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Monday, December 26, 2011

So.cl - a new competitor to Google Plus

So.cl ("social") is a research project from Microsoft’s FUSE Labs.
So.cl - a new competitor to Google Plus


 "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." says Microsoft.
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But So.cl is just similar to the Google Plus and Facebook which allows to rich media sharing just like the upload video option from Facebook and Google Plus, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties" Similar to the Hangout option from Google Plus.
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"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 re imagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives" Says Microsoft, indirectly they are targeting to Google Plus, Since they uses Facebook login and their search API's are different from Bing and Microsoft claims it as a different product and not related to Bing.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

New Marketing technique of Microsoft Insult Android, win a free Windows Phone


Microsoft offers a chance to win the windows phone for free, by exchanging the stories of the android owners on twitter about the Google operating system.



They can use the hashtag #droidrage to put their comments about the same. 

"Share your android malware story... and you could win a #windowsphone upgrade." Ben Rudolph from windows phone tweeted. Even Microsoft's retweeted the same. So the real campaign starts.

It is going to entertain the reading but encouraging the users to scold some company big company in public by announcing a freebie ? just for the fun ? Share your comments. Where the marketing leads to???