Anith Gopal

Convergence 2010 , the premier Microsoft Dynamics conference is here shortly (April 24-27) and this year the event is organized a little differently, beginning on a weekend and with a virtual partner day.

Architect Innovation Café is a set of 60-minute Software Architect-focused Webcast to educate on the latest trends/topics and how new technologies can align with your business needs.  Two sessions are offered this week that are of interest.

ARCast.TV – Scaling Facebook Applications with Windows Azure How do you meet the unknown scalability requirements for viral social networking Facebook applications? Thuzi is a Microsoft partner who has created a framework for delivering viral social networking campaigns via Facebook using Windows Azure , ASP.NET MVC , and the Facebook .NET SDK . They launched on November 5th (before release at the PDC) and had grown Outback’s fan base to over 450k in a matter of days via an innovative Facebook offer…( read more )

February 26, 2010 at 1:00pm – 2:00pm EST Title: How to Architect a Killer App for Windows 7 Abstract: Ever since its recent launch, Windows 7 has been enjoying rapid consumer adoption and glowing press reviews. This makes it a great platform to launch your next Killer App! In this session, we will explore how to architect an application to take advantage of several compelling Windows 7 features including multi-touch, integrated search and multi-processor improvements.

I’ve been giving some thought to how I can better leverage various communications and social media to help promote the great work that folks in the Microsoft Developer Community (and beyond) are doing, and one of the channels I’ve been using is Twitter . For those of you who might not be aware, I’m on Twitter as devhammer , and I also have another account, CommMegaphone , which I use primarily for new event notifications when events are added to Community Megaphone .