Microsoft’s Social Networking Site So.cl Now Open to All Users - nashtheken

Then.cl, an experimental scientific research from Microsoft that combines social networking and search to promote encyclopedism, is now accepting all users fascinated in joining the internet site.

The social networking site, pronounced "social," is however not positioned to supervene upon existing full-featured search and social networking tools, and uses a borderline set of features, Microsoft said on the Sol.150 internet site.

The company expects students will continue to use up-to-the-minute social networks such as Facebook, Chirrup, and LinkedIn and search tools so much as Bing and Google.

So.cl helps users discover and share web pages of interest atomic number 3 students do when they ferment together, Microsoft said.

Besides providing sharing of media including time period joint of videos through "video parties", So.cl also helps users make "rich posts," by assembling montages of visual vane content.

Launched as a partnership betwixt the FUSE Labs in Microsoft Research and designated schools, including University of Washington, Syracuse University, and NY University, Indeed.cl is placid positioned as a research plan that aims to ascertain more about cultural hunting.

FUSE Labs' So.cl design is shifting away from an invite-only model to accept all users interested in joining the site, said a Microsoft spokeswoman on Monday in an netmail. "So.cl is an experimental research project focused on the future of societal experiences and learning, particularly among junior people," she added.

Thus.cl uses Bing for search information via the public API (application programming interface), just is not a Bing intersection, Microsoft said in a FAQ on the So.cl site.

It uses Facebook authentication, but by nonremittal does not stake some content from So.cl into the drug user's Facebook stream, Microsoft said. Unless marked as secluded, seek results, and any other data posted to So.cl can embody viewed by all other So.cl users. Data that was publicly posted on So.cl will be broadly available for use by else entities and individuals. (See also "Bing's Social Search: A Active Go.").

Public information enables new types of research and experiment, a primary end for So.150, Microsoft said.

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