Microsoft has officially opened the doors of Socl, its own social-networking site. The service seems to be a combination of social networking and a search engine, and can be linked to Facebook. It goes to a test.
The service is by Microsoft not grandly announced, but seems to be immediately available to everyone. Users can log on to the Socl website, whereby it is also possible to log in with a Facebook profile. Then must be waiting for a beta invite.
Once inside, the user gets search suggestions and can be made to existing Facebook friends on Socl. By integrating with Facebook, it seems that Microsoft is not directly competing with the popular social-networking site wants to deal with. Further, the company from Redmond in the faq know that the existing networks do not want to replace it with his own initiative.
Socl seems to be mainly intended as a social search engine. Users get suggestions on various topics on the homepage, where it is possible to see where others have been seeking. It is also possible to search results. Users get others ‘ searches to see in a nieuwsstream, where it is possible to make a comment.
Most of the details of Socl were previously outside, when The Verge short period of time with the social networking site should play. It was also known that Microsoft support calling built in a similar way as Google, with its Plus network, has done.
