12. An article comprising a storage medium containing instructions that when executed enable a system to: generate a montage comprising a presentation surface with multiple presentation tiles each having a tile object for a corresponding content file, each tile object generated by selectively extracting a portion of content from the corresponding content file based on a type definition comprising a set of rules concerning which information to extract from the corresponding content file based upon space within a defined region of the presentation tile and by formatting the extracted content portion within the defined region of a presentation tile, the montage arranged for use with a gesture interface; send the montage and content files to a network service; edit a tile object of the montage; receive references to the montage and each content file; and associate a reference for a content file with a corresponding tile object.
13. The article of claim 12 , further comprising instructions that when executed enable the system to edit at least one of text, a label or a caption associated with the tile object.