Microsoft Corp. announced collaboration with five of the world’s most popular social networks, Facebook, Bebo, Hi5, LinkedIn and Tagged. The company claims, this collaboration will make it safe, easy and secure for people to have accessibility to their friends, relatives and colleagues from more places on the web.

With this collaboration, an exchange of Application Programming Interface (APIs) will create a two-way street allowing people to move their contacts and relationships between Windows Live services and social networks more safely and securely. 

Through this API, users can invite their Windows Live Contacts to join them on these social networking services, without the need for screen-scraping, or providing private user credentials to outside networks.

Apart from this, Microsoft has also come up with a new website, www.invite2messenger.net , where people can invite their contacts from any of these five social networks to join them on Windows Live Messenger.

Facebook and Bebo usesr can start inviting their Windows Live Contacts to join their social networks using the Windows Live Contacts API from today at www.facebook.com  and www.bebo.com respectively whereas, Windows Live Contacts API will be available on Hi5, Tagged, and LinkedIn sites in the coming months.