Read more.Social network dressed up as an experimental research project, or vice versa?
Read more.Social network dressed up as an experimental research project, or vice versa?
Semi interesting project this one, but I am still not really sure what it's there for.
It's not really a social network - which is the right move as we really don't need someone else trying to get into that market, and Google's Monumental failure with Google+, or Apples failure with Ping clearly show. Microsoft have their own (largely failed) attempt out already with Live.
I like the concept and it's something I might use (I will certainly take a look) - I personally dislike facebook immensley these days, it really went downhill from a UX perspective when Apps invaded, and the recent switch to "timeline" just makes it downright difficult to use. So the idea of having a consolidation layer sitting above facebook where I can still talk to/see updates from my facebook friends, but without all the pain that facebook itself brings..that appeals. Being able to link that up to linked.in etc too is a nice plus point for me. Hmm actually that sounds rather like the "people" app on my WP7 - which is one of it's best features, and also appears as a Metro App in win 8...
Remains to be seen if that's what it really is or if I have mis understood, but Microsoft Research do tend to stick to sensible, interesting projects - I can't see them being daft enough to try and create another social network so it's gotta be different!
edit: Ignore what I said above - it stil requires you to add friends/people rather than just your account and using data from it So I am struggling to see the point atm..if anyone figure it out let me know!
Last edited by Spud1; 23-05-2012 at 08:46 PM.
Ditto as Spud1
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