Photo and
video sharing has become a phenomenon following the success of apps such as
Instagram and more recently Snapchat,
the platform that lets users send 10-second messages that disappear after they’ve
been viewed, and which recently declined a buy-out offer from Facebook worth
USD 3 billion. Now a new app could join them ; PeekInToo offers a real-time, virtual
glimpse into an anonymous person’s life for just 12 seconds.
PeekInToo
is offering a completely new way to perceive and virtually witness anything
that is happening around the world, almost in real-time and upon request. Now,
you are able to request and receive real-time Peeks - 12 seconds videos from
anyplace in the world, anonymously. PeekInToo can do all that by just using
your favorite mobile device without having to find or follow any friends in the
area of interest. Imagine thousands of Peekers around the world willing to
share real-time Peeks from your area of interest. Imagine also being able to
request such Peeks whenever you want from places you intend to visit soon or
that you would like to travel to in the near future or even instantly gather
valuable live content from breaking news incidents. If video from a location of
interest isn’t currently available, users can also use the PeekShout function
in order to request a feed. Viewers can also rate others’ video. The app is
free to download from the App Store, and an Android version is on its way. The
video below offers more information about the app:
Humans find other people’s lives endlessly fascinating, and PeekInToo is a global social network that lets users be nosy for a short amount of time. However, to get back to Snapchat, look at what happened with that popular application. Snapchat has announced earlier in January, that it will release an updated version of its photo-sharing app, after a cyber attack exposed the usernames and phone numbers of 4.6 million users. The new version of the app will allow Snapchatters to opt out of appearing in 'Find Friends' after they have verified their phone number. Find Friends, which allows users to upload their address book contacts to help find friends who are also using the service, is the feature that was exploited by the hackers.
Noteworthy,
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg praised Snapchat for creating a new niche for
social media communication, calling it a "super interesting privacy
phenomenon." Zuckerberg also offered a historical perspective, noting that
instant messaging offered a way to communicate between groups and blogs
provided a way to share publicly. However, before Facebook, there was nothing
in between. [1]
And of
course, there is the mobile service called Vine.
The app that has been heralded as the “Instagram for Video,” allows users to
create and share short video loops. And as mentionned Instagram. And of course the "share your
life, voluntarily" pioneers, Facebook
and Twitter. What sets however, PeekInToo
apart from video and photo sharing apps such as Snapchat, Confide and Blinklink, is that this exchange is between
you and a complete stranger, and therefore involves an element of risk and
luck. Founder Yiannis Verginadis believes that "in the following years we
are going to experience a burst of anonymous social networks." Which,
judging from the appearance of anonymous photo app Rando last year, is a claim with merit. [2]
Some more
info :
Rando is an experimental photo exchange platform for people who like
photography. A rando is an image that is taken by you and sent anonymously to
somebody completely random. A rando must be sent for one to be received. It's
gifting rather than sharing. You will never know who received the rando, they
will never know who sent it. You will know the location of where it landed, the
receiver will know where in the world it was taken.
Taking cues from the self-destructive nature of Snapchat's picture
messaging system comes Confide, a text-based messenger app that deletes text
messages after they've been read and features an innovative scrolling system
that prevents screenshots being taken. Arising from a need to occasionally
remove the permanence of e-mails or texts, Confide offers people the chance to
communicate via text without worrying that their messages will stick around indefinitely
– think of it as a more professionally useful version of Snapchat.
to be seen, after all, is to exist.
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