According to the Mississippi-based software company, SlimCleaner combines a powerful PC cleaning engine with a community of users who provide real-time feedback to improve computer performance.
Chris Cope, the firm's CEO, said that the evolution of the utility turns the world of PC maintenance upside down, as the company has thrown out the old idea of static, centralised PC optimisation and given users an interactive community where they can make and receive recommendations in real-time, customised to their own individual PC.
At its core, SlimCleaner is billed as providing all the essential tools for cleaning and optimising a PC, scanning and offering information that consumers can use to improve their machine’s speed and performance, based on the collective intelligence of what Cope calls the software's global community on social networks and web-based rating systems.
In use on social networks like Facebook, Cope says that SlimCleaner allows users to create a personalised wall where they can write assessments about various items on their PC, earn badges, and build out a trust network that communicates with other SlimCleaner users.
“We use social networking and community-sourced feedback to tell people what’s on their machine, and what they can do about it. It’s like having an army of tech-savvy geeks helping you maintain your computer”, he explained.
Infosecurity notes that SlimCleaner first launched as a public beta at the Black Hat Conference in July of 2010, since when it claims to have more than 100,000 users worldwide that help to refine the product’s community-powered features.