While You Were Sleeping Microsoft Launched So.cl – A New Social Network

Ok, maybe it wasn’t while you were sleeping per se, perhaps it was while you were grilling or watching a ball game or mowing the grass. Whatever it was you were doing this past Sunday, at some point Microsoft pulled back the curtain on So.cl, “an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused […]

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Led By Former Microsofties, GitHub Brings The Party To Enterprise With New Windows Client

Screen shot 2012-05-21 at 12.43.04 PMGitHub, the source code hosting and collaboration service, has been growing like gangbusters. The site now has over 1.6 million registered developers, hosting over 2.8 million repositories on everything from jQuery and Ruby on Rails to node.js and Redis. At the outset, Github was just a side project, a tool to make developers’ lives easier (its first slogan: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”) Github is still a boot-strapped operation, but as both its user base and its own hacker collective (now at 73 strong) have grown, there has been an increasing demand for tools that fall outside Apple’s domain.

Today, about 50 percent of GitHub’s traffic comes from Windows users, and, as a result, the startup has finally heeded demand and is now officially bringing the party to Windows, launching a desktop app to address the challenges of developing on Windows and to make it easy for Windows developers to collaborate in open-source and private repositories.

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Microsoft Launches So.cl As A Social Network For Students

home-video-bgMicrosoft is officially launching So.cl, the social networking service it teased back in July. And it turns out, it’s not meant to be Microsoft’s version of Facebook, but a social networking service for students built on top of Facebook. The service is launching out of Microsoft Research’s FUSE Labs division, and is still being dubbed “experimental.”

Today, students at the the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University are being allowed to use the service, with other schools being added in the future.

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