theSpoke: Here’s another blogging / social networking app from Microsoft. From Microsoft Watch:
So far, The Spoke seems to be in an early public test phase. There are about a dozen registered community members, or “hubbers,” participating in the message boards.Within the past few days, Microsoft added a Real Simple Syndication (RSS) feed capability to the site. […]
The Spoke is “almost a competitor to LiveJournal, Blog*spot, etc.,” said one individual evaluating participation, who asked for anonymity.
File this next to Wallop.
Will Microsoft Wallop Friendster?: Wired peels back the curtain on Wallop. "In fact, Wallop is Microsoft's venture into the red-hot social-networking arena, using the common Microsoft tack of piecing together existing technologies and packaging them for the novice user. Those technologies include Friendster-style social-networking capabilities, super-simplistic blogging tools, moblogging, wikis and…