Next week, we will release a preview version of Social Bookmarks for both MSDN and TechNet and showcase it at TechEd North America the following week. While the preview will not have full functionality (it is also English-only), it will allow members...

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....

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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, the MSDN and TechNet websites are taking a big step forward by updating both the look-and-feel of the sites and, more importantly, what kind of content appears on the site home page and the home pages of mini-sites called Developer Centers and...

Part of our vision for Social Bookmarks it to use "social feeds" (i.e., feeds generated by content bookmarked by customers) to enable members of the community to publish useful resources directly to our sites. I'm happy to say that we have two great...

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...

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. ...

In coordination with the announcements this week at PDC2008 , MSDN has launched a new developer center for Azure Platform Services . This new center is THE go-to MSDN site for cloud-computing, including resources for SQL Data Services, Live Services,...

Ramp Up is a free learning program from Microsoft that provides community-driven learning paths or “routes” for building your skills with Microsoft developer tools and technologies. Ramp Up routes are authored by experts from the technical 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. 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....

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...

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...

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: ...

Last week was a great week and I want to thank everyone who visited us in the MSDN Zone and/or attended Tshak's or Paul Johnson's sessions. I also want to thank the more than 1,200 social bookmarkers from around the world that have started bookmarking...

Orange County Convention Center - Orlando, Florida Surpise and amazement quickly gave way to mental shock and fatigue for attendees of TechEd North America - Developer Week when they learned of recent innovations to MSDN , Microsoft's web site for...

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 Social Bookmarking Preview for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression is now live and can be accessed with these links: http://msdnbookmarks.com http://technetbookmarks.com http://expressionbookmarks.com While the Preview does not have full...

Since Friday, I’ve seen a few blogs that refer to our Social Bookmarks as Tagspace , and some that also assume we aim to compete with Delicious and other social bookmarking sites. Some comments… The MSDN and TechNet sites are not trying to...

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...

Not sure if technical certification is right for you? Think it is the right thing, but not sure where to start? Next Tuesday, November 18, Microsoft Learning will be hosting a 60-minute Live Meeting to help you answer questions like these… What can a...

Last week, the MSDN Team updated the MSDN home page hoping to make it more valuable and easier to use. We made tons of little changes and few bigger ones like: More better bloggers in the featured section (and an all new Featured Bloggers page) Downloads...