Great
news Social Media fans and Journalists! There is now a challenger to Snapchat that makes self-exploding
photographs and its coming from the most anti-social of sources: Microsoft.
Microsoft recently made the Google Android
App Microsoft
Xim that allows you to send self-destructing photos just like Snapchat as noted in the article “Microsoft
has a new App that shares self-destructing photos without a social network”,
published OCT. 8, 2014 - 8:11 AM PDT by Kif Leswing, Gigaom and “Microsoft
Xim turns iOS, Android, and Windows phones into a multi-screen slideshow”,
published October 8, 2014 10:00 am By Tom Warren, The Verge.
The
Microsoft
Xim App is the result of research being done by Microsoft Fuse Labs as
noted in their Press
Release on the Microsoft Xim App, suggesting that this is really just a Guinea
Pig Run of their latest toy and not necessarily a solid product from Microsoft.
Still,
it’s worth taking note of for one simple reason; it does the same thing as Snapchat WITHOUT the baggage of having to
join a Mobile Social Network only for your nude doppelgangers to end up on a
Website after someone decided to take a screenshot as noted in my blog article
entitled “Snapchat
Leaked Facebook page shut down but Snapchat Leaked website still live -
Snapchat's Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol is really Much Ado About Nothing”.
It's
also not as sophisticated as Snapchat,
which also has self-destructing Videos and Instant Messaging with a Video
Calling feature as noted in my blog article
entitled “Snapchat
introduces Video Calling and Instant Messaging - You have 10 seconds before
this Video Call or IM explodes as Snapchat gears up for WhatsApp VoIP Calling”,
again all of which are perks of joining their Social Network.
Instead,
once you decided that being a Guinea Pig isn't all bad and install the Microsoft
Xim App, it basically taps into the following sources of nude pictures or
family photos, whatever you're into on your smartphone, Tablet, Apple Mac,
Apple Mac Book Pro or Laptop or Desktop computer:
1. Camera
roll of photos
3. Dropbox
4. Facebook
5. Instagram
Once
you hit the fifty (50) photos maximum, a Xim is created, basically a html link
that allows for quick sharing of that slideshow of photos, somewhat like a
Picasa slideshow as described in my blog article
entitled “How
to embed Picasa Photos, Albums and slideshows for Advertising on your Website
or Blog” but with self-destruct.
Unlike
Snapchat, the recipient doesn’t
necessarily have to have the Microsoft
Xim App installed; they can receive your Microsoft
Xim Link ('cause that’s what I’m calling it!) via their email address, or
their US Phone numbers, probably SMS (Short Messaging Service) or Text Message found
in your contact list in your smartphone.
No
need to get Social like Facebook’s
failed Poke App as noted in my blog article
entitled “Facebook
gets Mission Impossible serious with Poke as the Snapchat bringing “Sexting”
back”, which failed mainly because it was trying to get you to share your
doppelganger with your friends on Facebook,
the same Facebook that's privacy-prone.
Microsoft Xim - Browser
compatible Link is Real-Time Anti-Social Self-Destructing Cross-Platform
Picture-Sharing experience
This
Microsoft
Xim Link is basically a Real-Time Anti-Social Self-Destructing
Cross-Platform Picture-Sharing experience, like the subtitle says.
That
Browser window allows your multiple recipients to view a swipe-able, pan-able slideshow
of the photos you sent them simultaneously in the order you want them to be view.
Interestingly, the viewers, though they may not have the Microsoft
Xim App, can actually change or even add photos to the slideshow.
Clearly
Microsoft isn’t aiming to make this App
viral, but merely allows responsible sharing of photos, making Snapchat appear a bit juvenile.
Microsoft
Xim is more of a lollapalooza for Indian music loving 60's hippie adults
swapping baby pictures around the dinner table as noted in “Microsoft’s
Xim photo sharing app means never passing your phone around the table again”,
published October 9, 2014 By Andy Boxall, DigitalTrends.
This
probably explains the Indian Tantric Yoga music being used in the Microsoft
Xim YouTube video below.
This
is the technology equivalent of Shared Dreaming or Shared Conscious Experience,
Inception Style, where the Architect controls the environment within which the
dream takes place and what your dreaming about and the flow of that dream as
explained in my blog
article entitled “Frankfurt
University's Dr Ursula Voss Electric Shocks Lucid Dreaming - How Gamma Waves
lead to Conscious Dreaming Inception in Katy Perry Wide Awake Matrix”.
After
the Shared Dream.....er…..I mean Shared Conscious Experience i.e. simultaneous slideshow
is over, the link self-destructs after an hour as noted in the article “Microsoft
debuts Xim photo-sharing App”, published October 8, 2014 -- 15:22 GMT
(08:22 PDT) By Mary Jo Foley, ZdNet, sadly
causing no harm to your smartphone, Tablet, Apple Mac, Apple Mac Book Pro or
Laptop or Desktop computer. That would have really made it stand out from Snapchat!
But
based on its Real-Time Anti-Social Self-Destructing Cross-Platform
Picture-Sharing experience, it’s already a standout, head and shoulders, above Snapchat!
Note
that I mentioned all those different models of non-Android devices, as the Microsoft
Xim App is Browsers driven and Browser independent, making it a truly a
cross platform family photo sharing experience.
You
can even IM (Instant Message) groups of your recipients in real time while they
all watch your Slideshow simultaneously on their browsers, thus maintaining the
idea that you're all having the same Conscious Shared Slideshow Experience even
though the recipient isn’t physically in the room with you while you run the
slideshow.
Snapchat Competition -
Slingshot backfired as Xim's Conscious Shared Slideshow Experience engaging
Like
I said, Snapchat now officially has
competition that'll succeed, unlike the thus far failed attempts by Facebook, which includes their latest stab
at Snapchat called Slingshot as
reported originally in my blog article
entitled “Facebook's
Creative Labs Division debuts Slingshot – The Paper Man need Friends Nearby +
Firechat + Group Mini-Games = Original Design”
Since
then, people complained that the requirement to send a photo in order to unlock
the photo they were sent via Slingshot was silly, as they may not necessarily have
any fun naked and revealing photos to send back.
So
Facebook removed that requirement and in
so doing, have now basically become yet ANOTHER Snapchat clone as noted in the article “Facebook's
Slingshot is Now Basically Snapchat”, published September 5th 2014 NBC News and “Facebook Slingshots
Itself In The Face By Making Reply-To-Unlock Optional”, published Sep 4,
2014 by Josh Constine, Techcrunch.
Microsoft
Xim instead of just sharing one photo, allows you to share your entire
collection of nudes or family photos, whatever you’re into, making the leaking
of photos as occurred when Apple iCloud got hacked as noted in the article “Apple:
Celeb photo attack was targeted, not widespread breach”, published
September 2, 2014 12:27 PM PDT by Shara Tibken, CNET
News and “iCloud
Data Breach: Hacking And Celebrity Photos”, published 9/02/2014 @ 3:00AM by Dave Lewis, Forbes seem like child's play.
Microsoft
Xim, though an experiment from Microsoft
Fuse Labs, is a Conscious Shared Slideshow Experience worth experiencing as
noted in the article “Microsoft’s
Xim App Offers Temporary Phone Photo Sharing Without Overshare Risk”,
published October 8th 2014 by Darrell Etherington, Techcrunch.
This
Browser-Independent Real-Time Anti-Social Self-Destructing Cross-Platform
Picture-Sharing App is going to be a massive hit with the naked picture of
family picture sharing crowd, whatever floats your boat. Once Microsoft Fuse Labs
updates the Microsoft
Xim App to also share videos and eventually launches the soon-coming Apple iOS version
of the Microsoft
Xim App, they'll be REAL competition to Snapchat.
Check
the link:
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