Microsoft Leaked Its Own Social Networking Secret, Then Swore It Was Accidental

Hot on the heels of all this madness + Google, Microsoft has "accidentally" leaked own social networking platform. Whether this is reached for all the hype or a genuine mistake on the part of some IT guy, we have one more question: What the heck is a Tulalip? I kid ... Fusible, which picked up the story first discovered that the name is also the name of a Tulalip Indian tribe near Redmond, Washington, Microsoft's home market away.


The teaser page, shown below, the railway was now on socl.com, which belongs to Microsoft, Fusible reported. There are rumors that Microsoft paid the lucky buyer Social.com what she Meaning $ 2.6 Billion for the domain name alone.

From the looks of it, this is probably a foray into "social search" with Bing is running to be the show. "With Tulalip you can Find what you need and Share what you know easier than ever," says the teaser slogan. Note the capitalization of the search and release? Yep, we're pretty sure that this will be divide, where to look meets the kind of good news is, as you can not do a Google search on Google + (What is this is all about, anyway?). Curiously, there are Facebook and Twitter to believe in lying fields on the teaser page that guides us, that this is a rather easy trip into social networks instead of a heavy Microsoft experience. If you can not beat 'em, join' em right?


The teaser page has since been pulled, while Microsoft swears it was an accident. Here’s what they replaced it with: “Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn’t mean to, honest.” Well, we’re still not sure if we buy into that whole “we didn’t mean to” part, but either way, we’re glad it happened.