Microsoft has launched Aggreg8, a social network for the IT professionals. In its welcome message it says;
Aggreg8 is a social networking and collaboration space for the IT community. Inside you can keep track of your trusted network, find others through your network with similar interests or situations. Then you can collaborate with anyone in the community inside our working groups. We even allow you to create your own working groups, choosing if you want to collaborate with the whole community or collaborate in private working groups. All the expected tools are there for collaboration, allowing you to create postings, post files, share events. And you can tag, rate reply to any posting. Of course Aggreg8 can come to you as all the working groups come with an RSS feed. So come on in and build your influence in IT! To the MVP’s we offer a warm welcome for helping us to build the best community possible.
Microsoft TechNet and Culminis bring the community jointly.
Ok, so far so good. However, I can’t imagine Microsoft launching a standalone niche social network for IT professionals and not as a separate IT community in its Windows Live Spaces. This looks stupid especially in the face of the login system where you can use your Passport login ID and password to signup, and build your profile and start your activities in the site.
If you asked me honestly, I am not too sure what Microsoft tends to achieve with it.
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