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  Threedegrees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
threedegrees or 3° (frequently referred to as Three Degrees) was a communication and P2P application produced by Microsoft.
Three degrees had a concept of being able to stream your music to other threedegrees users, like a miniature radio station.
However, despite the other new features (Winks, nudges) being included in MSN Messenger 7, this feature was not, due to large copyright issues that would be faced by Microsoft.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Threedegrees   (252 words)

  
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Threedegrees allows users to form or join an unlimited amount of groups of ten.
A beta version of Threedegrees will be available for free from next week.
Although it will not initially generate any revenue for Microsoft, Threedegrees is regarded as valuable by the company because it may entice customers away from its instant messaging rival, AOL, and may provide it with insights into advanced peer-to-peer messaging technologies.
www.enn.ie /print.html?code=9350349   (355 words)

  
 AOL - Microsoft Teens Instant Messages AP 3-24-03
Threedegrees also allows group members to listen to music stored on their friends' computers -- without allowing copying.
Threedegrees could find its way into business software or other Microsoft products, said Michael Gartenberg, research director for Jupiter Research.
Threedegrees may primarily be a way for Microsoft to chip away at AOL's base, and perhaps make its MSN Internet service more appealing, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm.
faculty.msb.edu /homak/HomaHelpSite/WebHelp/AOL_-_Microsoft_Teens_Instant_Messages_AP_3-24-03.htm   (775 words)

  
 Microsoft instant messaging woos youth segment
Threedegrees is the first application from Microsoft's "NetGen" group, which has been working for about 18 months to find what services will ring truest with the young people who have "internalized the Internet."
Threedegrees will let Web surfers invite friends to form a group of up to 10 online, represented on the computer desktop with an icon.
NetGen has used several "untraditional" means for research, including its own version of the MTV cable television network's "Real World" which puts a dozen students in a house for three weeks and then watches them around the clock to understand their behavior.
www.ciol.com /content/news/repts/103030304.asp   (606 words)

  
 ZDNetAsia : Printer Friendly - Microsoft delays IM beta over security concerns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The group, largely consisting of recent college graduates, was formed in 2001 as part of Microsoft's efforts to develop services targeting 18- to 24-year-olds, or what the company calls the "Net generation." IM is central to these efforts, since the software has become a popular way for young Net users to socialize and interact.
Threedegrees services have made their way onto the current version of MSN Messenger, but their presence has been under the radar.
In fact, Microsoft hopes to make Threedegrees' collaboration services useful as a way to share song playlists, while integrating features from its MSN Music store.
www.zdnetasia.com /news/security/printfriendly.htm?AT=39196704-39000005c   (301 words)

  
 Bulletin - Wild child   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Representing the group on your desktop is a colourful image, either from a set provided by the software or something one of the group has produced.
And because threedegrees relies on cutting-edge peer-to-peer technology – which lets people send information to each other directly, without accessing sometimes overburdened servers – the project will be a test bed for future Microsoft person-to-person products.
Threedegrees is also a fascinating experiment in how music can be shared legally over the internet.
bulletin.ninemsn.com.au /bulletin/eddesk.nsf/All/C6FFD167AE3A692ECA256CD10006E2F4!open   (1142 words)

  
 The VCSi Forums - WASTE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Threedegrees allows you to create small private networks of up to 10 people to exchange instant messages, animations, pictures and, yes, music.
In beta release at press time, Threedegrees allows members to communicate with an entire group by simply dragging and dropping items onto the group's icon.
Threedegrees feels like Disneyland: clean, shiny, smiling and easy to use, but there aren't many dark corners to hide in (not that you need them, model citizen that you are).
www.villman.com /forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1314   (551 words)

  
 Messagebox Marketing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Go to the threedegrees downloads page and click on the "check out the 3 degrees demo" graphic in the lower middle of the page.
The only blog mention I could find of 'threedegrees' (or 'three degrees') was at discombobulated prolix, (courtesy of technorati) -- the blog of a fifteen year old australian, Phillip Bryant.
Well, I have mentioned threedegrees on my blog, but that was a few months ago (back in June - !http://will.id.au/blog/archive/2004/06/10/microsoft-p2p-for-windows-xp).
www.secretgeek.net /threeDegrees.asp   (297 words)

  
 Microsoft aims to tap 'Net generation' | CNET News.com
To use Threedegrees, prospective testers must be running Windows XP with Service Pack 1, the peer-to-peer update and MSN Messenger 5 installed on their computers.
While each group is limited to 10 members, one person could participate in a dozen different groups or more, instant messaging or participating in activities in any or all of them.
People interested in Threedegrees can visit the product Web site, which right now is merely collecting e-mail addresses for people looking for notification of the beta's availability.
news.com.com /2100-1023-984816.html   (1302 words)

  
 NetGen's Threedegrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Users form groups of up to 10 members (but can join as many groups as they like), who are then represented on their respective desktops by a shared icon.
This icon can be selected from the threedegrees set or customized by the user, using a digital photo.
The most hyped feature of threedegrees is musicmix, a jukebox feature where each group member can add songs to a shared playlist and where the group can listen to and chat about, music together.
www.trendcentral.com /trends/trendarticle.asp?tcArticleId=776   (245 words)

  
 CBSNews.com: Print This Story
The Redmond-based company is betting its new software, called threedegrees, will define hipness in greasing teen social connections — and help it capture a budding generation from competitors led by America Online.
The seeds for threedegrees came from a Not-Net-Gen'er, Tammy Savage, now 33.
A 10-year Microsoft employee who started in business development, Savage grew threedegrees out of a reality TV-like experiment with college students.
uttm.com /stories/2003/03/21/tech/printable545218.shtml   (791 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Personal Tech -- Wooing 'screen-agers'
The company is betting its new software, called threedegrees, will define hipness in greasing teen social connections – and help it capture a budding generation from competitors led by America Online.
Aimed at the 13-to-24 age group, the software, now in a testing phase, is like high-octane instant messaging.
A 10-year Microsoft employee, Savage grew threedegrees out of a reality TV-like experiment with college students.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/computing/personaltech/20030407-9999_mz1b7screena.html   (558 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Microsoft's beefed-up instant messaging aimed at young people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Redmond-based company is betting its new software, called threedegrees (www.threedegrees.com), will define hipness in greasing teen social connections — and help it capture a budding generation from competitors led by America Online.
Next, Savage assembled the future NetGen team — a group of twentysomethings — for a three-day retreat in 2001, and the program that eventually became threedegrees emerged.
Threedegrees also allows group members to listen to music stored on their friends' computers — without allowing copying.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/techinnovations/2003-03-24-three-degrees_x.htm   (855 words)

  
 ehMac.ca - threedegrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
One of its features is that it allows you to share music between a "small group of your friends and family".
It sort of sounds like the iTunes and Rendezvous integration demoed a while ago (but never released), but the threedegrees implementation sounds a bit more restrictive (probably to appease the RIAA).
What's really interesting is threedegrees is developed by Microsoft.
www.ehmac.ca /printthread.php?t=1073   (120 words)

  
 Ant's Eye View: Microsoft Aims at Youth With Threedegrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Newsweek and CNet are buzzing about an upcoming app from Microsoft named “threedegrees” that is targeted at what MS biz dev manager Tammy Savage calls “the Net generation” — 13-to-24-year-olds who “are on instant messenger before their morning coffee”.
However, a look at the system requirements for the service provides some insight: threedegrees users will need Windows XP (with Service Pack 1) and Windows Messenger to be able to play.
This is a particularly cunning move, in that both of those products have been suffering from lower-than-expected consumer uptake; almost nobody has upgraded to XP except those who buy new computers with it pre-installed, and MSN Messenger has long been blocked in the marketplace by the more widespread use of the incompatible AOL Instant Messenger.
www.antseyeview.com /archives/000209.html   (589 words)

  
 Geek.com Geek News - Microsoft's Threedegrees IM software
The name Threedegrees is taken from the concept of "6 degrees of separation," which states that you can be linked to any other person on the planet via 6 other people.
If Threedegrees is a success--and I believe it will be--then I see no reason for it not to spread to the corporate arena.
There are applications for this in business meetings, especially as Threedegrees will allow for private meetings to occur in an office, across buildings, or across international companies.
www.geek.com /news/geeknews/2003Feb/gee20030219018717.htm   (1800 words)

  
 BetaNews | Microsoft P2P Not All Fun and Games Yet
February 27, 2003, 10:40 PM With this week's unveiling of threedegrees for MSN Messenger and the Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Update, users got a taste of Microsoft's plans in the P2P space.
Microsoft is pushing the new technology with the Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Software Development Kit, announced alongside the update and threedegrees.
However, a flood of problem reports following the release of threedegrees and the Windows XP Peer-to-Peer Update emphasized the pre-release nature of the software.
www.betanews.com /article/1046403618   (1097 words)

  
 eSchool News online - Wooing 'screenagers': Microsoft bets cliques will click with teens
Threedegrees also allows group members to listen to music stored on their friends' computers—without allowing copying.
The software includes technology that only allows a user's music to be played when he or she is logged on, a nod to the music industry's piracy concerns.
Threedegrees might also be a way for Microsoft to chip away at AOL's customer base, and perhaps make its MSN Internet service more appealing, said Matt Rosoff, an analyst with Directions on Microsoft, an independent research firm.
www.eschoolnews.com /news/showStoryalert.cfm?ArticleID=4355   (989 words)

  
 The Furrygoat Experience: threedegrees Problems on XP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Seems like a few people who have tried out the threedegrees beta have been having some real problems with the IPv6 support.
John describes his experience: "I installed the threedegrees beta from Microsoft.
In fact, in no way do they represent the views or opinions of my employer, nor is it endorsed or approved by them in any way, shape or form.
www.furrygoat.com /2003/02/threedegrees_pr.html   (156 words)

  
 Jogin.com :: Threedegrees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Threedegrees is new software from Microsoft, it presumes you have broadband, Windows XP and that you're a member of what they call the "NetGen".
In all fairness, Tammy Savage -- manager in business at Microsoft and responsible for the project -- didn't call them "kids", but "young people".
Threedegrees, taglined "Friends, Fun and Music", is quite obviously targeted at kids though.
jogin.com /weblog/archives/2003/02/27/threedegrees   (465 words)

  
 Instant Messaging Planet: Public IM
The combined effect, say threedegrees' developers, is that the application fosters a "shared experience" -- which is really what the early-adopter teen/young adult demographic (or the 13-24 "netgen" segment, as Microsoft has termed them) are approaching with standalone IM.
The plan is to eventually productize threedegrees by about mid-year, but Cullen declined to disclose how specifically Microsoft plans to make money from the application.
The need for those exacting requirements are clear, since threedegrees uses some pretty new Microsoft technology to work its file-sharing magic.
www.instantmessagingplanet.com /public/print.php/2105671   (1237 words)

  
 Microsoft Gets a Clue From Its Kiddie Corps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Threedegrees is Microsoft's newest software that will allow users to share pictures, instant message, and share music with a group of friends and it is all free.
These competitors are also lacking the technology to allow users to share music and listen at the same time which is threedegrees' best attribute.
While threedegrees should do well with the younger target market, I do not see it appealing to thirty year olds and up.
pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~la205375/threedegrees.htm   (449 words)

  
 Microsoft Watch: New MSN Instant-Messaging Client to Go Beta Next Week
The threedegrees team has been laboring for a couple of years on an IM product catering to the teen — or as Microsoft has characterized it, the "NetGen" — market.
The threedegrees product has been in beta for more than a year.
Among these are the "winks" and "nudges" Microsoft pioneered with threedegrees.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdmsw/is_200409/ai_n7180534   (463 words)

  
 ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman - Thank the Good Lord I didn't install ThreeDegrees
This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Zenzo.
Not too old, just a little too old to be at the club.
That said, I'm watching the whole ThreeDegrees deal with rapt attention.
www.hanselman.com /blog/CommentView,guid,235.aspx   (176 words)

  
 Can Microsoft catch the teen spirit?: ZDNet Australia: News: Business
Savage and her team of 12 recent college graduates set out to understand their social habits and how technology and the Internet had become a part of their lifestyle.
Features include instant messaging for entire groups of up to 10 people; Winks, animation that can be sent to the entire group; Musicmix, for listening to music from a common source; and photo sharing, among others.
If successful, Threedegrees could radically change how Microsoft develops software for the Net Generation.
www.zdnet.com.au /news/business/soa/Can_Microsoft_catch_the_teen_spirit_/0,39023166,20272311,00.htm   (2092 words)

  
 NetGeners: Microsoft Wants YOU!
Microsoft's threedegrees, a new instant-messaging app, is the first of a number of technologies that Redmond could target at teens.
The new Microsoft threedegrees instant-messaging-based application, formerly code-named "Genesis," is aimed at the 13- to 24-year-old crowd.
Newsweek quotes Microsoft officials as saying threedegrees will be available free (from www.threedegrees.com), but there currently is no business plan for the technology.
www.eweek.com /article2/0,1759,1804368,00.asp   (843 words)

  
 ComputerUser.com News: Instant messaging moves beyond chat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
NetGen, the name for a youth-oriented effort by the company, is testing a version of instant messaging that allows groups of up to 10 people not only to take part in text chats but also to exchange pictures, animations and music.
A circle of Threedegrees members can communicate with one another by dragging and dropping items onto their group's icon.
Early Threedegrees users are also adapting this form of IM to their own social devices.
www.computeruser.com /news/03/05/21/news3.html   (1270 words)

  
 AugustaChronicle.com
The Redmond-based company is betting its new software, called threedegrees, will define hipness in greasing teen social connections - and help it capture a budding generation from competitors led by America Online.
Next, Savage assembled the future NetGen team - a group of 20-somethings - for a three-day retreat in 2001 and the program that eventually become threedegrees emerged.
Threedegrees also allows group members to listen to music stored on their friends' computers - without allowing copying.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/032403/tec_124-3938.shtml   (947 words)

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