The last week has been hectic but great.  Here's what's up:

Last week was the Microsoft worldwide academic airlift.  It's a meeting in Seattle, WA, USA for all of the Microsoft academic representatives from around the world to come together and discuss plans for the future.  I had to present and discuss plans on theSpoke all day Tuesday and all day Wednesday, but the sessions were very useful, as I got to hear everyone's positive and negative feedback on theSpoke.  Alfred even posted about it.  We're now ready to finalize our plans for the site refresh and begin.  More info to come soon...

I also caught up with Martin at the Airlift. He's an academic evangelist based in Chicago (my home town) and has been blogging here recently.  Check out his posts and file uploads -- there's some great resources up there for Imagine Cup students.  They may help you in your project! 

Today we launched a web-based version of an Imagine Cup Information DVD we created a few months ago.  The DVD is now posted at http://imagine.thespoke.net/experience/.  Check it out -- there are pictures and videos from last year's finals in Brazil, including the short films that were made by the finalist teams on site in Brazil.  It's a cool way to experience what the Imagine Cup finals are like.  There's a section on theSpoke with theSpoke trailer there as well.  [Note: we tried to make this as low-bandwidth as possible for people viewing over dial-up, but there are some large videos there so it may take a while to load].  

Finally, does anyone want to re-write the FAQ page for theSpoke?  It's a bit out of date, and it'd be awesome to have someone in the community do it.  Comment or send me mail if you're interested...