Ever wonder what people are actually bookmarking using MSDN and TechNet Social ? Check out the Ticker and find out! With the Ticker, you can quickly see what’s being bookmarked by the technical community right now, today, yesterday, or over the past week. With each bookmark, you are also just one...

The online libraries on MSDN and TechNet are among the most used sites on our network. Here's some great ways to get the most out of your Library experience. Bookmark it: Create your own personal library and share it using MSDN Social and TechNet Social to bookmark library articles you think are...

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 TechNet. To see them, sign in to the Vortex site...

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, language, time period, popularity, and more. ...

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 . Tim thinks we can do better, folks. Perhaps some...

Whose insight is this? Well, it’s actually not mine – it’s the thought-of-the-moment from Gary Vaynerchuk , hyperkinetic (I mean, look at that face) and super-frank keynoter today at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC. Vaynerchuk revved...

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 back on a session about Designing for Community...

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: These are the MSDN and TechNet pages you want to be a fan of. As a fan, you can connect with other fans from around the world, and get...

Microsoft is opening up the MSDN , TechNet , and Expression sites to the worldwide technical community. Social bookmarking is an important element of our vision , enabling technical professionals to easily share their web favorites, find and connect with each other, and publish community-generated content...

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 tools and technologies. ...

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 . Have a listen - if you have any suggestions or feedback...

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 how army fatigues and TechNet stickers can make...

TechEd Australia is next week! And, our own Shanna Del Conte and Chris Slemp ... ...will be there to meet you, talk with you, show you how we are opening up the MSDN and TechNet sites to the technical community, and get your input. If you are at the event, swing by the MSDN & TechNet...

With all the buzz about our recent announcement on social bookmarking on MSDN , TechNet , and Expression , it'd be easy to think that's all we're doing. But that's not the case - we are planning much more than that. Why? Because our customers need more than just shared bookmarks to be successful....

Microsoft is opening up the MSDN , TechNet , and Expression sites to the community, so that technical professionals can better connect with each other, share knowledge, and succeed. Tagging - and especially social bookmarking - are essential ingredients for making this happen. Back in May, just before...

We've been working hard on our sites' search app. Recently we asked a group of developers and IT professionals to make it their default search for a while. Find out what they said and how to get the most out of MSDN and TechNet search on Chris Slemp's blog .

Fresh technical content for SQL Server 2008 is now online at MSDN and TechNet : New SQL Server 2008 TechCenter New SQL Server 2008 Developer Center Check out Chris Kilbourn's (Lead Site Manager, TechNet) blog for more great SQL Server 2008 links .

To help extend the reach and availability of technical content across global languages and markets, Server & Tools Online (the group that manages the global MSDN , TechNet , Expression , and CodePlex sites) will be leveraging the latest translation technology from the Windows Live and Microsoft Research...

To best support developers and IT professionals worldwide, Microsoft is commited to providing local-langauge MSDN and TechNet sites for many of our non-English language markets. Recently, the team added several new sites to our global network: MSDN Brazil TechNet Brazil MSDN Korea TechNet...

In May, we released a preview of social bookmarking for MSDN , TechNet , and Expression . Since then, thousands of people worldwide have installed our browser-based bookmarklet to add web pages from across the web to the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression "bookmarkspace." Now, using the javascript below...

Today, Dan Truax, GM of Server & Tools Online, the group that runs the global MSDN , TechNet , Expression , and CodePlex sites, blogged about the high-level investment themes for our Social Platform and web sites... *************************** The Major Themes for Our Social Platform Investments...

For your enjoyment - this video came out of TechEd 2008 North America . Fun and funny way to learn about Microsoft online community offerings, including the latest from MSDN , TechNet , CodePlex , and Expression . Most of the comments I've seen on it are actually serious debates on Pirates and Ninjas...

While we were at TechEd 2008 last week, Brent Serbus (Program Manager), Chris Slemp (Program Manager), and Don Tan (Test Lead) cut a great TechTalk video on our new Forums app . Millions of customers use forums every month to get support and learn about Microsoft products - find out about the latest...

Based on feedback on the recent subscriber download UI upgrade, the team is planning some revisions and would like to get feedback before proceeding. Chris Deluca, Dev Lead for the Subscriptions Benefit Portal provides an overview of the changes on the MSDN Subscriptions Blog . Click here to learn...

Ticker and Orbs are cool new Silverlight apps that visualize online community activity in fun and interesting ways. Find them here. Ticker: shows feeds of recent social bookmarks from MSDN and TechNet ; see what people are bookmarking - click on a bookmark to stop the flow and open it in your browser...