{"id":4498,"date":"2008-06-11T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4498"},"modified":"2013-03-13T17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T00:56:34","slug":"microsoft-tests-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/microsoft-tests-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Tests Social Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6169\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6169\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6169\" alt=\"Microsoft's take on social networking.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/townsquare-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft&#8217;s take on social networking.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>JUNE 11, 2008 \u2022 Microsoft&#8217;s Office Labs division is testing an internal social network. Called TownSquare, the Facebook-like prototype has been used by 8,000 Microsoft employees thanks to word-of-mouth after only 100 staffers were informed of the social network.\u00a0 Although TownSquare offers primarily enterprise options for project networking, the underlying technology might prove useful for consumer application.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact:\u00a0 A strong consumer social network product may just be what Microsoft needs to boost its online fortunes. By running TownSquare as an enterprise prototype, the company avoids any harsh comparisons to consumer sites like FaceBook. But if TownSquare&#8217;s technology proves solid, unleashing a feature-proven consumer spin-off becomes much easier. In that eventuality, expect the obvious tie-ins with cross-platform Xbox Live connectivity.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNE 11, 2008 \u2022 Microsoft&#8217;s Office Labs division is testing an internal social network. Called TownSquare, the Facebook-like prototype has been used by 8,000 Microsoft employees thanks to word-of-mouth after only 100 staffers were informed of the social network.\u00a0 Although TownSquare offers primarily enterprise options for project networking, the underlying technology might prove useful for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6168,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions\/6168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}