Screenshot of Microsoft "TownSquare" - Social Networking at Work

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Screenshot of Microsoft "TownSquare" - Social Networking at Work

by Drew Olanoff Jun 12th 2008

We mentioned Microsoft TownSquare today, the new offering from Microsoft for internal social networking and document sharing, and we have a screenshot for you to check out.

From what we can see it looks like you get a steady stream of activity based on employee which is really, really cool and helpful, along with an RSS feed to track the activity. From a project management standpoint, this is a huge.

We'll keep an eye out for more info and keep you up to date. Is this something you would want to use at work, or would it creep you out?

Be sure to check out Microsoft Office Labs too.

Tags: labs, microsoft, office, social networking, SocialNetworking, townsquare

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

christian said 2:32PM on 6-12-2008

would this connect to their live spaces at all or no?

Alex M said 4:01PM on 6-12-2008

Isn't it awfully reminiscent of 37signals' offerings? :D

Josh said 9:50PM on 6-12-2008

What was the slogan for the announcement of Leopard? Redmond, get your copiers ready? Looks like they sure did that. I guess it is a good thing they own a whole 6% of Facebook otherwise they would be screwed.

James said 11:07PM on 6-12-2008

I read this somewhere else but was interested to see that you guys included a screenshot though I wish the picture was a little higher quality.

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