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Web Apps Launch…With New Facebook Features

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21/04/2010

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Well I wasn’t expecting this, I was happily watching the live stream of Facebook’s developers event, F8, and getting excited about the prospect of Open Graph when all of a sudden Microsoft are being mentioned and Mark Zuckerburg tells us that they are launching a new service. This new service is called Docs.com and is a the portal for Microsoft’s Office Web Apps with a large amount of social networking thrown in and comes courtesy of Fuse Labs, Microsoft’s social networking focused developers (its nice to see they have toned down their website).

Users can sign up to the service at Docs.com using the newly announced and released social integration tools from Facebook which allow users to register for a service even easier than before. Once signed in users will be able to discover and share documents with their Facebook friends and create or edit Office documents in the cloud using Office’s new Web Apps. The integration between Office and Facebook should, in theory, allow for some very user friendly document collaboration which looks set to be the future of how documents will be written.

I have tried to create a new document using the site but have so far only run into errors it is, however, possible to view the public documents from the home page. When viewing some of the provided documents I was able to see some of the social networking integration through the document’s wall on the right hand side, this could be quite a major feature.

I had hoped that the Office Web Apps on SkyDrive had been updated so we could use them but I guess we shall have to wait a bit longer, either when Windows Live is updated in the coming weeks or when Office 2010 is released to customers. It remains to be seen how this will work alongside the Office Web Apps integration in SkyDrive and Hotmail. Perhaps the partnership seen between Microsoft and Facebook will be carried over into the Windows Live services too with a single place the documents are saved but anyone with a Facebook account or Live ID could sign in and edit or create documents.

You can find out more about Docs.com, follow them on Twitter or “like” the application on Facebook.

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Windows Live Tags: Office, Web Apps, Facebook, Fuse Labs

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