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One of my very old friends team just announced the dotNetShoutOut.com for the public. I was kind of aware of their ongoing development. Basically it’s a Digg like Web 2.0 social news site for the .Net related developers and re-searchers. Build on the KIGG open source platform. The dotNetShoutOut team is from Dhaka, Bangladesh and they have wide experience in several international social web 2.0 products. The leading developer Kazi Manzur Rashid is a recurring Microsoft Most Valuable Person. More details below..

Technology Integration:

• ASP.NET MVC
• MS Patterns & Practices – Enterprise Library (Logging & Caching)
• MS Patterns & Practices – Unity
• jQuery UI
• DotNetOpenId
• HtmlAgilityPack
• jQuery UI
• MarkItUp Editor

Whats New in v2.0:

• OpenID integration.
• Web page thumbnail.
• RSS/Atom.
• Captcha.
• Rich Story/Comment editor via Markdown.
• Both internal and external spam protection (Akismet, TypePad and Defensio) .
• Url shrinking.
• Sitemap including standard, mobile (Google only), news (Google only).
• Open Search.
• Mircroformats hAtom, hReview, hVote, xFolk etc.
• Karma point system for Users.
• Easy sharing with MSDN social, delicious, facebook and twitter.
• Vote Counter with customization (Check the bottom of this post).
• Live Writer Plug-in.
• BlogEngine.NET Extension.
• Both Community Server ICS Module and Graffiti Chalk.

The Screens:

The main interface

Wide range of login options

A posts detail screen

Promoters, Top Movers and Leaders listing

From Kazi Manzur Rashid’s Point of View:

DotNetShoutout is like eating one’s own dog food. Since, it has all these nice features and the controversies that are around with our primary source of .NET story, we decided why not run a site for our own community that solves these issues and keep you informed with the latest happening of .NET world. So dear reader, I am inviting you in the public beta release of DotNetShoutout.com. Please, tell us what you like, what you do not like, what you think can be improved or added. We are still working on some of the cool features which will be available in 1/2 weeks.

What can be Improved:
dotNetShoutOut is already a complete product but as usual there are possibility to have upgrades and enhancements.

• It’s time to focus on the web interface fine tuning. Currently most of the items looks a bit all together..
• Comments Captcha for logged in users are a bit uncomfortable. Since Akismet, TypePad and Defensio engine is already integrated. Is this really required for the logged in users
• Definitely need a facelift on their site logo.
• Sidebar options for the top posts on each categories
• Top movers or Leaders list in categories should be appended along with the top 10 posts of that category
• Drop down option for social sharing, in that way it would be possible to add more social network links
• Clearer site thumbnails if possible
• Assign Icons to categories and display the icon at the left side of the Post

Well these are very few things. Why don’t you make a move to the site and check it out and share your thoughts.