Yesterday, Microsoft released the beta version of new software integrated with a new service called Vine.
The software is a desktop client for Windows that lets you send information via email or SMS text messages. The application also meets local news from more than 20 thousand sources plotted on a map.
Like Twitter, the application can write short messages that appear on a map according to their geographical position in which is a member. May be short messages called “alerts” or Longer messages called “reporting.”
Vine is designed to keep family and friends in touch when the traditional methods of communication (telephone, etc. ..) are not available or are ineffective.
Designed and developed considering moments of crisis, as the attacks of 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina, where mobile services are saturated or simply stopped functioning.
This is where this service is intended to be the mainstay of communication to keep people connected and coordinated with a possible evacuation or just to keep a local disaster.
Initially be available in the city of Seattle, USA where the rescue services and first aid and are joining the network and participating in the Beta test period.
Link: Vine Microsoft (Microsoft)
