Facebook Teams Up with Microsoft on Docs.com

Posted by Gary Brewer on 27th May, 2010 , Facebook, microsoft | Comments Off.
Facebook Teams Up with Microsoft on Docs.com

Mark Zuckerburg announced the stage of f8, the Facebook developer conference, that Facebook will be launching a collaborative document-editing tool with Microsoft. Docs.com will be released to the public in just a few hours. Users will be able to find, create and share Microsoft Office documents with their Facebook friends. The site, which aims to…

Microsoft Launches Social Media Platform for Politicians

Posted by Gary Brewer on 20th May, 2010 , microsoft, social media | Comments Off.
Microsoft Launches Social Media Platform for Politicians

Twitter and Facebook have become important platforms for politicians and public figures to connect with their constituents and fans. Today Microsoft is unveiling TownHall, a social media platform designed to further serve the needs of these political figures. TownHall is part of Microsoft’s new Campaign Ready suite of tools and it’s essentially a plug-and-play web-based…

Spindex: Microsoft Reveals Social Aggregator Tool

Posted by Gary Brewer on 5th May, 2010 , microsoft, social media | Comments Off.
Spindex: Microsoft Reveals Social Aggregator Tool

Here at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft has announced its newest social media project: Spindex, a tool that aggregates social information from Facebook, Twitter, Bing, Evernote and RSS. The application, which is only available in limited preview to attendees of the Web 2.0 Expo, is an attempt to “make sense of your…

Take-down notices going after Microsoft Cofee

Posted by Gary Brewer on 23rd November, 2009 , Blog, microsoft | 1 comment.

by Nicholas Deleon on November 23, 2009 You’ll recall that CrunchGear broke the news regarding the leak of Microsoft Cofee, a suite of applications used by law enforcement officials for their own devices. The leak came from a popular BitTorrent site, and then spread to The Pirate Bay and all over the Internet. Needless to…