This look promising.

[CoolioG]

This is a Microsoft project that I stumbled upon and it looks very promising.

Social Web Experience

The Social Web Experience (SWE) project is looking for new ways to connect your social network experience with your web experience. For our first experiment, we built the Social Web Experience Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The toolbar analyzes Web pages and finds related content from your social networks. Your friends' recent status updates and messages, favorite movies, interests, and other profile information are shown when its related to what you're seeing on the Web.

Social Web Experience Project page


EDIT: And lets not forget,

Fishbowl: the Microsoft Facebook Client

Fishbowl brings Facebook to your desktop. Experience your Facebook content in new ways with a desktop client application that lets you personalize how you read your newsfeed, update status, comment, like, browse and upload photos.

Fishbowl: the Facebook Client (Link

Do you know of any Microsoft projects that look appealing?

 

[Datalyss]

Hmph. Social networks...never understood the need for them.

 

[Tews]

Social networks should die a death of 1000 cuts ...

 

[valtonray]

idk, i like facebook, i live far away from my family and friends i grew up with, facebook allows me to keep in regular contact with them. the simple interface makes it so easy that even my grandparents use it and they are in their 70's.

 

[Datalyss]

Touche'

 

[Adrian]

Social networks should die a death of 1000 cuts ...

Tewsie, thats harsh!
The kids luv them, but I never understood. I guess I'm old fashioned and would rather meet face to face and look you in the eye.

 

[Tews]

Ok... you're right only 750 cuts... :roflmao:

 

[CoolioG]

idk, i like facebook, i live far away from my family and friends i grew up with, facebook allows me to keep in regular contact with them. the simple interface makes it so easy that even my grandparents use it and they are in their 70's.

Completely agree, I lived in a military family that moved every 2 years and Facebook makes it easy to keep in contact with them. But, it appears that the social network project doesn't apply to just Facebook.

 

[valtonray]

idk, i like facebook, i live far away from my family and friends i grew up with, facebook allows me to keep in regular contact with them. the simple interface makes it so easy that even my grandparents use it and they are in their 70's.

Completely agree, I lived in a military family that moved every 2 years and Facebook makes it easy to keep in contact with them. But, it appears that the social network project doesn't apply to just Facebook.

yeah but i pretty much just like facebook, myspace was to much effort with keeping all the profile details updated. but i do see the points some people make against them. it seems a lot of people are just "friend collectors" personally i keep mine limited to the people i know personally.

 

[mxosder16]

Do you know of any Microsoft projects that look appealing?

Microsoft Pivot

 

[derekimo]

Do you know of any Microsoft projects that look appealing?

Microsoft Pivot

That looks interesting.

 

[valtonray]

Do you know of any Microsoft projects that look appealing?

Microsoft Pivot

wow this could really revolutionize search engines and desktop search software for both corporate and home users. i'll need to follow this more closely, it will be interesting watching it mature,

 

[CoolioG]

Yes, I also don't collect random friends on Facebook so I can have more people to play Farmville or Mobsters with. That's just stupid.