Is Microsoft Joining the Social Network Boom?

Although it might want to reconsider the "Tulalip" name, the American software company hints it could be the next to join the likes of Facebook and Twitter.

Hot on the heels of the launch of Google+, Microsoft looks like it, too, could be joining the social networking world with a project known as “Tulalip.” A domain owned by Microsoft briefly hosted a statement over the weekend announcing Tulalip, a service by which “you can find what you need and share what you know easier than ever.” The site had links to Facebook and Twitter, suggesting the network, if it actually exists, could be integrated with those two platforms instead of trying to compete with them. The announcement was pulled quickly and replaced by another saying Microsoft didn't mean to post hints about the “internal design project,” although that could very well be some of that fancy Viral Marketing 2.0 stuff that's all the rage these days.