A new social network would, at this point, need to be extremely special. The appearance of something Microsoft's working on has been described as "strikingly similar to Facebook's." But TownSquare does have a few unique points, and it's going to get some spotlight time at an upcoming conference.
Unlike the all-aboard approach adopted by MySpace and Facebook, TownSquare is intended to be an internal network within a company. Around 8,000 Microsoft employees have already had their hands on it, according to
Perhaps the most important thing, though, is that you shouldn't be seeing the TownSquare named splatted across press releases and ads anytime soon. Microsoft's using it as "a platform to test the technology concepts," according to Havenstein, so a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference should at most involve a beta release. With the scheduled
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