Microsoft has silently launched its
social network, So.cl, which had been in development for almost a year.
The new social networking website is said to help students connect with
each other.
“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," says Microsoft on So.cl's FAQ page.
Pronounced as “Social”, the social network, Microsoft, says is not pitted against Facebook
or Twitter. Instead, it is an addition layer to the existing social
networking concept – and accepts log in via Facebook or Windows Live
account.
However, So.cl is quite similar to other
social media sites, as it allows users to share pages of interest,
assemble montages of media, discuss on any topic. By default, all
searches in So.cl are public. But users can mark their content as
“private” and can delete as well. The layout looks somehow similar to
Google+, also inspired from Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.
