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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Equity Kicker - Latest Comments in Microsoft turns Live.com into a social network leveraging their IM social graph</title><link>http://theequitykicker.disqus.com/</link><description>Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:59:28 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Microsoft turns Live.com into a social network leveraging their IM social graph</title><link>http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/11/13/microsoft-turns-livecom-into-a-social-network-leveraging-their-im-social-graph/#comment-4456563</link><description>We have also just launched an alpha of our hybrid Social Network. &lt;br&gt;Unlike Microsoft and Facebook and Myspace and Ning;  we are Open Source and we also give back to our "Community"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The social network that can be found here &lt;a href="http://www.adelph.us" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://www.adelph.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Some of the feature of adelph.us are:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A top of the line  Read/Write/Re Publish feed reader.&lt;br&gt;A stand alone advertising Network&lt;br&gt;Integrated Classifieds Service&lt;br&gt;Integrated Music Store (Using SongBird)&lt;br&gt;Integrated Application Store&lt;br&gt;Integrated Products sells and Product affiliate sells service&lt;br&gt;Integrated e-commerce service (Handles Micro Payments and Revenue Sharing)&lt;br&gt;Super Distributed Micro Blogging Service "Conversations" &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We are also in the process of launching a hosted service</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">William</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:59:28 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>