Microsoft Social Media Site Accidentally Revealed

You can search unnecessary people you want by unity100 · 2011-07-15 01:28 · Score: 1

easier than ever !! yaaaay.

the marketing types need to start coming up with less shittier slogans if they want to sell this social media shit. it has grown old way too fast.

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Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by rtfa-troll · 2011-07-15 01:53 · Score: 2

Nope; cos this is Microsoft, they don't need to come up with anything at all. All they have to do is that a) Windows update will default to adding it to all your web browsers and b) your operating system gives you a chance to opt out of sharing your data. Plus they can automatically build your social network not only from your webmail, but also from your corporate directories and stuff. Facebook is going to be so screwed. An excellent lesson in "partnering" with Microsoft. I think we'll be calling him Suckerberg from now on.

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Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by Matt.Battey · 2011-07-15 02:05 · Score: 2

Hmm, me thinks it wasn't an accident, but the microbial ridden primate marketing. How best to get news about your new product but to have a supposed mishap to build buzz about it. It's like a sex-tape for software.
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by kelemvor4 · 2011-07-15 02:09 · Score: 1

less shittier
LOL
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by linebackn · 2011-07-15 02:35 · Score: 1

Hmm, me thinks it wasn't an accident, but the microbial ridden primate marketing. How best to get news about your new product but to have a supposed mishap to build buzz about it. It's like a sex-tape for software.

Exactly. Microsoft is very good at this. It is a formula that has worked for them since the early 80s. The next time you see something leak about that new Rick Roll of an OS they plan to call "Windows 8" look closely, it is no accident, it is pure marketing.
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by tripleevenfall · 2011-07-15 02:43 · Score: 1

Microsoft is NOT good at this.
Just like in the mobile OS space, they are years late and several dollars short.
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by stephathome · 2011-07-15 02:46 · Score: 1

That was my thought too. "Leaks" are too easy a way to build hype. They aren't going to let Google play in the social space without them.
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by brim4brim · 2011-07-15 02:53 · Score: 1

Microsoft is NOT good at this.
Just like in the mobile OS space, they are years late and several dollars short.
Late to mobile? Windows Mobile was around for years, almost a decade when they killed it. Microsoft's problem is it copies its competitors and offers little new when their own strategy isn't working. Phone 7 is an iPhone clone that is promising to be friendlier to hackers to get developers on board and using a Nokia deal to try to grab marketshare.
Ms had a greate mobile product with Windows Mobile that had some problems that they never managed to solve to make a pleasant user experience and decided to sack most of the team and base Phone 7 off Zune and go again with the lessons they had learned from Windows Mobile, the same lessons their competitors learned and stole their market share away from them and then people claim Apple did it first. Having worked on Windows Mobile devices, its problems were mostly that they never seemed to recover from that initial phase of rushed development to get something out there and the need to support those mistakes prevented the platform moving forward properly.
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by Gadget_Guy · 2011-07-15 04:52 · Score: 1

Microsoft is very good at this. It is a formula that has worked for them since the early 80s.
Really? I am struggling to think of an example of this from Microsoft. Of the leaks that they have had, I can't think of an instance when they have been caught out doing it deliberately (as opposed to bloggers just speculating this). Microsoft are much more likely to blatantly put out a press release to announce something long before it is ready to be released, in the hope that this will kill off the competition.

The next time you see something leak about that new Rick Roll of an OS they plan to call "Windows 8" look closely, it is no accident, it is pure marketing.
Why would they need to leak information about Windows 8 when they are actively previewing it?
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by tripleevenfall · 2011-07-15 05:32 · Score: 2

Given that you like Windows Mobile, I question if you ever used Windows Mobile...
Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by v1 · 2011-07-15 05:48 · Score: 1

Microsoft is NOT good at this.
But they have so much experience in this area? I mean, identifying a popular new market after it's already been filled in with developed competitors, making a late entrance into a mature market with a rough beta, with the only distinguishing features being things nobody wants or likes, and withdrawing from the market a few yrs later after nonstop negative returns.
Somewhat unrelated but still worth a look, the difference between a successful market entry, and what MS will try: MS Redesigns iPod Package

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Re:You can search unnecessary people you want by brim4brim · 2011-07-15 06:44 · Score: 1

Yes I had a Windows Mobile phone and it was better than most other smart phones before the iPhone/Android market came about. Anyway my main point was that they weren't late to it. They got in it early and then fell behind.

Tulalip? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:29 · Score: 0

I hope that's a code name for a project that's going to get a name that isn't 100% awful once it goes into production.

Re:Tulalip? by MindStalker · 2011-07-15 01:37 · Score: 3, Insightful

Tulalip is also a Native American tribe and a town and bay in Washington north of Seattle.
Re:Tulalip? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:39 · Score: 1

Why didn't they go with chrysanthenom-nom-nom-nom-nom for the name instead?
FTFY
Re:Tulalip? by ElectricTurtle · 2011-07-15 01:43 · Score: 3, Funny

They should have named it Puyallup. Nobody but locals ever pronounces that right.

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Re:Tulalip? by snowgirl · 2011-07-15 01:58 · Score: 1

They should have named it Puyallup. Nobody but locals ever pronounces that right.
But cars cost less there!

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Re:Tulalip? by Duradin · 2011-07-15 03:05 · Score: 1

Chrysanthemum-mum-mum-mum-mum doesn't cash in on the bitcoin craze.
Re:Tulalip? by rodney+dill · 2011-07-15 03:44 · Score: 1

...Or one that could be mischaracterized as tulalimp

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Re:Tulalip? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 04:54 · Score: 0

Tulalip is also a Native American tribe and a town and bay in Washington north of Seattle.
and those are probably the only people who will ever join. Well, them and my mom.
Re:Tulalip? by Opportunist · 2011-07-15 05:07 · Score: 1

It sounds like a condition you'd get by sleeping with someone who had a few too many "friends" from the wrong places.
Which is oddly fitting for a social service page.

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Re:Tulalip? by ThatsNotPudding · 2011-07-15 05:22 · Score: 1

Intel should sue.
Re:Tulalip? by diethelm · 2011-07-15 08:30 · Score: 2

Tula means "penis" in Spanish. Considering the meaning of "lip", the name begs for trouble...

Tulalip? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:31 · Score: 1

Why didn't they go with chrysanthemum-mum-mum-mum-mum for the name instead?

Not the name by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:36 · Score: 2, Funny

Bob2Bob is the name.

Re:Not the name by tripleevenfall · 2011-07-15 02:45 · Score: 1

hahaha... wish I hadn't already commented so I could mod this up.
Will Bob2Bob run on Packard Bell Navigator?

Riddle. by grub · 2011-07-15 01:36 · Score: 1

Q - What's better than roses on your piano?

A - Tulalips on your organ!

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Re:Riddle. by Opportunist · 2011-07-15 05:28 · Score: 1

But don't worry, if you have Tulalips on your organ, we have antibiotics today and can cure it.

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Tulip madness? by calmofthestorm · 2011-07-15 01:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

On unix, everything's a file. On the new internet, everything's a social network.

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Re:Tulip madness? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:41 · Score: 0

Interesting. For Unix, the singularity of 'everything is a file' was Plan 9. I'm struggling to think of a movie bad enough to represent the climax of social networking.
Re:Tulip madness? by Baloroth · 2011-07-15 02:21 · Score: 1

The internet is a social network.

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Re:Tulip madness? by tehcyder · 2011-07-15 03:51 · Score: 1

Interesting. For Unix, the singularity of 'everything is a file' was Plan 9. I'm struggling to think of a movie bad enough to represent the climax of social networking.
Two girls one cup.

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Re:Tulip madness? by tehcyder · 2011-07-15 03:52 · Score: 1

The internet is a social network.
You're wrong, and you're a grotesquely ugly freak.

See? More like an anti-social network.

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Re:Tulip madness? by Opportunist · 2011-07-15 05:35 · Score: 1

Special Friend, of course. For more than just one reason.
a) Title.
b) It's community made.
c) It's completely obscure and for good reason, because it is also boring as hell and tells a story nobody wants to hear.
d) And a-c combined are enough to make it a meme that could surpass All your base.

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Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Legion303 · 2011-07-15 01:40 · Score: 5, Funny

"Tulalip"?

Why, it practically trips right off the tongue. Then plunges to its death.

Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by snowgirl · 2011-07-15 01:54 · Score: 1

"Tulalip"?
Why, it practically trips right off the tongue. Then plunges to its death.
It's a town in the Seattle area. So, it's likely a codename.

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Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:10 · Score: 0

I thought it was the name of a character in "Bugsy Malone"...
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by kehren77 · 2011-07-15 02:14 · Score: 1

It's a town in the Seattle area. So, it's likely a codename.
I'm sure the real name for it will be something cool like Bing or Zune or Kin. Maybe Zing or Bune.
Of course whatever they call it, it will come in Starter, Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:15 · Score: 0

Indeed. Microsoft tends to use city names for code names of projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by poetmatt · 2011-07-15 02:23 · Score: 1

"weweredrunk" was voted against.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:26 · Score: 0

How about "Bung"? It fits, a deep dark hole where nothing good goes in and only crap ever comes out of it.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:39 · Score: 1

They can call it Bing Minus.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 03:08 · Score: 0

It's an Indian Tribe with a casino and a big fireworks park in Quil Ceda. Yay Coast Salish.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 03:19 · Score: 0

Also an anagram of Lilaput?
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 03:39 · Score: 0

Tulalip is the name of a Pacific northwest Indian Nation. Not the best name for a social media site, but hardly difficult or cumbersome to say.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 04:52 · Score: 0

Actually...it's a native american tribe from the area. You are right about it being a codename, though.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by snowgirl · 2011-07-15 05:09 · Score: 1

Actually...it's a native american tribe from the area. You are right about it being a codename, though.
Actually, it's both. (Recognizing that in America "town" can be pretty much meaningless, as the term is so vague.)

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Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Opportunist · 2011-07-15 05:36 · Score: 1

It's a Zune in the making.

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Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Opportunist · 2011-07-15 05:41 · Score: 1

Really? I am all for moving them to Austria. It would certainly lead to more memorable project names.
What makes the sign really creepy is that add-on sign stating "please, not so fast".

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Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Opportunist · 2011-07-15 05:45 · Score: 1

Now add that the word for (sexual) intercourse is the same in German as for (road) traffic, I guess it's easy to see how to fill a good night of stand up comedy with rather tasteless jokes.

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Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 06:18 · Score: 0

I own a Zune you insensitive clod!
We Zune users are not to be trifled with - both of us.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 07:43 · Score: 0

"Tulalip"?
Why, it practically trips right off the tongue. Then plunges to its death.
It's a town in the Seattle area. So, it's likely a codename.
It's actually a Native American tribe and reservation (and casino of course) north of Seattle.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 08:12 · Score: 0

Tulalip is a place in Washington state. Microsoft is in Washington state. It's not unheard of for internal project names to be local place names.
Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by snowgirl · 2011-07-15 13:44 · Score: 1

"Tulalip"?
Why, it practically trips right off the tongue. Then plunges to its death.
It's a town in the Seattle area. So, it's likely a codename.
It's actually a Native American tribe and reservation (and casino of course) north of Seattle.
And as covered above, it's also a "town" being that the definition of town is vague in the USA. Go google maps "tulalip, washington" though, and you'll notice that it at the very least believes it to be a town. And likely people address mail that way.

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Re:Ha ha ha, REALLY? by Baloo+Uriza · 2011-07-17 06:44 · Score: 1

It's an indian tribe's name, you insensitive clod!

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"...didn't mean to..." - Not bloody likely by JackCroww · 2011-07-15 01:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Oops, we accidentally secured a four-letter domain, registered it with DNS servers, and uploaded content to it. But it was all a mistake.

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and.. by gearloos · 2011-07-15 01:41 · Score: 2

Microsoft Social Media Site Accidentally Revealed !! And nobody cared...

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Re:and.. by nine-times · 2011-07-15 02:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

I wonder if it's accidental, or if it's an attempt to undercut Google+. It reminds me a little bit of Microsoft publicizing the Courier concept right around the time that Apple revealed the iPad.
Re:and.. by jdgeorge · 2011-07-15 03:13 · Score: 1

Given the market right now, it's Facebook they'd be undercutting, not Google.
Re:and.. by Rennt · 2011-07-15 03:58 · Score: 0

I don't think that undercutting Facebook is what MS has in mind at all. Google+ has the world talking right now, and MS wants to kill it.
Re:and.. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 05:22 · Score: 0

Given the market right now, it's Facebook they'd be undercutting, not Google.
Don't be ridiculous. FUD of this kind doesn't work against an entrenched market leader (Facebook in this case), it's most useful against a hopeful challenger (Google in this case).
No substantial number of people is going to say "I'm going to stop using Facebook while I wait to see if Tulalip is any good", not even in Microsoft's most desperate dreams.
However, someone at Microsoft might dream of people saying "I won't switch from Facebook to Google+ when Tulalip is just around the corner, I'll wait for that first so I don't end up switching twice if it's really good".
Re:and.. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 08:40 · Score: 0

MS would not want to kill it. Anything that takes market share from Face book in 'social media arena' they would welcome. The enemy of my enemy is my 'friend'. Buddy up, weaken the giant, then turn on your 'friend'
Re:and.. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-17 05:09 · Score: 0

Except for the fact that Facebook has been steadily losing users

Doesn't Microsoft have like... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:42 · Score: 0

Doesn't Microsoft have like a bajillion internal design projects that never see the light of day? This might end up being another one of those.

What I like the most though is their apology screen. Polite, to the point, admitting what happened, and slightly self-effacing. With Microsoft I would've imagined just wiping it from the web and saying very little, if anything, when they make a mistake.

They didn't need to apologize anyway!

Re:Doesn't Microsoft have like... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:58 · Score: 0

That's because it wasn't a mistake.

Friendy by Baloroth · 2011-07-15 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny

"Hello, it looks like you're trying to find a friend!

Can... can I be friends with you? Please? Oh God I'm so lonely!"

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Re:Friendy by ZeroExistenZ · 2011-07-15 02:14 · Score: 1

Sortof like 3D-vision. Everybody is hyping it, but if you don't have depth-perception..
The same with social networks: once the late majority arrived and there were just posts of cats, baby pix, and has been through images of my long lost ex'es and laughed what has become with my high-school friends or acquantances, it got boring.
I don't care either about billions of people's their experiences and opinions which are creating a overly LOUD and NOISY saturated experience.
Yet, it's what the larger part of the internet-experience has become. It's a clickable tv where everybody is making their own reality-show. And in the end, there's a reason why they didn't show everybody on tv. Only few people are very interesting or give added value. And after a while, they sound like a broken record anyhow.

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Re:Friendy by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 03:49 · Score: 0

Everyone is a friend of Clippy, your friendly guide to the social!

Facebook/Twitter Login? by Kamiza+Ikioi · 2011-07-15 01:48 · Score: 1

Now that's pretty interesting. What happens when Facebook and/or Twitter decides they want to block Microsoft if it ever becomes a rival or a deal falls through?

I know, I know, Microsoft is courting both, Twitter for its firehose, and Facebook with Skype. But from the vantage of Facebook, for instance, doesn't really want Microsoft competing with them anymore than they want Google competing with them. Maybe Microsoft has assured them that it's a tie-in for Office 365 and/or Windows 7 media... but that's still overlapping Facebook in some areas, for instance, Facebook is working on music.

And at the end of the day, who trusts Microsoft and their embrace and extend strategy. Facebook and Twitter have shown a protective attitude too. Twitter bought up major 3rd party apps, and dropped support for any new ones, and the Google/Twitter firehose deal fell through. Facebook has shown even more aggression. They are a platform, NOT an API, in their minds.

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Re:Facebook/Twitter Login? by nine-times · 2011-07-15 01:57 · Score: 1

What happens when Facebook and/or Twitter decides they want to block Microsoft if it ever becomes a rival or a deal falls through?
It's also slightly funny for Microsoft to be competing with Facebook while partnering both for authentication and, if they're buying Skype, for video chat.
Re:Facebook/Twitter Login? by GroovinWithMrBloe · 2011-07-15 02:11 · Score: 1

Don't forget, Microsoft has also invested in Facebook.

The best thing you can say about google+ by kmdrtako · 2011-07-15 01:50 · Score: 1

It's not facebook and it's not tulalip.

I scored a google+ invite, wanted to check it out. There's no there there. Yet. Will there ever be? Some estimates of 10M already signed up. Now what. Everyone else is still over on FB. I'm thinking it could be the next Google Lively.

Will anyone got to Tulalip?

Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Kamiza+Ikioi · 2011-07-15 01:58 · Score: 3, Interesting

No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
The question is, what happens with someone like Lady Gaga joins? For Twitter, it was Oprah. Facebook is different, though, because it's more of a friend-to-friend. And I think G+ is more Twitter-ish (start putting big names in your Following circle, and it is a VERY busy place), and so yes, it may be small now, but it will explode.
10 million users in 2 weeks for an invite only service is crazy growth! And the moment a Lady Gaga or Obama goes on there, private or public, that will be acknowledgement that this phenom is real.
I personally use it like an addict, though more like Twitter than Facebook. It has enough friend-to-friend, though, that I don't need Facebook and can still post to family and friends without switching networks. As the noise grows in public, I'll back off a bit, just like I did on twitter, and keep to a closer circle of followers and friends, but still engaging publicly.
The best thing I can say about G+ is that if you want to use it like Facebook, you can. Like Twitter, you can. Like neither, you can. It's really what you make of it.

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Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:09 · Score: 0

See, I think this is why they have invites to begin with. If you don't get your invite from a friend, then chances are that you'll find none of your friends are using it.
Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:23 · Score: 0

wat
Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by tehcyder · 2011-07-15 03:57 · Score: 2

No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher

It's Friday afternoon here and I'm tired. Was that a joke?

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Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by EXrider · 2011-07-15 04:04 · Score: 1

No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
Am I the only person on Earth that could give two shits about what celebrities are doing?

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Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 06:11 · Score: 0

Personally, I couldn't give two shits.
Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 07:24 · Score: 0

No, we are two now.
Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Kamiza+Ikioi · 2011-07-18 09:34 · Score: 1

No one there? Forgetting the tech people, there are some big name celebrities on G+, ones who are on the cutting edge, like Ashton Kutcher. There are other celebs on their, like Kanye and Soulja Boy (though they are not big posters).
Am I the only person on Earth that could give two shits about what celebrities are doing?
If it wasn't for them, Twitter would still be a little techy hang out and not the go to place for things like middle east protests and breaking news of such real time that it's completely transformed the speed at which the entire wired world operates. Celebs bring fans, fans bring audience, and audiences bring ecosystem.
A total geek hangout is fine, but I wouldn't call /. a social network. Big fish, big pond, little fish, little pond. So, for all the social media developper geeks, it matters not if you give a shit about them, but if they give a shit about your platform. And people who are developing the really big ideas that are changing the world do give a shit, because an otherwise brilliant idea or piece a code isn't worth shit if its shunned by high profile people.
It's a numbers game with certain people carrying higher numbers than others. And any forward looking geek that says they don't give a shit about the numbers is either a get off my lawn text gopher user or lying. Even Torvalds gives a shit about the user numbers, and that's pretty arcane shit that Lady Gaga probably knows nothing about.
Unless you are just throwing up that smug middle finger at celebs just cause you are geeking out and being an anti-social rebel... in which case, carry on and keep up the good work, Rebel Without a Social Graph. :P

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Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by EXrider · 2011-07-18 09:51 · Score: 1

I'm not a social retard by any means, I keep a tight group of friends and I have a lot of acquaintances. I just care more about what people close to me, like family, that have a more direct influence on my life are doing. I could care less about what Lady Gaga or Linus Torvalds are doing, really.

I guess when I said that, I really was talking about the people who obsess over what celebrities are doing. The types of people that actually watch TMZ or MTV. The types of people that let these celebrities tell them what to think, what to buy, who to vote for, without even attempting to do some research, catch up on real current events and form their own informed opinions. It really is the dumbing down of America, we're fucking doomed.

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Re:The best thing you can say about google+ by Kamiza+Ikioi · 2011-07-18 11:56 · Score: 1

We're already doomed... I hear the next hot show out is Let's Make a Survivor So You Think America's Got Idol. It's starring Carrot Top and a walrus as the host. ;)

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They really suck at names. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 01:54 · Score: 0

Vista, Windows 7, Bing, Tulalaiplapaa.

Microsoft really sucks at names.

Re:They really suck at names. by bberens · 2011-07-15 02:04 · Score: 1

Of those, Windows 7 is a perfectly fine name.

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Re:They really suck at names. by ZeroExistenZ · 2011-07-15 02:20 · Score: 0

Microsoft really sucks at names.
They used to have talent. Now they have well-fed pigs who try to be creative and funny "like it used to be"
They have piles of cash to sit on, and to maintain the hiearchy they've build over years to keep the revenu coming in. Inspiration has long been gone.
It's like your wife who was hot when you married her. But after 5 years, she yells at you when you suggest she's lay off the cheesecake or join you in sports...

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Non functional by Combatso · 2011-07-15 02:00 · Score: 0

"The site, branded 'Tulalip,' was not functional" - So its ready for release then, right Steve?

Odd... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:00 · Score: 1

>> "Socl.com is an internal design project from one of Microsoft's research teams which was mistakenly published to the web."

I see one of two scenarios.

1) Since internal != internet, why the hell would you even register a domain name for something that was intended to stay internal? They could have simply used socl.microsoft.com if they needed to test it from another internet-connected site. So, scenario 1 is that MS is lying through their teeth.

or

2) They 'accidentally' published an entire web site. Imagine how safe your data would be with them.

So, either they're liars, or incompetent. Either way, DO NOT WANT.

Re:Odd... by Malizar · 2011-07-15 02:10 · Score: 2

You missed the fact that they might be both.
Re:Odd... by stephathome · 2011-07-15 02:54 · Score: 2

They're not lying, they're marketing. There's a difference. /sarcasm
Re:Odd... by UnresolvedExternal · 2011-07-15 03:24 · Score: 1

We are suffering from Slashvertisment by Proxy...
(every possible pun intended, even ones I didn't think of)
Re:Odd... by jojoba_oil · 2011-07-15 03:49 · Score: 2

That's just like saying:
Politicians aren't lying; they're legislating. There's a difference. /sarcasm

Tulalip by jparker · 2011-07-15 02:03 · Score: 2

That sounds like a big gamble... (oh ha ha. oh it hurts. ha ha. ha)

(To add a thin veneer of content to this otherwise horrible joke, Tulalip is a town near Seattle, much as Whistler and Blackcomb are nearby mountains. Tulalip is best known in the Seattle area for several casinos. I wouldn't be surprise if MS intended the name to be a nod towards the gamble of it all.)

Re:Tulalip by snowgirl · 2011-07-15 02:06 · Score: 1

That sounds like a big gamble... (oh ha ha. oh it hurts. ha ha. ha)
(To add a thin veneer of content to this otherwise horrible joke, Tulalip is a town near Seattle, much as Whistler and Blackcomb are nearby mountains. Tulalip is best known in the Seattle area for several casinos. I wouldn't be surprise if MS intended the name to be a nod towards the gamble of it all.)
Eh... more likely that Microsoft tends to prefer geographic internal naming schemes.

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Re:Tulalip by Eightbitgnosis · 2011-07-15 09:05 · Score: 1

Don't forget all the illegal fireworks people buy there too
Can't forget Boomcity

Accident! by creat3d · 2011-07-15 02:04 · Score: 1

Meh, Apple calls them "leaks"... to each his own. I call it a desperate PR move that will fail to bring any real excitement to an idea that's, as mentioned above, already grown old very fast (nowhere near fast enough, though). Move along, nothing to see here!

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Old dogs and new tricks by assertation · 2011-07-15 02:05 · Score: 4, Funny

Microsoft trying to do a social media site makes me picture Bob Dole dressing like a 23 years old and trying to blend in at a dance club

Re:Old dogs and new tricks by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 06:21 · Score: 0

There are lots of younger employees at Microsoft that get social media.
Boatloads of the older employees that don't just won't get out of the way.
Re:Old dogs and new tricks by assertation · 2011-07-17 21:58 · Score: 1

That has been the story with every innovation after Windows was created.

AutoSocial by sgt+scrub · 2011-07-15 02:05 · Score: 1

Warning: If you are offended by anti microsoft posts don't read this. It is not meant for you.

Finally! A social media site my machine will automatically sign me up for and post all of my personal information and documents to. It rocks how Microsoft thinks ahead for you. I REALLY hope this comes with office 240!

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Re:"...didn't mean to..." - Not bloody likely by InsectOverlord · 2011-07-15 02:14 · Score: 1

I don't know if it is accidental or not, but I've witnessed blunders like that, and worse.

Microsoft: "Whoops... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:15 · Score: 0

I accidently a whole social media site"

cap: pricks

Re:Tulalips by obergfellja · 2011-07-15 02:15 · Score: 1

Give it to me!... Give it to me, Neal!

Re:"...didn't mean to..." - Not bloody likely by obergfellja · 2011-07-15 02:16 · Score: 1

*nudge**nudge* ;)

Re:"...didn't mean to..." - Not bloody likely by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:22 · Score: 1

If you go to socl.com it says:

"Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn’t mean to, honest."

They said "honest," so it must be true!

So then... by kakyoin01 · 2011-07-15 02:34 · Score: 1

Anyone want to bet on how many social media patents Microsoft will claim it owns? (Since this "accidental" leak could be seen as the calm before the storm: Microsoft's impending, probable attempt at social media takeover).

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Yay Microsoft by Subratik · 2011-07-15 02:38 · Score: 0

Another second-rate product just to tap a market they're not in yet... I love their business model... /ends sarcasm I think the zune is pretty good now though, can anyone confirm/deny?

If you choose not to decide.. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 02:41 · Score: 0

.. you still have made a choice.

Finally! A social media site my machine will automatically sign me up for

This is the key and why a MS site could end up having users. They didn't get to be big by winning comparisons and making prospective customers say, "I'll take the Microsoft one."

Tie the signups into Genuine Advantage verification (i.e. to keep Windows running you have to have a profile), keep the OS preloads going (even paying OEMs to use it, e.g. Nokia, if you have to), and whether it's any good or not, it could have tens of millions of users.

Then they just need a "like" or "+1" button to get webmasters to embed references on third party pages, and they'll start being able to track the users, thereby generating targeting data for advertisers, and there's the revenue.

Preloads: it's like printing money.

At least their 2nd attempt by Monoman · 2011-07-15 03:03 · Score: 1

How soon they forget .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live_Spaces

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There's also a rumour they have a phone OS... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 03:28 · Score: 0

I can't find anyone who's seen it yet though. Perhaps they could accidentally leak that too in the hope it gets some publicity.

Awsome! by islon · 2011-07-15 03:36 · Score: 1

It's gonna be a big success, everyone that has a windows phone will use it!

deomographics by crimperman · 2011-07-15 03:37 · Score: 1

I note the picture covers all the major demographics as you would expect. I presume that MS Poland will be able to photoshop the ones it doesn't like?

"accidentally revealed" by RackNine · 2011-07-15 03:38 · Score: 1

Exactly. By saying that it was "accidentally revealed" they have everyone wanting to know what's all about. Good marketing strategy, if you believe it. I don't, even for a second

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Re:"accidentally revealed" by gl4ss · 2011-07-15 03:46 · Score: 1

well, no. if you plan to test some db setup or something like that, a social network where you can send messages, receive them etc, live edits and such, then it's a good concept to prototype as it gives you a real world sort of scenario to fullfil. if it were google, they would have ran it with a pr campaign with expensive viral marketing experts and then shut it down as a research project.

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Re:"accidentally revealed" by RackNine · 2011-07-15 04:17 · Score: 1

If it is a prototype the only possible way of marketing it is by "accidentally" revealing it. That's the only way you can be excused of not having a finished product while at the same time let it be known that you are on the game. As the original poster has pointed out, you don't need to buy a four-letter domain and register it with DNS servers just for testing purposes, Well, you would perhaps if you were on limited resources. Not the case.

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Social networking congestion in effect by DemonGenius · 2011-07-15 03:44 · Score: 1

There seems to be so many social networking sites in the wild nowadays, that, considering the amount of management that would take place between several of them, it would make more sense to direct that energy into managing our own websites and linking to our friends' websites instead.

Re:"...didn't mean to..." - Not bloody likely by tehcyder · 2011-07-15 03:55 · Score: 1

Great sig.

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A social network from the 'me too' company? by Tanuki64 · 2011-07-15 04:19 · Score: 1

How surprising.

"Leaks" by bonch · 2011-07-15 04:21 · Score: 1

Almost every "leak" is intentional. My favorite is when movie and game sites breathlessly report that some teaser trailer "leaked" and then was taken down. Companies do that on purpose to create the illusion that you're seeing something they don't want you to see, which creates hype. It also makes people host the video on their own sites so that the company doesn't even have to pay bandwidth costs to host it themselves.

Say what? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 04:36 · Score: 0

Toooolaap... no.. um... toooolip. nope, that a flower. hmm... tooolaalaaalip. What is that word again?

Re:Say what? by Un+pobre+guey · 2011-07-15 05:32 · Score: 1

The phrase nether tulalips popped into my head for no reason.

A mistake? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 04:42 · Score: 0

Everything MS has done in last few years has been a mistake.

Fad by Synerg1y · 2011-07-15 04:53 · Score: 1

Looks like social networks are going the way of everything else and will soon be rated at a consistent life span from when you start up to when something else comes along w/ 1-2 better features and a new interface.

If I Put Roses on Your Piano by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2011-07-15 04:59 · Score: 1

Would you put Tulalips on my organ?

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How original - a Windows 8 copy... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 05:24 · Score: 0

Is that crappy 'Windows 8' theme going to be in everything that Microsoft produce from now on? That dickwad Jensen Harris has a LOT to answer for...

Destined for failure. by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 05:47 · Score: 0

Google+'s numbers aren't doing that well, and Google (the company) has a pretty large fan base. In reality, the majority of non-geek users will probably not convert from facebook to Google+. (As demonstrated by the highly male demographic of Google+ http://gizmodo.com/5821447/where-are-all-the-girls-on-google%252B)

Microsoft is too late to the party, and has nothing to add. I almost feel sorry for how pitiful this service will be, until it silently dies in a couple years.

What's in a name? by sootman · 2011-07-15 06:36 · Score: 1

Original first choice: "Bing minus"

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M$ buy FB for a few billion by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 06:43 · Score: 0

My theory: M$ will eventually buy cash-strapped, Google+ pressured FB, for a few billion dollars, then promptly run them into the ground (accidentally) as they have done to hotmail and others. Google wins in the end, two birds with one stone.

Its just a wrapper round Google+ by phonewebcam · 2011-07-15 06:47 · Score: 0

That's how they got it running so fast, like they do with Bing

may be by piyushwadhwa · 2011-07-15 07:18 · Score: 1

social media is turning out be a new powerful industry, then why the IT's old horse microsoft wants to be left behind and may be there new project will be back soon

hello anti-microsoft fanboys by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 08:53 · Score: 0

shouldn't all of you be on the microsoft bandwagon by now? I mean the reason you hated microsoft was because it didn't give you things for free, it was huge, it cost, it used cut-throat business practices, it controlled, it was a multi-billion dollar company which ofcourse meant it embodied all that was evil and naturally, it was everything you hated. Come now, isn't that apple, facebook and google today? i mean the most controlling company out there is Apple. And facebook, wow - paying cheetos PI to dig up dirt on competitors? and google - who could probably reverse engineer and clone each of you by now with the amount of information they have on us all (albeit, stored 'anonymously').
c'mon fanboys there are three new arch-demons in town to slay! poor underdog microsoft is your kind of compnay now, ain' it?

Must be the Re-Release of Microsoft Bob by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-15 16:19 · Score: 0

Microsoft Bob aka Melinda must have pushed the publish button on her cat's meow scratching pole instead of clicking sent to test department.

Social media PEE PEE Analogy by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-16 23:54 · Score: 0

I am curious to find out if Microsoft's is also about PEEPEE. Here is my 2cents on all the existing social media channels. It's all about the Pee Pee :-)

Twitter: I need to pee pee!
Facebook: I pee peed!
Foursquare: I’m pee peeing here!
Quora: Why am I pee peeing?
Youtube: Watch this pee pee!
LinkedIn: I pee pee well
New myspace: let’s dance while pee peeing!
Google+: Let's all pee pee in a circle
http://awesomize.me : HOW AWESOME DO I PEE PEE on Twitter, FB, Foursquare, Quora, youtube, LinkedIn, myspace and Google+

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