Photovine is ready for public use; Easily the most ambitious photo sharing Google yet

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Google's team has been busy slide. In the past few months, they have a wide range of social applications that are meant to meet different needs. But it is strange that Google didn't do a thing to any of them. This was deliberate. Google gives a group of slides, which operates on its own in Google, room to maneuver and fly under the radar. But with Photovine, they actually touch a little bit. And in vain – the app is pretty slick.

If you've heard of Photovine before, this is either because you are reading that Google has registered a domain, or that they pushed the app in the App Store. So far, however, the application in the closed beta test with a very limited number of users. Not anymore. At the moment the application is open to all registered.

What is Photovine? Photo sharing application for iOS, which puts the emphasis on "grapes". That is, the Photo Center points or ideas that connect you with other users. Yes, it sounds a bit pretentious. And the best way to understand this is to watch the video below. But think of it this way: you take your favorite Cologne. This encourages another user to take a picture of their favorite flavors. And that the invitations for another user to do the same. And so it is more or less based on the topic of photography.

This is an interesting concept, because it encourages users to action. Open the image with your application, you can use a picture from nothing, and for some users, that is complex. What do you take a picture when you take pictures of anything? With Photovine more experience. Or, if you want to photograph anything, you can simply start your own grapes.

According to Google this is a story with photos. Can be a picture tells the story of your "perfect weekend". Who sees that the snapshot and tell their story of the same idea. Essentially the idea is derived from looking up at the stars at night and wonder who is doing the same thing? Point being, there are thousands if not millions, of people around the world, doing what you are doing at the same time. To connect these people Photovine.

If you've heard about the app Piictu, it looks like. But unlike many Google products, Photovine is very well designed. In fact, it is one of the more slick-looking iOS photo applications out there right now — again, just to be clear, technically Google did.

Naturally all of this ensures that this app will find success. But it's a compelling idea with a good user interface. It reminds me a bit Treeshouse, former project with the support of Y Combinator — which should not be surprising at all considering that the founder of the launch of Chrys Bader, now works for Google/slide on this project.

And Yes, Photovine includes the ability to share images of Facebook or Twitter. However, the actual social graph of their own.

You can find Photovine in the App Store here.

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