Microsoft said it and Fox News Channel will collaborate on...

tool will feature updated results “every few seconds throughout the speech”; let people self-identify by gender and register their party affiliation; and provide a live count of the number of “pulses,” or votes, alongside a “line graph of how users react to language and issues throughout the speech,” with data split by gender and political affiliation, Microsoft said (http://xrl.us/boga8r). It’s part of Bing.com/politics, which also has political news and “real-time conversations and social sentiment on major policy issues,” Microsoft said. The “Bing news selector” will let users filter coverage from left- and right-leaning sources, “Bing Beat” will provide “real-time social sentiment” across issues such as immigration and gun control, and a live feed of Twitter conversations will showcase reactions by “leading political pundits,” Microsoft said. Fox News’s contribution will be its political experts’ commentary and more analysis and multiple live video streams at foxnews.com/sotu. A recent Bing survey showed nearly three in four Americans “identified themselves as active participants or observers in political discussions,” Microsoft said. The survey was done in October by Los Angeles-based Impulse Research, through an online panel of 1,005 men and women ages 18-34, who “use the Internet for information on a regular basis,” Microsoft said.