Microsoft FUSE Labs

Microsoft's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs was started by Ray Ozzie and is run by Lili Cheng. The group focuses on real-time and media rich experiences and is located in Redmond, WA, Cambridge, MA, and Cambridge, UK.

Its official sub-domain was hacked by hacker named "Hmei7" on October 08, 2011.A pop-up message saying "Hoho microsoft got hacked by Hmei7" Leaving the defaced message "are you microsoft??, hacked by Hmei7" and "what about you?".^[1]

Projects

• Bing Twitter - Find out what topics are hottest on Twitter.
• Bing Twitter Maps - Ever wondered what people are Twittering about around you? Check out Bing Twitter Maps and see.
• DOCS.com - Discover, Create and Share Office docs with your Facebook friends
• Kodu - Create your own game! Kodu is a visual programming language made for children (or anyone) to create games on your PC.
• Project Emporia - Project Emporia opens up an entire social world for you – explore what people participating in Twitter are talking about in specific topic areas and see the world through their lenses.
• Spindex - Your entire social world in one page - find what’s new, search, see your friends’ trending topics. Make the most of your social time.

References

1. ^ "Microsoft FUSE Labs Sub-domain defaced by Hmei7". http://thehackernews.com/2011/10/microsoft-fuse-labs-sub-domain-defaced.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Daily+Cyber+News+Updates%29. Retrieved 2011-10-10. 

External links

• FUSE website
• Microsoft FUSE Labs on Twitter
• Docs.com announced by Mark Zuckerberg, Lili Cheng and Pat Kinsel
• First Look at Docs.com by ZDnet