Friday, February 17, 2012

MSN Gets Trendy With msnNOW

Redmond-based Microsoft has jumped onto the trend of surfacing news based on social buzz and popularity with a new service, msnNow, which it launched this week. The new service tracks the most popular topics and news articles in real time, based on buzz on Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and BreakingNews.com. The new service helps users figure out what are the most popular trending topics that people are discussing and sharing. MSN said the new site will help its users "cut through the clutter of the web", and use social clues to identify what people are most interested in. The new service breaks down topics by category, linking to stories and photos which have been aggregated by MSN, and linked to the original source.