Microsoft to Launch its own Social Networking Site

[Tech&ME]

Microsoft may be gearing up to jump into the lucrative social networking fray by launching a social networking site, according to a report. If this is really true, then it will be interesting to see how the three-way dance between the giants Microsoft, Google, and Facebook ends up.

Microsoft has reportedly bought a site Socl.com, and it is not just the name that hints at it being a "social" networking site in the making. A few days ago, Socl.com hosted a teaser page for a service called Tulalip, which is the name of one of the Native American tribes based near Microsoft's Redmond office. This service advertised itself in the teaser as a service that lets users "...Find what you need and Share what you know easier than ever". There was a link saying "See how it works", and there were options to connect via Facebook and Twitter.

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[Skud]

Guess, it will run on IE9 and the yet to be released IE10 only.

On a serious note, do we really need another social networking site???

 

[sujoyp]

yaah I am sure we do need one more social networking site...just read that facebook and tweeter took 2 years for 20million registers but google+ did that in 2 weeks...

That means we still have large apetite for social netwrking sites

 

[Tech&ME]

Well lets see skud how it sums up!! Microsoft is next then comes Apple with its own.... and so goes the list.

BTW , infosys also lauched their own SN site... right ?

 

[Whistler81]

yaah I am sure we do need one more social networking site...just read that facebook and tweeter took 2 years for 20million registers but google+ did that in 2 weeks...

That means we still have large apetite for social netwrking sites

this is highly miss leading, Google and Microsoft already have a huge number of social networking users which was created and collected by Facebook. It is from Facebook that users are migrating to newer sites.

 

[abhijangda]

I think Microsoft will again use its Windows dominance, for making this site popular, as they did with Internet Explorer.

 

[sujoyp]

yaah bro..people get bored and jump to newer ship...same story with orkut and once apon a time hotmail.com

 

[sygeek]

It's not exactly a social networking site, or at least it won't be releasing soon.

*timenerdworld.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/586tulalip.jpg

 

[thetechfreak]

Oh ! Not another Social Networking Site

yaah I am sure we do need one more social networking site...just read that facebook and tweeter took 2 years for 20million registers but google+ did that in 2 weeks...

Its because most of geeks registerd so that they can post in their blogs/website first hand info and experience of Google+ with screenshots

 

[xtremevicky]

Will it be called Facetter + ?

 

[sujoyp]

Oh ! Not another Social Networking Site

Its because most of geeks registerd so that they can post in their blogs/website first hand info and experience of Google+ with screenshots

20 millions is a big userbase to justify what u said

The most common reason maybe
-bored of blue facebook
-looking for innovation with google
-connected to gmail and google services
-looking for better Social networking games
-Privacy issue with others and looking for safe heaven

 

[Skud]

Change for the sake of it.

 

[Prime_Coder]

@Sujoyp

20 millions is a big userbase to justify

Its not amazing thing when more than 20million+ users aklready have their GMail accounts.
Just predict how much the global user base GMail has... & ohh.. some of my friends have 2 or 3 Gmail accounts! They are already using G+ with only one account connected!

IMHO, switching from FB or G+ will now depend mostly on features like interface, ease of use & of course the number of friends who are using that service!

 

[sujoyp]

^^^ I 100% agree to ur last point...number of friends using it..

I would have never joined facebook but all my friends jumped from orkut to facebook soo i have to use facebook...now if they go Google+ then I have too ...after all social networking is useless without friends

 

[Skud]

Same thing happened with me.

 

[Zangetsu]

SNS is boring now...

 

[Tech&ME]

+1 , for :

As Skud said for a change everyone jumped into G+

But I still think their is room for more innovation and a New Social Site.

 

[sygeek]

IMHO, switching from FB or G+ will now depend mostly on features like interface, ease of use & of course the number of friends who are using that service!

I have to agree here. At this point, what matters to Google+ is how it is presented to it's users (with it's interface, features and uniqueness) and if they really think it's worth from a switch from facebook/twitter. Once it gets enough user-base, it's never about how many features it has, it always goes as how many friends of yours does it have. We won't really have a choice then. And that's the most crucial point of any web-based service.

 

[KDroid]

Another SNS...

 

[Vyom]

Bring it on.. Microsoft... Lets give FB another punch.. :
Enough of FB's monopoly now...