We're pleased to announce the availability of our V1 release of MSDN Social , TechNet Social , and Expression Social . These new sites, which have been available in preview since May 2008, make it easy for Microsoft's enormous technical community to help...

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, Technorati, and Facebook. He’s now updated the plug in to work with Microsoft’s new social...

In the last of my series of cool new toys we're adding to extend the new MSDN , TechNet , and Expression social bookmarking sites, we've just posted a set of accelerators for IE8. Thanks to our own Tim Pearson and Husain Shambhoora for creating these...

Continuing our series of cool new stuff you can do with our new social platform, Taylor Parsons has a post fully outlining all the conditions and parameters that you can use to slice and dice social platform queries. Here's some examples using Taylor...

This is the start of a series of small posts on some goodies that are sprouting up to make interacting with our new Social apps easier. First up is some FeedFlare that Dan Rigsby created . FeedFlare, according to the FeedBurner site, is designed to...

Yeah, now THESE ads, I like. Not that I minded the Seinfeld ones--good attention-getters--but when they came out, I was hoping that we'd move to something like this quickly. Turns out, the powers that be are at least as smart as I am :) Phew. Windows...

My one pre-meditated bit of sightseeing while here was to book this day trip to the Blue Mountains. I'm so glad I did. Some fantastic sights, and a very relaxing day overall. Ended the day meeting our Australian sub counterparts over a friendly dinner...

I guess it's actually Day 1 for most attendees... the lucky ones that live in this beautiful place. I started the day at an AIMIA event about Social Media and its role in Marketing. Interesting panel discussion led by Aussie reps from MySpace, Bebo, and...

I've got three bullets on the keynote: It all started with the "No Need to Shout" video about our work on MSDN & TechNet. Pretty psyched to see that still getting play and a few laughs. Then there were cool free-runners. Always amazing to...

Spent the morning doing shameless self-promotion for my chalk & talk presentation in the MSDN lounge. We had a great turn out (lunch hour helps), but didn't have enough time for many questions. We'll run it again tomorrow for anyone that missed it...