Much earlier this year there was a news release on how Tulalip was purchased by Microsoft for future use. At this time a Microsoft employee had slipped the fact that "Socl" was a future plan to be their new social media platform.

Socl is going to be fully HTML 5 and have no silverlight or flash/Javascript components. Pretty slick huh? The integration of HTML 5 is not fully finished and there is little open source available for general use at this time.

But we are seeing a lot of major corporations and blogs start pushing toward incorporating HTML 5 templates and software in the future. Faster loading times, smoother integration with various languages and universal issues. It should also be much more secure than our current HTML versions due to its complicated code and future developments.

There will be all the mainstream social features such as video chat, live messaging, full profiles, walls, and more. For the most part pretty competitive with Google Plus and FB, almost standard features I guess. And, supposedly the HTML 5 does all of this very well and performs flawlessly with Chrome.

Microsoft's already entered into beta with Socl and some of the media is sayign that the user interface and communication is top notch, quality programs. I'm looking forward to seeing it.

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