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It’s probably well-known by many people, but I just stumbled across Microsoft’s MSN Sandbox<\/a>. It’s a bit like Google Labs<\/a> (Google’s “technology playground”), featuring what Microsoft calls “incubation experiments” which may or may not “represent any particular strategy or policy”.<\/p>\n

Most of the tools in the MSN Sandbox are well-known – some were even purchased as part of a company acquisition and just haven’t found their way to a release product yet (e.g. the Lookout e-mail search tool<\/a>). Strangely, the site that referred me to the MSN Sandbox doesn’t have a reciprocal link – that was start.com<\/a> – Microsoft’s new experimental site for RSS aggregation via the web, which I think I will be giving a spin over the coming weeks and will blog about some more if it turns out to be useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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