Is Microsoft also planning a Social Network?

Microsoft accidentally posted an image of its own social networking platform. Called "Tulalip," the site is designed to enable users to "find what you need and share what you know easier than ever," according to the image of its home page. The image was discovered on Microsoft owned domain socl.com.

As of Friday morning, the page had been removed from the site and replaced with this message: "Thanks for stopping by. Socl.com is an internal design project from a team in Microsoft Research which was mistakenly published to the web. We didn't mean to, honest."
Microsoft did not respond to a request for comment on Tulalip or whether the company is getting ready to launch either a social network or a social search site associated with its Bing search engine.
This development comes on the heels of Microsoft competitor Google's unveiling of its own social network, Google+, two weeks ago.