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SMS with a dash of video, that’s the Peeps app for you

Posted on January 9, 2015 by

People just don`t stop developing messaging apps, do they? Only goes to show the kind of potential this particular kind of business has.

Joining the flock now is Peeps. Basically an iOS app, also free, Peeps allows you to take 10 seconds “video selfies” & then of course, transmit the same to anyone you please. No be-friending, no adding new contacts, zilch. Your mobile contacts will get the message even if they don’t have Peeps downloaded on their mobile devices. Shoot & scoot, eh?

Check out this video to understand how it works:

As the developers of this new app have claimed: Peeps has all the attributes of an SMS with a personal touch (the video). Since the videos are for keeps, unless the receipent decides to delete it, you can use this new app for sending out a video narrative – a story.

Developed by Peeps Media Ltd, the new app came into the market mid Dec-2014.

Click here to download the Peeps app on your iOS device.

Image Credit: Peeps
Video Credit: YouTube/Peeps

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Microsoft’s Skype Qik – new entrant in the messaging app space

Posted on October 15, 2014 by

The old Qik died some months ago, welcome to its re-birth. Microsoft has just released messaging app, Skype Qik, in a move to garner whatever little space is left in the increasingly crowded messaging space.

It was created from the technology Skype Technologies acquired through the purchase of Qik in 2011. The ne service allows users to exchange video messages between individuals or within a group. The earlier Qik app offered a mobile-based live video-sharing Website & 2-way video conferencing that allowed users to stream live video from their cell phones to the internet.

new video messaging appSo does Snapchat need worry about Skype Qik? Online reports suggest that this is still a “watered down” version of the former, though there are a couple of features in Microsoft’s latest baby that may give it a slight edge. One of them is the ability to send pre-recorded videos. Now, that’s something that many messaging app lack. The other plus point to Skype Qik is the neat manner in which it organizes the Contacts.

Setting up Skype Qik is easy. You need to key in your mobile number so it can pull from your contacts. To record a video clip, you just tap the neon pink button once to start & again to stop, & then send it to your friends. You may choose to do this manually, to a single friend or a group, or use your Contacts page for mass forwards. Not only can users create groups easily from the contacts on their phones, & send messages to them privately.

Another feature that could propel this new messaging app up the ladder of popularity is the fact that it allows you to keep your chats in shape by deleting messages whenever you want – they’ll be removed from everyone else’s phone too. Once a message is 2 weeks old, it disappears.

Skype Qik has the ability to record 42 seconds videos or if you are not in the mood, even a 5 sec one. These Qik Fliks has been described by Skype as “GIFs you record yourself”. Like GIFs, stickers & memes, the idea is that you’ll store these in order to send them quickly, whenever required.

You may click here to download Skype Qik on your Android device.

You may click here to download Skype Qik on your Windows device.

You may click here to download Skype Qik on your iOS device.

 

Image Credit: Skype Qik

 

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