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<ul><li><keyword id="55885" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="hotmail" source="Orion">Hotmail</keyword> co-founder Sabeer Bhatia has launched a new social video messaging platform.</li><li>It’s called ‘<keyword id="2457121" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="showreel" source="Orion">ShowReel</keyword>’ and it helps people create video resumes that can be sent out to job recruiters.</li><li>ShowReel plans on onboarding companies who can directly choose candidates from this platform.</li></ul>Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith created one of the first free web-based email services ‘Hotmail’ back in 1996. It was acquired by Microsoft just a year later and then rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail and Outlook. Fast forward to 2021, Bhatia is now launching ShowReel, a TikTok-like social video messaging platform for people to help find jobs. So how exactly does the app work? ShowReel lets you create video resumes of yourself but in a conversational way. There are preset questions to which you answer, record videos and stitch them together. These questions have been selected as those that are mostly asked in interviews. ShowReel also has a TikTok-like feed where you can browse through and watch videos of other users. You can share these videos with companies you wish to work with and can also add a QR code to your resume that links directly to your ShowReel video. “You, first of all, create a profile of your own. So let’s say you want to market yourself - one way is you send a paper resume to different job sites or to different companies directly. And it gets lost and you may be called for an interview or not. Or you can be more proactive and put a QR code in every one of your paper resumes or send an actual video. You actually send a video and say this is who I am,” Sabeer Bhatia explained in an interview with Business Insider. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="How companies can find candidates on ShowReel" comment="subhead" text="How companies can find candidates on ShowReel">How companies can find candidates on ShowReel</cmsannotation> ShowReel currently only has questions designed by Bhatia for four categories - professional, personal, startup and leadership. The company is in talks with global companies to get them onboard the platform and prepare their own set of questions for job seekers. Bhatia wouldn’t name these companies but we can expect to see them join the platform by the end of this year. “There will be a job section where you will be able to specifically look for jobs and do actual interviews for that job. There will be job-specific questions that are asked for that job. Companies will either post questions on that section directly themselves or they’ll ask us to post them and you just answer those questions and you’ve done your video interview with that company for that job,” Bhatia said. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="How job seekers can stand out with videos" comment="subhead" text="How job seekers can stand out with videos">How job seekers can stand out with videos</cmsannotation> ShowReel wants to act as the first step towards finding a job and wants to offer a unique approach in addition to the process of sharing your resume with companies. It’s also designed to help speed up the interviewing process. Bhatia also expects this to help job seekers make their profiles stand out. <div type="image" title="img (19)" msid="87751094" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;In ShowReel, you create conversational videos by answering questions about your name, education, dream job and more.&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> “At the end of the day if the person who’s hiring, if they take a look and they have ten resumes only one of them initially has a QR code with a video, who do you think that person is going to hire,” he said. Video profiles or resumes may actually work really well, and they can even make a person stand out from the crowd. But for a company scanning through the videos first, it may create biases. On this, Bhatia said that the platform blends more with people facing jobs like retail, sales and business development. There are also features being developed for people who may not like to make videos. “We will help them create an avatar where they don’t have to even show their face and they can just do an audio recording for example,” Bhatia said. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Revenue models" comment="subhead" text="Revenue models">Revenue models</cmsannotation> In addition to helping companies speed up the process of interviews, ShowReel is also exploring options of shortlisting candidates for companies. “We’ll charge some money to reduce the number and give you only the hundred best of the thousand best using AI.” This is also expected to turn into a revenue model for ShowReel where it charges companies for posting jobs on the platform. But end-users and job seekers will never be charged for using the app, Bhatia assured. ShowReel is currently in beta, and the app is available to download on Android and iOS. The reason behind holding the app launch in India is because “the problem is most acute over here” and “you solve the problem where it is the worst first.” Bhatia also suggests that this app will give Indians an opportunity to market themselves, something that is quite common in the United States. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/freecharge-announces-neo-banking-platform-to-offer-fixed-deposits-digital-credit-card-and-more/articleshow/87750610.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Freecharge announces neo-banking platform, to offer fixed deposits, digital credit card and more</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/facebook-meta-microsoft-epic-games-and-others-companies-building-the-metaverse/articleshow/87663969.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">It’s not just Zuckerberg ⁠— here’s how gaming, shopping and dating could look like in the metaverse</a>

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There’s a new social media platform and it blends everything that’s trending online right now. It’s got NFTs, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/facebook-meta-microsoft-epic-games-and-others-companies-building-the-metaverse/articleshow/87663969.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">metaverse </a>and digital coins, all in one app. Meet <keyword id="12550695" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="octi" source="Orion">Octi</keyword>, an augmented reality (AR) platform where you make videos with objects and scenes and earn digital ‘Octi’ coins. Octi looks like any other social media platform with its TikTok-like feed and Snapchat’s AR features. In this app, you can earn Octi coins as more people like and engage with your videos. You can play around with objects and create videos in scenes like the Great Hall from Harry Potter. Through these Octi coins users can purchase items from the Octi Shop and also use these coins to actually purchase physical goods like shoes, makeup, clothes and more. New objects and scenes will be added daily to the Octi Shop. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Social media and NFTs" comment="subhead" text="Social media and NFTs">Social media and NFTs</cmsannotation> The app also lets users import their own NFTs to the platform which anyone can use for free. But NFT owners are also rewarded coins as their objects are used and grow in popularity. So the more popular and used your objects are, the more valuable they become. This way users can not only get more exposure for their NFT items but also earn some money. <div type="image" title="Octi_Screenshot" msid="87756037" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Octi lets users import their own NFTs to the platform which anyone can use for free. &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Octi wants to be different from other social media platforms where users are only rewarded with likes. It has<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/james-murdoch-backed-metaverse-app-octi-launches-tuesday-2021-11-16/"> financial backing</a> from James Murdoch's Lupa Systems, LiveNation Entertainment, and Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records. "We are building Octi to be the ultimate creative metaverse, with a business model based on community engagement and meaningful rewards instead of vapid 'likes’," Justin Fuisz, founder and CEO of Octi said in a press release. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Exclusive product releases" comment="subhead" text="Exclusive product releases">Exclusive product releases</cmsannotation> It is also offering a platform where it says the “creator is their own avatar in the metaverse.” The company has also opted for a commerce revenue model instead of the traditional advertising model that popular social media platforms go for. The virtual items available for users are also through partnerships with brands. Through this, Octi aims to help brands create hype for their products and even launch exclusive products digitally. So the platform nicely blends creators, brands with NFTs, the virtual metaverse world and social media. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="An app that perfectly embraces the future of social media" comment="subhead" text="An app that perfectly embraces the future of social media">An app that perfectly embraces the future of social media</cmsannotation> Octi nicely blends creators, brands with NFTs, the virtual metaverse world and social media. It borrows the best features from the most popular social media apps like TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. But it’s way ahead of the game with the option to use AR objects and scenes from popular franchises and brands, import your own NFTs and make some money while doing all that. Octi is currently available only on iOS with no word on when the Android version will launch. The app however isn’t available in India, and it isn’t confirmed where other than the US the app can be downloaded. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/hotmail-cofounder-launches-social-video-messaging-platform-showreel/articleshow/87750865.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Hotmail co-founder wants to help people find jobs through TikTok-like video resume platform ‘ShowReel’</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/facebook-meta-microsoft-epic-games-and-others-companies-building-the-metaverse/articleshow/87663969.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">It’s not just Zuckerberg ⁠— here’s how gaming, shopping and dating could look like in the metaverse</a>

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