Microsoft's Spindex Wants to Aggregate Your Social Net Wranglings So You Don't Have To

One name missing from the latest wave of social networking is Microsoft, which may be why it's pushing its new Spindex service onto the world. Instead of being a social net by itself, it aggregates your online life for you, making it much easier to program.

Spindex springs from Microsoft's FUSE research labs, and it was just announced yesterday at the Web 2.0 Expo event in San Francisco. A Microsoft spokesperson explaining the system to us described it as "a new exploration designed to...