A peek behind the 'Wallop' firewall
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft Research is looking at how to leverage blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and other social-networking tools. When Microsoft showed a prototype of software code-named "Wallop" at last month's Professional Developers Conference, attendees understood exactly what they were seeing. And the fact that Microsoft is sequestering Wallop behind a corporate firewall, allowing only a small number of researchers and their contacts to test the software, isn't helping to clarify matters.