TranslateIntermedia has started to Sponsor two of the Spiceworks Community groups MS Exchange and Unified Communications.
They are currently providing some cool information on hosted exchange 2010 email.
In the past there has been lots of talk about getting a chat system into the community and finally we are seeing the start of it.
If you now go to the the Water Cooler Forum directly you can see a Spiceworks Chatroom Box
Nic is trying out having a chat frame in the Water Cooler forum directly, to gauge how much usage it will get (as well as how rowdy it becomes 
If it does turn out to be something useful, he said hell look into setting up something more fully featured.
Mark Southall and his company has made a GREAT gadget for vista sidebar or windows 7.
My company’s helpdesk wanted a quick way to check the tickets that were open on the system, without needing to open up web pages. Having found nothing during our search for a gadget to do that, I wrote one to connect to our database.
Originally it was just intended for use within the company, as it was originally hard coded. However I have now made modifications to the gadget and it is available to the community to use.