vendredi 10 octobre 2014
Microsoft Research has a new app called Xim that offers a slick solution. It’s a collaborative viewing app: just select the photos you want to share and invite people to check them out. Xim fires off a text message or email with a link to the slideshow. The best part? No one else needs to have the app installed to participate.
xim is largely web-based, so the link will open up in your pals’ mobile or desktop browsers. You and your viewers can flick through photos together and even chat right within Xim. Microsoft’s team also built Xim with privacy in mind. Since it’s designed to work a lot like physically sharing your phone, Xims disappear after a set amount of time. When the show’s over, the photos disappear from the cloud.
The Xim app is available for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, and it’s free. And while it’s capable of sharing photos without leaving any uploads permanently floating around in the cloud, you can also tap into photos that you’ve got stored on OneDrive, Dropbox, Facebook, and Instagram.
It’s a slick little app, and a fun, semi-secure way (at least as secure as Snapchat) to share photos with people. And it’s a whole lot smarter than handing over your phone to someone you barely know at a party just so you can show off your wicked camera skills.
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