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Every time there is a MVP renewal there are always some tweets or posts from people not being re-awarded, but this New Year re-awarding cycle was different: a few vocal and prominent community members didn't get re-awarded. Most of them were MVPs because of their OSS projects, so conspiracy theories started about Microsoft dropping his support to Open Source, and the bashing game started. Contributes to the community because you like it, not because of the incentives You should contribute to the community because you love doing it. Not because of the incentives MS gives you with the MVP program. I love doing...

I just learnt that I’ve be invited to join the ASPInsiders. I’m really excited and honored to be part of this group of great ASP.NET experts. Looking forward to help with my feedbacks the ASP.NET team build a better web application framework on the .NET platform, especially in the area of ASP.NET MVC. If don’t know who they are, here is a quick “elevator speech”, taken from the site: “The ASPInsiders is a select group of international professionals who have demonstrated expertise in ASP.NET technologies and who provide valuable, early feedback on related...

Microsoft communities just released to the world a public beta version of Tagspace: Tagspace* is a social bookmarking service for software professionals** that encourages sound sleep and sweet dreams by enabling you to be better informed, better connected, and more productive. The more you use Tagspace, the more you'll wonder how you survived for so long in the cramped quarters of your Web browser's Favorites folder.Source: Introducing Microsoft Tagspace Is it just another del.icio.us clone or will it really have something more "software professionals oriented" as said by Korby Parnell, a product manager in the Microsoft.com Community Technologies Team? Along with tagspace...