Another social…what? Microsoft’s new beta project ‘Microsoft Vine’ is a cross between AOL’s AIM,
Mapquest, Twitter, Facebook and a little bit of Google Voice all in one client. The social Web application which is being called ‘Twitter+Facebook on steroids’ is more than your average micro-blogging application, but a messaging system which is what we’ll call a “community connection” which provides notification and alerts, articles from 20,000 news and public safety sources, a map of the Vine user’s community and the status of their contacts