So.cl (pronounced "social") is an experimental research project, developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.
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.
To encourage interaction and collaboration, So.cl provides rich media sharing, and real time sharing of videos via "video parties."
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 reimagine how our everyday communication and learning tools can be improved, by researching, learning and sharing in their everyday lives.
Be So.cl while researching that’s what Microsoft wants to say with its brand new social research project aimed at students. Last, Thursday Microsoft has officially announced its new experimental site, dubbed as So.Cl (pronounced as “Social.) The So.Cl is developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs division and is now open to the students at the at the University of Washington, Syracuse University, and New York University an sooner more schools will be added. Earlier, it was known as Tulalip and has been testing with students from selected schools in the United States of America.
Though, people considering it as a Microsoft answer to Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus or Tumblr but instead it’s a social search service for students built on top of Facebook. In fact, Microsoft says that, “So.cl has been designed for students studying social media to extend their educational experience and rethink how they learn and communicate. They can build posts with many elements—photos, video, text, and more—and share them with colleagues.”
