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Microsoft's Financial social network

microsoft financial social networkMicrosoft is tapping the social network phenomenon by starting up one of their own. This financial social network will focus on finance professionals, and be targeted towards career roles. By the sounds of things, this financial site could be based of the current Microsoft Live pages idea where users get their own personal blog area with the addition of forums, and on Microsoft Dynamics Live.

I know what you're saying. Oh no, not another social network started by a big tech company, and that's exactly what our thoughts are. With Reuters having announced their financial network set to berecently, we could see a full on financial social network war. However, companies like Microsoft do have built in following already, so the potential impact this network could have in a short amount of time could be quite high.

Could Microsoft announce new communities for sales, marketing, operations, HR, and IT fields later this year?

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Video, Windows

Watch live streaming NHL games online (US only)

Stream live NHL games on Comcast hockey live
There was certainly a lot of fanfare when Google announced that they were going to allow people around the world to watch in-season full-length games on Google Video. Well, it seems that Comcast now allows anyone in the US to stream up to 2 live games a day. When Comcast and the NHL first made this announcement, the games were only viewable to Comcast High-Speed Internet customers. This year, anyone in the US can watch the games - even DSL subscribers - via the Comcast Hockey Live site.

Before you get too excited there are a couple of things to keep in mind. Local games are usually blacked out, and to watch the live streams you'll need a PC with Microsoft Windows Media Player 9.x or higher and IE 6+ or a similar generation browser. So Mac users are out of luck (shock).

Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Web services, Social Software

DeveloperID: Social Network for Developers

developer social networkDeveloperID is an upcoming social network site designed exclusively for programmers, designers, engineers, system administrators, and any other member of the professional developer community. It's a pretty specific market niche. The network has not yet launched, but there is a slight little clue that it most likely was, and is being built with Ruby on Rails. Stay tuned in for this unique launch.

[Thanks, Mike!]

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