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Microsoft unveils Spindex social-networking tool

By | May 5, 2010, 10:37am PDT

Summary: Microsoft’s FUSE labs outlines a new social-networking aggregator. Will consumers go for it?

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s FUSE labs, demos the company’s new social-networking aggregator. The new software features a social-feed stream, a “trending topics” section that goes a little deeper than the one Twitter offers, and the ability to bookmark items and add them as favorites.

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