This is really cool, especially if you’re a 3D or virtual world fan, or a SharePoint geek – I love seeing the product used in new and interesting ways, and although I think the SharePoint user interface is pretty slick, I get charged up...

From CIO.com ’s Shane O’Neill: “If Microsoft … is going to tell large global enterprises how to roll out a social networking platform, the folks in Redmond sure as heck better do it themselves. So in the company's tradition of "eating your own dog...

BIT Advisors is hosting this seminar at the NY MTC on July 22nd – 9:00 am-12:30 pm: The future of productivity is here! Live Seminar at the Microsoft Technology Center Microsoft Business Intelligence expands the reach of your investments in the Microsoft...

Via USA Today : “ … Although the school's creative ambitions have been frustrated by high principal turnover, curriculum tensions and a student body unfamiliar with laptop computer culture, the school graduates its first senior class Tuesday with each...

A new case study based on work done at the NY MTC facility was published on May 27th. The customer is the Educational Computing Network of Ontario . “ The Educational Computing Network of Ontario (ECNO) wanted to modernize the human resources/payroll...

Warren Wilbee, Director US ISV Evangelism group sits down with Dean Bethke, MTC Director, Irvine to talk about Microsoft technolgy center(MTC) and what it offers to the customers and partners. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/sureshs/Microsoft-Technology...

SurfaceScapes is a proof-of-concept platform being developed by students at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) for playing tabletop role-playing games. Heir prototype was developed around playing D&D. Watch the video and notice...

On TechNet, Keith Ward has posted 77 Windows 7 Tips . A few cool ones that are new to me: Shift to and from Explorer and CommandPrompt . The classic Windows power toy Open Command Prompt Here is now an integral part of Windows 7 Explorer. Hold down...

Seven Web Application Toolkits are available for download at the MSDN Code Gallery . These toolkits are aim to provide web developers with resources (such as project templates, controls, code samples, and documentation) in a consistent packaged format...

Jason Beres has posted his slides from a talk he gave at the NY MYC: http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/jason_beres/archive/2009/09/16/silverlight-slides-and-code.aspx

Microsoft's new Thrive Community offers a place to learn new skills, look for new job opportunities, and connect with your peers. The web development track of the site has comprehensive list of resources in some of the newest and hottest Microsoft technologies...

From the site : In March 2009, Microsoft added a new option for developing web applications on the .NET platform: the ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0. You've probably heard quite a bit of buzz in the Microsoft web development community about it. But perhaps...

Doloto is a Microsoft Research project that has the goal of making Web 2.0 apps faster. "The goal of the project is to make Web 2.0 applications run faster," Livshits says. "This is a whole new area, as far as software development and how to optimize...

A few interesting posts caught my attention at InfoQ today: .NETZ – Compression and Packing for .NET Libraries " From the beginning, the .NET runtime had a decent packaging system based on a collection of assemblies. While far better than loose script...

The article talks about the Math Worksheet Generator that's built on top of Microsoft's Math Engine. This tool help teachers devise new match problems for their students: " Microsoft's Education Labs launched a new project this afternoon and it's better...

News about the latest WW Telescope release : "Examine astronomical data in unprecedented detail. Take a Web tour of the universe. Explore the heavens in 3-D. WorldWide Telescope keeps expanding its horizons. On Aug. 17, the External Research division...

Interesting article by Microsoft Research's Mary Czerwinski on the new ways that we might interface with computers in the future: Muscle Interfaces, Tongue-based interaction, Bionic Contact Lenses, etc. " The idea is that by freeing people from keyboard...

A very interesting article at the New York Times by Miguel Helft about Qi Lu , the President of Microsoft's Online Services Division [ Wikipedia ]: "Qi Lu knows as well as anyone just how difficult it is to take on Google. For nearly a decade, Mr. Lu...

Nigel Eccles, co-founder and CEO of Hubdub Ltd, guest blogs about the 'Customer Development Methodology' developed by Steve Blank, and outlined in his book ' The Four Steps to the Epiphany' at TechCrunch - Europe. Nigel discusses how he applied this to...

If you'll be visiting the New York MTC, or New York City in the not too distant future you might find this olfactory guide to the city either useful or entertaining: NYT: Scents and the City :-)

· Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog: SharePoint 2010 Partner Training for SharePoint 2007 Partners! “ SharePoint 2007 Partners: You’ve heard the buzz about SharePoint 2010 and seen the sneak peeks. Now learn how you can get ready to start building with and...

Two stories caught my eye recently regarding Social Networking (and Twitter specifically) – both stories appear on ArsTechnica : Malware, oversharing lead Marines to ban social networks "IT managers frequently voice their concerns about people's...

John TImmer's article Crowdsourcing the semantics of numbers with True # at ArsTechnica talks about True#, which is looking to put context around numbers that are represented as text. A very interesting idea. From ArsTechnica : " … Most of us can...

Interesting article at ComputerWorld : Open-source users revolt over OpenOffice.org's ribbon-esque UI talks about the implementation of the Ribbon UI in Open Office. There seems to be outrage by some in the Open Office community about using the ribbon...

Abel Avram posted about a pure .Net port of SQLLite3 to C# over at InfoQ " Noah Hart has ported SQLite3 to C#. While the first port is slower than the original, the project opens the way for SQLite to be used in .NET managed projects without using...