Microsoft Introduces Outlook Social Connector, HR Begins Drooling.
Posted by The Blogging Desk on Tue, Aug 31, 2010
Microsoft:
The Outlook Social Connector connects Microsoft Outlook 2010 to your business and personal social networks. Within Outlook, you can stay up to date on the status and activities of your contacts, whether they are from your organization’s network, or from social networking sites on the Internet.
Frightening.
This new Outlook connector can work inside of the People pane so you can track updates, share messages, and comments. You can even track multiple social networks. At work. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy having my Facebook feed covered in farming and gun purchasing updates. What’s that, you can now check-in like Foursquare on Facebook? Even better, please check in all the time, friends!
I imagine such a tool would get locked down pretty quick, possibly immediately. Facebook and other site are generally blocked right off the bat at companies, so I’d be curious to know just how useful this Connector would really be. One can only pray for a Farmville Outlook Connector.