Microsoft Officially Working On A Social Network

In July, reports emerged of a bare-bones version of Microsoft's Tulalip social network mistakenly hosted on Socl.com. This service allowed logging in via Facebook and Twitter. However, within a week, Microsoft hurriedly deleted the site and posted a retraction. Now, after a gap of three months, the guys from The Verge have got a chance to check out MS's project. According to them, the "Tulalip" name has been dropped in favour of Socl (pronounced "social"), which might itself be a temporary name. Nevertheless, it is certainly an improvement. The interface looks very similar to that of Facebook, with elements from Google+ thrown into the mix.

This news have been around the corner for a while. But nothing came out!

I really dont want another Social network. People are more than satisfied with Facebook(most except geeks who are sick of sp@ms and useless Farmville updates) :wink:

Oh well......

Nothing's gonna change. It will come & go. People would not even know if it existed. It will meet the same end as that of over-hyped Google+.

Result will be same as Google+. Nobody would leave facebook.

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d6bmg said:
Result will be same as Google+. Nobody would leave facebook.

That's a valid reason enough.

PS : There are already a dozen Social Networking sites already floating in the internet. Some target specific audiances like LinkedIn and some are similar to facebook (friendship sites), hi5 for example.

Mark and his Facebook's team knows better than any other company how to make social world. MySpace, Google+, Orkut, LinkedIn, Twitter and Hi5 -- all had to bow down in-front of Facebook.

Microsoft can create a better Social Network than G+, but it cannot surpass Facebook.

Not matters , they are addicted to facebook.

No more, please, no more.

^^ You don't use it, that's all.

Why care for a new site when you don't care for it? (works for me)

I'm psyched by all these social networking sites.

Really? Do we need them?

Tech&ME said:
PS : There are already a dozen Social Networking sites already floating in the internet. Some target specific audiances like LinkedIn and some are similar to facebook (friendship sites), hi5 for example.

LinkedIn is actually quite popular among the buisness people so I wont consider it as #Fail
I really dont know even 50 of my real world friends who are on Facebook but are on Google+ :/

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it can be more better than other social networking sites, you can't measure its beauty, how much its going to impact.

Seriously instead of creating new crap why can't one of the companies support Diaspora?

If I am not mistaken, Microsoft DID start a social network a while ago. It was named, "Live Planet". I just made a single post there, which was like, "Live Planet.. Umm.. Luks cool".

Never returned since then!