John Martin's Blog : Social Platform

VORT-EX08: The Swirling Mass You Actually Want to Get Sucked Into

John Martin — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:19:00 GMT

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....(read more)

Create Customized Social Feeds with MSDN and TechNet Social

John Martin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:20:00 GMT

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,...(read more)

NOW LIVE: Microsoft's New Social App for MSDN, TechNet, and Expression Sites

John Martin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:52:00 GMT

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. ...(read more)

New Social Features Integrated into Redesigned MSDN Dev Centers

John Martin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:25:00 GMT

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...(read more)

New Podcast: How MSDN is Opening Up to the Developer Community

John Martin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

MSDN/TechNet GM Talks about Future Investment Areas

John Martin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:21:00 GMT

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...

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The Major Themes for Our Social Platform Investments

In May, when I first blogged on our social vision, I also said that we'd publish more information about our site and platform roadmap. We're ready to start doing that now. They best way to begin the conversation is to first talk about our investments themes.

Think of themes as high-level things that we think are important. They are...

An Integrated Site Experience

Better Discovery

Enabling Social Connections

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Read the original post on Dan's blog. Let us know what you think in the blog or on the Futures Forums for MSDN or TechNet.

Next up: specific features and site enhancements...

New Channel 9 Videos on MSDN/TechNet Social Vision and Apps

John Martin — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:43:00 GMT

Great new videos about MSDN and TechNet's social vision, new social apps, and site redesign are now online on Channel 9!

Meet the people behind the sites...

MSDN/TechNet Social Platform: Social Bookmarking, User Profile, Enhanced Forums

MSDN/TechNet Site Redesign: More Useful, Better Experience, and Search Really Works :-)