Windows Phone Mango social networking integration demoed on video

Steve Bottom has been working on the Linkedin and Twitter integration on the Windows Phone Mango for almost a year now and the results are exciting. The Program Manager at the Communications Group on Windows Phone demonstrated how Microsoft has enhanced the social networking experience on Mango in a video released by the company.



Twitter and Linkedin have been seamlessly integrated into the operating system of the phone, joining Facebook and Windows Live. All social networks are found in one place, together in the People Hub. While this is certainly easier than using a separate app for each network, things can get pretty noisy and chaotic when updates from Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook all pop up at the same time and compete for your attention! Microsoft has a solution for this.

At the top of the ‘what’s new’ feed lies a feed filtering option. At any time, all a user has to do is tap on the ‘all networks’ label, enter it and choose a network, the feeds from which he wants to look at. This way, one can choose to look at feeds from just one network, or all of them.
   
Microsoft has made viewing and replying to social notifications really easy as well. On the phone’s start screen, the ‘Me’ tile lights up every time there is some activity on the user’s social networks. This activity can range from being mentioned in a tweet on Twitter to being tagged in a photo on Facebook.

On tapping the tile, the user enters a page which holds his profile and a feed of notifications. He needs only to tap on a particular notification and take action on it. Now one can comment, like and retweet, all from a single place!
       
By building the Windows Phone Mango as an easy to use and fun social networking platform, Microsoft is throwing some serious competition towards the iOS and Android Operating Systems. We keep a watch as the competition heats up.