I have been following the troubled launch of Microsoft's new social search community socl - which seems to have stabilized after some shaky hours today.

So, what is riffing?

Like Google Plus and Facebook, you can comment on a socl post - and you can reshare it - but riffing is like collaboratively sharing it - and the original post is attached with its comments - and there is a link to view all riffs as a category

well, Microsoft had to do something different, didn't they?

Please +K my influence in Social Networks on klout

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