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 needs help. Get involved to create great communities. Use alerts, reports and your personal dashboard to stay in touch, informed and involved. Vine is a location-aware social networking application focused on being a robust means of local communication that’ll work even in times of emergency.
Microsoft Vine is currently a beta service, which means Microsoft needs your feedback and ideas to make it great. Watch the videos to learn more, then, provide your e-mail address to request an invitation.
From the Vine dashboard you can know what’s happening. Information associated with the places you have chosen will appear on your map, including articles from 20,000 news and public safety sources. Information from people you care about, such as alerts and reports, will appear on the dashboard too.
Send and Receive Alerts : Organize people into groups – the sports team you coach, people who live nearby, family far away, special friends, and emergency contacts. Each person defines how they want to receive alerts – through e-mail, a text message, or on their computer. Reach them quickly using alerts.
Post Reports : You decide what you want to share with whom, and then the information is sent directly to their personal dashboard. Check in safe and well to let your family know you are okay, let trusted neighbors know you’re headed out of town, keep people informed of situations that matter, or share general information like the team practice schedule for the week.
Microsoft Vine is appropriate for any small group of people who want to stay in touch, informed and involved — families, neighbors, sports teams, school committees, volunteer groups or faith-based groups.
Want to Participate? : Microsoft Vine aims to create an inclusive network so that ultimately anyone can participate, through a social networking application such as Twitter or Facebook or using e-mail, any computer connected to the Internet, or a mobile phone, kitchen phone or a special needs device. Microsoft want people to participate in the way that feels most natural to them and will extend the tools that exist today.
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