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Microsoft labs tests a Wikipedia of average Joes

Microsoft labs tests a Wikipedia of average Joes | Beyond Binary – CNET News.
I tried using this on my own name and I cannot find anything except a famous tennis player, a television character, and Adidas shoes with my name on them so this isn’t much different than a Google search with cluttered results. [...]

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Microsoft Outlook To Become More LinkedIn

Microsoft Outlook To Become More LinkedIn.
Professional social network LinkedIn is showing a little Microsoft love today. In conjunction with the announcement of the beta of Microsoft’s Office 2010 at its Professional Developer Conference, LinkedIn and Microsoft have partnered to offer an add-on that integrates much of your LinkedIn contact information with your Outlook contacts.

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Microsoft in Talks with MySpace About Music Offering for MSN

Exclusive: Microsoft’s MSN Is in Early Talks With MySpace About Music Tie-Up

by Kara Swisher
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 3:34 AM PT

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Microsoft’s MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace about using the social networking site’s music service, MySpace Music, to help power music offerings on the giant portal.

While sources at both companies cautioned that the talks are still early, Microsoft (MSFT)–which has its own music site that it programs with original and partnered content–execs are interested in goosing it

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MySpace and Microsoft Team Up: What Does it Mean for Facebook and Google?

The world’s second largest social network, MySpace, has found a new partner that may make the relationship between MySpace and Google a little more rocky: Microsoft.

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Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue

Alright, maybe we don’t need to borrow anything or for that matter anything blue, but I wanted to take a few moments to explain a few things about this blog.

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Real-time search rivalry hots up

BBC NEWS | Technology | Real-time search rivalry hots up.

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In Google and Microsoft Deals, Hints of Revenue for Twitter

In Google and Microsoft Deals, Hints of Revenue for Twitter – NYTimes.com.

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Microsoft, Google in Talks With Twitter to Integrate Tweet Feeds

Twitter is discussing data-mining agreements with Microsoft and Google that would make feeds from the social-media site available for search on Bing and Google. Twitter stands to gain money from the deal, and Yahoo! may also choose to license the feeds.

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