Microsoft Social Network of the Day: Earlier this year, Microsoft was working on a mysterious “social search engine” called Tulalip, hosted at socl.com.
Now The Verge has gotten an inside look at the project, which has shed the “Tulalip” name and become Socl. The site appears to mix search, discovery and a social network.
Along with traditional status updates, Socl also lets users post what they’re searching for, which puts it into their news feeds along with Bing results.
Socl’s search grabs results from the web, as well as your friends’ saved searches and tags, much like Google has started to incorporate your friends’ “+1s” into search results. It also plugs into Facebook, giving you a base of contacts to start with.
The site also includes an HTML5-powered “Video Party” feature that lets users watch YouTube clips together.
Socl is just an experiment at this point, so it’s still missing some important features like private messages and groups, but Microsoft is reportedly getting ready to roll it out for public testing soon.
Check out some more screenshots after the jump.
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