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April 28th, 2009 at 5:40 pm

Microsoft’s Vine: Emergency Social Networking

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Microsofts Vine: Emergency Social Networking

Microsoft today launched a private beta of its new Vine service, which is designed to allow small groups and organizations to trade vital information. Vine is a downloadable application that allows you to send out Twitter-style alerts, disseminate reports with more complete information, and keep track of your Vine contacts.
That may sound a lot like a social network, but Vine was built solely as a way to organize and disseminate important information among organizations such as sports teams, church groups, and advocacy organizations, or to stay in touch with neighbors, family, and friends during an emergency. Right now, Vine is only available for computers running Windows XP with SP2 or Windows Vista 32- and 64-bit editions. Vine starts at the dashboard, which pops up as a widget-like window on your desktop. You sign in to Vine using your Windows Live ID (Microsoft has not said whether your Messenger contacts would be automatically pulled in to your Vine network).
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