Microsoft retires Project Emporia

Projection Emporia. We're guessing many of you have non heard of it only some of you seasoned vets surely take. Information technology was ane of Microsoft's many research projects into social, news, cloud calculating and other areas of "new media" interest. Only being a research project is just that and information technology entails a finite finish.

Such is the instance with Project Emporia, which was an interesting news app for locating stories that pertain to your interest. Call back of services like Zite. It had a defended audience on Windows Phone and even had a few updates here and there but equally of today, information technology has come up to an end...

The good news is similar all of Microsoft'southward research, what they learned will be incorporated into future services and officially rolled out. We may already exist seeing some of this in the form of "recommendations" in Windows Phone 8, which observes your online behavior either for apps or fifty-fifty local businesses and gives you recommendations based off of that (don't worry, it'due south 100% opt-in). Perhaps Project Emporia'due south findings will exist used to amend augment Bing News and plough it into more than just listings.

Either way, it was fun while information technology lasted.

Source: Project Emporia; Thanks, Sabita M., for the tip

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