Microsoft researchers has unveiled a new prototype product called “Social Desktop”. It can be a way how desktop connect to internet and can make sharing more easy. Social Desktop will bring web oriented sharing to desktop. Social Desktop provide desktop users to share their files over the internet without uploading files over the internet or any social networking website. Microsoft social desktop create a social url for sharing documents on social networking website’s. This url provides access not just to the file, but to a built in social experience which includes a rich preview of each item, comments, related items, tags, etc. Whenever friends comment with this social link via the web browser, the conversation is also available directly in Windows, and vice versa.
Microsoft social desktop is a Silverlight web page application so users can access it via a url m, so any mechanism for distributing links to your friends can be used such as Twitter, Digg, Windows Live Messenger, etc. Previews and/or files are stored on the web using Windows Azure. Social Desktop adds URLs to the files and folders on your desktop, letting you share anything on your computer with anyone who can click on a URL. Persons receiving links can either access via e-mail or comment, tag, and search across all shared items via our Web page. We implement this by using a .NET service, but it is possible to create a universal namespace for every device and data source for a user, providing a universally addressable namespace with:
- Universal access. The same URL works from any device in the world.
- Universal sharing.
- Universal tagging and commenting.
- Freedom from legacy paths. Data isn’t limited by file-system concepts
Social Desktop is a local service that maps the user’s local data into a .NET service bus service, enabling local data to be accessible through firewalls. Social Desktop also provides a Web-service view over the same data, with inherent RSS event streams for any container. New data sources can be mapped into the URL hierarchy, enabling a distributed view to be built. There are simple sharing paradigms that enable URLs to be shared temporarily or permanently.
good stuf, looks like a good soft