{"id":18485,"date":"2011-07-14T14:41:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T12:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=18485"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:58:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:58:47","slug":"a-sneak-peek-at-googles-photovine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-sneak-peek-at-googles-photovine\/","title":{"rendered":"A sneak peek at Google&#8217;s Photovine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the heels of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/google-plus.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\">Google+<\/a><\/strong>, another site supported by the <a href=\"http:\/\/google.en.softonic.com\/web-apps\">search engine<\/a> giant is up and running, although it&#8217;s also currently in invite-only mode.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/photovine.com\">Photovine<\/a><\/strong> is a <strong>new image sharing service<\/strong> created by Slide which, according to the site&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/photovine.com\/privacy\">Privacy Notice<\/a>, is part of Google Inc. The concept seems relatively simple &#8211; create an account, download the app (apparently for both <strong>iPhone and Android smartphones<\/strong>, if the image on the service&#8217;s initial web page is any indicator) and share with friends and family. As people connected with you upload their own photos, the images can be linked based on common user-created captions, until you&#8217;ve gone from a single picture &#8220;seedling&#8221; to a full-grown photo &#8220;vine&#8221; that&#8217;s growth is virtually limitless.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-MPIZKPhfDY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re wondering whether Google plans to connect this new service to <strong>Google+<\/strong>, it&#8217;s unclear so far. With the obvious and enthusiastic interest in <a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/how-to-get-a-google-invite\">garnering a Google+ invite<\/a> from the general public though, it&#8217;ll be interesting to see how the two new web apps might end up being connected. For the time being, Photovine is taking requests from interested web users on its <a href=\"http:\/\/photovine.com\">main page<\/a> and promising to roll out invites later this month on a first-come first-served basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right on the heels of Google+, another site supported by the search engine giant is up and running, although it&#8217;s also currently in invite-only mode. Photovine is a new image sharing service created by Slide which, according to the site&#8217;s Privacy Notice, is part of Google Inc. The concept seems relatively simple &#8211; create an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/a-sneak-peek-at-googles-photovine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A sneak peek at Google&#8217;s Photovine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-18485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334179,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18485\/revisions\/334179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=18485"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=18485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}