Microsoft Vine
“The Microsoft Vine beta connects you to the people and places you care about most, when it matters. Stay in touch with family and friends, be informed when someone you care about needs help. Get involved to create great neighborhoods, communities or causes. You select the people and places you care about most. Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved.”
“Use the dashboard to stay informed about what’s happening with the places and people you care about. Information associated with the places you have chosen will appear on your map, including articles culled from 20,000 local and national news sources as well as public safety announcements from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Information associated with the people you care about who are in your Vine network will appear on the dashboard too. You will know when they send you an alert, post a report or update their Facebook status information.”
I watched the demo and somehow Microsoft managed to tell me what this is and what it does without actually telling me what this is and what it does…
Any ideas?
I’m confused.
Oh, and doesn’t that name remind you of something..?
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Not sure that the “Beta” option is appropriate when it comes to Microsoft. Other developers might have had enough audience sympathy to get away with it — when Microsoft does it, it somehow seems like a cynical marketing label that says, “we’re trying too hard to be hip.”
Like you, I’m not sure what it’s for — seems to be a mashup of maps.live.com, the Department of Homeland Security and an “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” service.
I am at a loss, as it stands it seems to involve interfacing with a computer, which arguably is very difficult during a disaster, especially when your electricity is down and your house is on fire…
Bad name pick as there’s already an app called Vine by Nokia…
I have a man on the inside of Microsoft, he’s going to tell me what on planet Satan this thing is, I shall report back.
they’ve nicked the viNe and they’ve attempted to slap some kind of use case / value proposition onto it. (something that nokia were often too vain to bother with, which is partly why there’s currently a blimp hovering over nokia house with FAIL written on the side and the sky black with vultures).
unfortunately for microsoft, the use case / value proposition is risible. what a bag of arse. the best bit is down the bottom, in the small print: “In case of an emergency, dial 911″…
All I can say is this better not have come from the marketing department.
First Nike, now viNe, I wanna start charging.
Clemens, indeed my friend, I am very aware: http://www.rubbishcorp.com/widget-mark-ii/