{"id":11573,"date":"2011-02-04T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/02\/04\/the-2010-niney-award-nominees-have-been-announced\/"},"modified":"2011-02-04T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T07:00:01","slug":"the-2010-niney-award-nominees-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110204-01\/?p=11573\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2010 Niney Award nominees have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nominees for the first (annual?) <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/TheChannel9Team\/The-Niney-are-coming-VOTE-NOW\"> Niney Awards<\/a> have been announced. The Nineys are an award which recognizes those who have had the greatest impact on the technical\/developer community over the past year. Winners are selected by you, the technical\/developer community.\n The winners will be announced at the <a href=\"http:\/\/live.visitmix.com\/\"> MIX11 conference<\/a> in April. But before they can announce winners, they need to collect votes.\n That&#8217;s where you come in.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoomerang.com\/Survey\/WEB22BQU9KHP5G\/\"> Cast your vote online<\/a> in the following categories: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Favorite     <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Browse\/Shows\/\">     Channel 9 Show<\/a> (video) of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite     <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Browse\/Series\/\">     Channel 9 Series<\/a> (video) of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Community Show (video) of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Twitter User of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Most Helpful Niner of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Channel 9 Video of the Year for 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite New Microsoft Technology or Product for 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite CodePlex Project of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Microsoft Blogger of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Blog About Microsoft of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Audio Podcast of 2010 <\/li>\n<li>Favorite Web Site Design of 2010 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> Now, it so happens that among the nominees is an author of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/12\/07\/1233002.aspx\"> a somewhat unsucessful book on programming<\/a> (not to be confused with an author of several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/?field-author=Mark+Russinovich&amp;node=5&amp;tag=tholneth-20\"> successful books on programming<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerodaythebook.com\/\"> to-be-published novel<\/a>) but please don&#8217;t let that distract you from voting for whoever you feel best deserves to win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominees for the first (annual?) 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