending a plurality of multimedia information in a send order based on an order of different selected thumbnails in the sharing strip, wherein each of the plurality of the multimedia information is associated with a different selected thumbnail in the sharing strip.