In an effort to keep our East Region BizSpark startups informed of events in the region, we’ve set up a new BizSpark East Facebook page. We’ll post upcoming events and information of interest to our startups in the region. I made a TinyURL for this at http://tinyurl.com/bizsparkeast . Direct link to...

Great discussion here. Microsoft Senior Director Larry Gregory interviews Tom Leonard from CentricSites about his business, the cloud, and the WebsiteSpark program. Full link .

Sean Seibel works with the top agencies in the world, helping them to take advantage of Microsoft technologies in the work they do. This is an interview with Ed Starr from BMF Media and Frances Calandra from Vectorform, sharing insights on partnering with Microsoft in building IE8 Add-ons. BMF Media...

BizSpark Startup Linxter is launching a new product called MonitorGrid. It's a server health service that was conceived and developed as part of one of our BizSpark Incubation Weeks last year. I was able to talk to Linxter CEO Jason Milgram today about MonitorGrid and about the future of the project...

Microsoft just published a case study on Flickchart, one of my favorite sites on the net and one of my favorite BizSpark Startups. To me, this site shows off the awesome power of Microsoft Software in the hands of great coders and artists. So check out the case study and visit the site at http://flickchart...

At the recent Mix10 in Las Vegas, I was able to sit down with Christopher Bennage of Silver Arcade to talk to him about Silverlight games, XNA, Windows Phone, and about the future of their gaming platform. You can visit Silver Arcade, play some games, and even publish your own Silverlight games at http...

Digital Agency of the Decade, R/GA ( www.rga.com ), has launched multiple IE8 Web Slices both externally and internally. Externally R/GA uses an IE8 Web Slice to allow users to have toolbar access to their breaking news, while internally R/GA uses Web Slices for business intelligence. In this video,...

Quick video on how to add members to your WebsiteSpark account. This way your team members can all have their own login to download the software from MSDN. Each company in WebsiteSpark can have up to three members. For more information about WebsiteSpark or to sign-up, just go to http://microsoft.com...

@HOME WITH WINDOWS AZURE Elevate your skills with Windows Azure in this hands-on workshop! In this event we’ll guide you through the process of building and deploying a large scale Azure application. Forget about “hello world”! In less than two hours we’ll build and deploy a real cloud app that leverages...

Visual Studio 2010 is here! The product launched Monday and we have resources for you on the U.S. partner portal , plus new courses available to you on the Learning Plan Tool to help hone your skills on this great release. Featured Training Partnercast: Selling Solutions with Visual Studio and Expression...

As an MSDN subscriber or BizSpark member, your membership provides you 750 hours of Windows Azure compute time per month for 8 consecutive months at no-extra cost! That’s a total of 6000 compute hours! An estimated retail-value of $1,264! Have your attention? Not leveraging your benefit? Then let...

Part 2 of an excellent Azure series arranged by John . Enjoy. The Business Opportunity Behind Azure We’ve all heard about the industry shift to the Cloud, but are you jumpstarting your Windows Azure business to be a part of it? Wayne Beekman, co-founder of Information Concepts, made the decision early...

As partners evolve their portfolio of offerings to include Azure, questions often arise about pricing.  Although there is a great deal of information online already, help is often needed to clarify some of the finer details.  The following information was recently provided as a follow-up to...

Part one of a two part series on building your business on Azure. Microsoft Partners, Have You Pondered the Business Opportunity behind Azure?   We’ve all heard about the industry shift to the Cloud, but are you jumpstarting your Windows Azure business to be a part of it? Chris Rolon, an Architectural...

The “Learning Curve” newsletter is delivered twice monthly (second and fourth Mondays) to members of the Microsoft Partner Program based in the US as a benefit of their membership.  If you are not a member of the Microsoft Partner Program you can join today at https://partner.microsoft.com/ . It...

I created a tag for all of the partner videos we’re posting to channel 9. You can get to them all through this link . The tag is mpneast .

There’s still time to register for the Live Meeting Presentation on February 25th.  Register at http://tinyurl.com/azurebiz .   Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Windows , Azure , Cloud Computing , Business Practices , Partner , Neudesic , Information Concepts

In this interview, Chris Rolon, Architect Evangelist and Employee #1 at Neudesic , talks with Microsoft Partner Evangelist John McClelland, about his latest passion, Microsoft’s Azure offering for cloud computing. Chris discusses his experience migrating Quark Promote to the Azure Services Platform....