The rising popularity of social bookmarking has finally caught the eyes of Microsoft. The Tagspace developed by Microsoft was intended to serve as a social bookmarking service for all of the Microsoft articles, regardless the articles are categorized under TechNet, latest research, product release, dot Net, programming, command shell, blogs written by the Microsoft employees, or many more. Microsoft named Tagspace as a social bookmarking tool for the technology enthusiasts, according to an overview of this Tagspace. Meanwhile, Microsoft also launched their community beta services for the users. As you visited this particular site, you’ll find all the beta applications and services developed by Microsoft.

Things happened for a reason. Big firms nowadays need to explore some other ways to connected themselves with the users in a web 2.0 approach. It seems that Microsoft is building their perceived web 2.0 in their own space and pace.