Have you ever see or even know internet before they invented search engine such as Yahoo! or Google ? As the net continues to grows, so does social networks. Nowadays many ideas on building social networks are limitless, but no one ever thought about building it in search engine, well Microsoft did. In there new research fuse lab, a New kind of social networks, SO.CL . This social networks originally build for students and establish for learning. This social networks is a search engine on socials, as you search on the net, you also able to post your search, and vice versa to the people your follow.
The Unix about so.cl is the architect very much like Google + , with a taste of Twitter (follow and following , and the typical of updating concept, instead of friends or circle of friends ) also yups, a search engine in main topic. As Microsoft FUSE research Lab said :
The So.cl search experience is powered by Bing; we use the public Bing APIs to display search result data. As students work together, they often look for the same content, and discover new shared interests by sharing results. These results can be web pages, images, or videos found through Bing. We see this trend today on many social networks, such as Twitter, where shared links spread virally and amplify popular content. So.cl experiments with this concept by letting you easily share links as you search.
As you search, you can also post them, and enables you to share with your friend. When you type SO.CL you will see this page :
And you might see something familiar with the page, yes … it was facebook login linked with so.cl, with this feature you’re able to link your facebook account, which is that is the Idea of SO.CL, to get your search share to others and to other networks as well. To get started, in this time, so.cl (pronounced : social) available only for University Students, but because of the invites feature they have on so.cl , I gladly able to invites only for 10 people, big different with Google + when they come in Beta versions, limited only for 50 people. And then, the first thing you might see on their profiler is :
A bit of taste of Google +, but with much feature, when you see the HOUSE pic, that HOME, indicated that you back to this profiler page, in the white box, meaning you type (the default function is as a search engine,) what you want to search, if you looked at the next icon , that is updating status icon, indicate that you type a status update, and the last icon (looks like a globe icon, indicates the privacy of your updated, meaning as a search or just updating status. The explanation on the first profiler is the main objectives of so.cl , things to do with your first login in. By the way, when you first login, (in beta only) if you’re invited by someone who already join this network, you might do some choices of people you would like to follow as your (friends). If you choose them, they will automatically described as your following people in the side of this page. The Profile tab is your recent doing and also available “setting” for your streams will look like :
A setting of notifications, and also if you click on the language translations setting you preferred :
Also your privacy settings and your preferred search provider, this so.cl really took you to the edge of internet and with social networks link you might put your self as a “teacher” and making people , or follower able to learn as you search and surf the web. An example of search as you type on the white box of your profiler,
The first thing showed is the picture, of your search. This search will automatically pop ups in your feeds and also in your follower feeds. The great thin about so.cl is you able to share with your facebook page, as they also feature in tab,
This setting is available when you updated first in so.cl and then you want to share with your facebook friends, or other feed that provide code in HTML, and if you like to link to other post of url, you want. As you surf on search engine, you shared to your follower, this is the main thing about so.cl, But when you search, you don;t search the web content only, if you preferred to search a video’s, you might like this feature on so.cl .. it is called : Video Party, which is the separate from search main profiler, and will take you to video page share, as you search on videos and share them and put them to your automatic feed with your following people.
Not like YouTube, this Video Party is available for your enjoyment as they stream, and you might look on others search videos as they search, and you look, you might get some other perspectives, and a broad views on videos or other content in the search engine, like a party.
In short, SO.CL really a breakthrough in social networks, not like many other social networks in putting on some point, like : music, hobbies, information's, videos and others, SO.CL is really a took a step in joining a search engine on social networks as they search and share, you learn something.. and you link them. SO.CL (even though still in beta) and limited to a numbers of people, but the main idea’s is taking them a huge leap on social networks and by joining to search engine, making them a bigger broad views of people to get to share, as the internet becoming so close, as you able to interact and share like in real life.
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