Internet Explorer 8 makes it very easy to create accelerators , so we have created several new ones for our social platform apps on MSDN , TechNet , and Expression . Here are new Social Bookmarking accelerators for each brand in the IE8 Add-ons Gallery...

Technorati Tags: Live Writer , Live Writer Beta , MSDN Social , TechNet Social , plug-in Rahul Soni, a Microsoft field engineer in Bangalore, wrote a Live Writer plug in for including “Add to…” links to a number of social services like Digg, Delicious...

The MSDN and TechNet teams recently helped to launch VORT - EX08 (Virtual Online Remix- Total Experience), an online “virtual” conference for IT professionals, developers, and designers in the Europe. There are cool virtual booths for both MSDN and...

Thousands of technical professionals worldwide are now using MSDN and TechNet Social and Forums to bookmark and tag online resources. And it's easy to create customized and dynamic feeds from our social platform to publish social content by person, tag...

Tim O’Reilly put everything in perspective for us this morning by contrasting the current mega-problems of the world (disease, poverty, hunger, slavery even!) with developers' apparent passion for Facebook apps like the one where you can throw sheep ...

Comments on keynotes and sessions from Web 2.0 Expo in NYC, including Gary Vaynerchuk, hyperkinetic and super-frank keynoter; Jonah Peretti of BuzzFeed who revealed to us the previously unknown size and power of the “Bored at Work Network” (BWN) which evidently determines what “goes viral” and what does not; and Lane Becker who kicked off my day with a session on how Customer Service is the New Marketing, and suggested that we all act as “concierges” to our customers. ...

Chris Slemp blogged today on a cool thing Dan Rigsby has done with MSDN Social : *************************** You can add custom Flare to your FeedBurner feeds, and Dan's post shows just how easy it is. Click here to see both MSDN and TechNet Flare...

Today was the first real day of the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC . Several of us from the MSDN and TechNet team are attending . I attended a session on Search Engine and Social Media Optimization (see Rob Veliz's blog on our SEO efforts) and Katie Larson reported...

One of the things we did last week when we launched our new social application was to create new Facebook pages for MSDN and TechNet. As a fan, you can connect with other fans from around the world, and get the latest updates about our sites. The fan pages might just also be the first place people will begin to learn about v2.0 of our social app and other new things like the next generation of Dev and TechCenters....

This week, several members of the MSDN and TechNet team will be attending the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. I'll be blogging from the event, and will also be trying to Twitter throughout the week. My teammates below will also be attending: Husain Shambhoora...

In May, we released a preview of our social bookmarking application. Today, we released v1.0 of social bookmarking for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression. Renamed "Social" (e.g., "TechNet Social"), v1.0 offers social bookmarking and provides several important new capabilities. ...

Building on the new designs that were launched in May , the MSDN team is beginning to release a new round of Dev Center design updates - starting with the Visual Basic Developer Center . Developer Centers are mini-sites on MSDN focused on specific developer...

Yesterday, I had a chance to talk with John Bristowe (Developer Advisor, Microsoft Canada) about the changes we are making to MSDN, including our social vision and platform. He recorded our chat and now its a podcast you can get from his blog . ...

Some funny and interesting insights and photos coming out of TechEd Australia . See.. Chris Slemp's blog for comments on the keynote and attendee feedback on the MSDN and TechNet social strategy ... ...and the Microsoft Australia TechNet blog for...