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...

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...

Our vision is for the MSDN, TechNet, and Expression sites to be the largest and most vibrant online communities for technical professionals, enabling easy connections to the best resources and most knowledgeable people from Microsoft and the global community. Social bookmarking plays a vital role in that vision, but is just one application amongst a network of increasingly integrated applications - all running on a common social platform....

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...

...and 1 really easy way to improve the lives of students in Waveland, Mississippi. Amazon.com is now accepting pre-orders of Sara Ford's Visual Studio Tips book. This book is special, because 100% of the royalties go to a scholarship fund for students...

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...

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...

Happy Birthday! :-) Tonight, Soma blogged on CodePlex's 2nd birthday... It seems like only recently, but is has been two years since we launched CodePlex . We launched this in Summer 2006 as Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Our goal...

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...

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: ...

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...

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... ***************************...

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...

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...

To help support IT professionals with Windows client software across the entire lifecycle , the Windows and TechNet teams have collaborated to launch a new unified Windows Client TechCenter. This new TechCenter is different from all the others on TechNet...