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Microsoft has quietly launched its own social networking project that it said seeks to combine social networking and search, while encouraging interaction and collaboration.

Dubbed So.cl (pronounced “social”), the new network developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs is an “experimental research project” that explores social search for the purpose of learning.

“So.cl combines social networking and search, to help people find and share interesting web pages in the way students do when they work together. So.cl helps you create rich posts, by assembling montages of visual web content. To encourage interaction and collaboration, So.cl provides rich media sharing, and real time sharing of videos via ‘video parties,’” Microsoft said.