Microsoft's Kin ponders nature of friendship

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Microsoft has created a series of webisodes for its Kin social-networking cell phone. They're meant to test friendships. And by "friendship," I mean the new definition of it that social networking has created. The slogan, "For your Friends, 'friends' and FRIENDS," makes more sense in three different fonts, but you get the idea. So, they picked a girl named Rosa, who has more than 800 friends across her networks, and sent her to meet them all in person and find out if they actually are her friends.

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