so.cl a new social networking by microscoft

SOCL is a new social networking site started my microscoft just sometime back. And as expected the sign up page by itself follows the smooth and delighting metro UI and that's fun to watch. I couldn't get into it as its not open to public still but get this what microscoft. and even the site takes it from its name social as so.cl or socl we call. So.cl is an experiment in open search. That means your searches on So.cl are viewable by other So.cl users and will also be available to third parties.

Elsewhere, the site describes itself as

“an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.”

Use cases Redmond has dreamed up include:

• So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together.
• So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content.
• To encourage interaction and collaboration, So.cl provides rich media sharing, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties."

Another part of the screed FAQ on the site says:

We expect students to continue using products such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other existing social networks, as well as Bing, Google and other search tools. We hope to encourage students to reimagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives.

And the better part is that we are allowed to sign in with a facebook account or a windows live account.

now like how google+ goes with android i would say that so.cl will be may be integrated with the next iteration of the windows phone or with upcoming updates is my intuition. 

The signup process also informs would-be users that:

So.cl does not automatically post your searches, comments, or likes to your Facebook stream unless you choose this option. Also, we don’t contact your Facebook friends unless you invite them.  

Bing seems to be the beating heart of so.cl, whose main feature seems to be socialising searches made with Redmond’s indexatron. As the FAQ explains:

“By default, searches in So.cl are shared publicly. As students work together, they often search for the same items, and discover new shared interests by sharing links. We see this trend today on many social networks, such as Twitter, where shared links spread virally and amplify popular content. So.cl experiments with this concept by automatically sharing links as you search. The So.cl search experience is powered by Bing, and we use the public Bing API’s to display search result data.”

this so.cl is a complete merto UI and really amazing. i couldn't get more from the video on the site. but its sure gonna be exciting and better than google+. if anyone has an account activated already do share what you feel about it. there is an option to follow the twitter page of the lab that's developing it for instant updates.
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