Microsoft’s FUSE Labs division has revealed a new tool in a field where many have failed, social-media aggregation. Lili Cheng, general manager of Microsoft’s FUSE Labs unveiled Spindex at the Web 2.0 Expo yesterday and revealed that Microsoft called it, ‘kind of an impossible project.’
It seems that Spindex is going to be much more than FriendFeed or Socialthing as it will help you aggregate various data from a wide array of networks like Facebook, Twitter, RSS, Evernote’s bookmarking service, Integration with Microsoft’s Bing and a lot more services yet to come. Spindex is currently in a closed-beta status, and it will be available very soon through your Windows Live ID.
Cheng added that Spindex would be more of a social personal indexing service, unlike various other social aggregator it is targeted towards indexing and archiving. The web-based app will also feature a feed stream, trending topics sections which would be much deeper than the one Twitter has and the ability bookmark items. Perhaps the gap targeted here arises from the claims of RSS dying due to social networks. While, I am not yet sure about how praiseworthy it can actually be. It is unfair to judge it without actually trying it out. I don’t think it will be a big hit right out of the box, but then we are in an evolving market, aren’t we?
Source: FuseLabs Via: CNET
