Information Madness

Google has no shortage of new ideas to give unending value added services; now it has come up with photo sharing app to be used on Smartphones. The app, named Photovine was at last launched now, after few weeks of speculation. Google has released a promotional video on YouTube explaining the photo sharing feature in the social network. The app Photovine is managed by Slide, which was acquired by Google last year at id="mce_marker"82 million.

 

No publicity is given officially from Google sources in its blog or Twitter accounts but it had already got a registered trademark for the name Photovine in June 2011 and the domain name photovine.com is registered by Google Inc.

The concept of Photovine is built around the core objects called vines, which grows constantly in branches with family of photos having similar captions. Users will be able to share the photos already in the Photovine or from other sources like other social networking services. The concept is similar to Twitter search that shows video and photo content attached to search results.

Presently participation in Photovine is only through invitation but users can request for such invitation from the website www.photovine.com.

It is speculated that Google is planning to integrate this new app with the recently initiated social media tool Google+ , but since Google has Picasa photo sharing platform it may not do so.

Moreover, Google is not marketing Photovine as its regular product. You can not see any mention of Google in the publicity material for Photovine.