Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:40 AM
by
YAG
Social Bookmarking Beta released
Our team just released a beta of our social bookmarking offering codenamed TagSpace. The best roundup of it is on Dave's blog. This is a really early release - but we're looking for comments in our forum. Docs on using it are available here. Finally, to borrow from Dave's entry:
This is:
- A start, a stake in the ground, a beta demonstrating core tagging and bookmarking features we wish to enhance and develop in the months ahead.
- A social bookmarking service for members of the Microsoft product and technology community. This is the stand-alone service piece, along the lines of del.icio.us or other third-party social bookmarking sites.
- A first-draft tagging service intended to support Microsoft communities first on, then off, Microsoft.com. This is the integrated service piece, along the lines of the tagging features incorporated in sites such as Flickr or Microsoft's own CodePlex.
- A tool for community members to use to begin tagging and tracking resources on Microsoft.com.
- A means for Microsoft.com to begin to aggregate a "folksonomy" of terms that can be used to enrich and enliven Microsoft-related sites and community properties on the Web.
This is not:
- A replacement or competitor to Windows Live Favorites, which we regard as a different animal intended for a much more general audience.
- A full-blown, feature-complete service with all the kinks worked out.
- A replacement for your favorite social bookmarking service (yet!).
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About YAG
Yair Alan Griver is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties. As architect, he is responsible for creating a coherent underlying platform for properties that include blogs.msdn.com, forums.msdn.com, GotDotNet, chats and CodePlex. In addition to MSCOM architect, Alan is also responsible for the continued development of Visual FoxPro. Prior to the architect role, Alan was Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produced the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company.
Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.