Article appeared on telegraph.co.uk
Microsoft plans to help people deal with social media overload.
Microsoft has announced that it is building a tool to aggregate all of a user’s social media activity into a single place. Spindex, which works in a similar way to products such as Friendfeed, aims to show users all their social network activity and avoid the hassle of logging on to various websites. It says it will help you you “Make sense of your social overload.
The General Manager of Microsoft’s Fuse Labs, Lili Cheng, wrote on the company’s blog that “Spindex, which we’re making available in early technical preview form, aggregates your social streams (Facebook, Twitter, Bing, etc.), making it simple for you to find what’s new, see personalized trending topics, and generally make the most of the time you spend being social on the Web.”
