Google — or more specifically, Google subsidiary Slide — has created a new photo-sharing service called Photovine and released an iPhone app to go along with it. Great news, but there's a catch: Only those lucky enough to have received invitations to Photovine are able to use the app.
The rest of us can download the app and enter our email addresses in hopes of joining the chosen ones.
What will we be able to do if we're able to gain admission to the special Photovine user club? We'll be able to snap and upload photos to the service with short captions. By doing so we'll be starting a "vine" which will grow as other users add photos to fit the theme of our captions. And of course we'll be able to help other vines grow as well.
To see how that might look, check out the demo video which Photovine recently teased us with:
At this point you're either giddy about this new photo-sharing service or scoffing that it resembles existing products like Instagram too much. Either way, let's set aside all those issues and focus on what's ironic about this whole thing: That a product from a Google-subsidary is hitting the iPhone before it is available on devices powered by Google's own Android.
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