After an unsuccessful bid to compete with the most prolific marketplace for DotNetNuke modules and skins, DNN Corp announced yesterday that it acquired Snowcovered.com for an undisclosed sum. As part of the acquisition, Snowcovered’s founder Brice Snow will lead the transition and integration effort and join DNN Corp’s business advisory board. For more details on the takeover and what it means for customers, vendors, and the community, read this blog post by DNN’s Chief Architect Shaun Walker.

More DNN news from the last few weeks:

• DNN Corp has completed it’s first major reshuffling of personal in years, which is now broken down into trustees, team members, and employees.
• DNN Corp also announced its Fusion Partner Program, which initially did not fare so well with the community and was therefore quickly revised.
• Almost drowning in all of the above, DNN Corp added the DotNetNuke Elite Edition to its product offerings. See how it compares to Professional Edition.
• And the final news item on the Corp front is the launch of premium Developer Support Services. Unlike the product side, these services are competing directly with community-based system integrators and consultants, such as ourselves and many others, who have traditionally provides most of these services. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
• Mitchel Sellers publishes his second “best practices” guide. This time around he focuses on module / extension development. He also paid a visit to the PowerDNN hosting facilities. Interesting read.
• Mike van der Meulen thinks that the installer should present / force a back-up reminder before upgrading the database. Great idea.
• After moving to Colorado, Chris Hammond founded the Denver DNN User Group with a first meeting scheduled for October.
• And speaking of Chris, Joe Brinkman reviews DNN 5 User’s Guide, a new book authored by Chris Hammond and Patrick Renner and published by Wrox.
• As a follow-up to his Multi-Factor Authentication Provider, Brandon Haynes publishes a  whitepaper “detailing the high-level motivation and approach involved in the creation” of said provider.
• Have you ever struggled to explain DNN and the concepts behind it to friends, colleagues or clients? Fret no longer as Nik Kalyani put together a neat presentation in story format introducing DNN in a non-technical way. Well done.

In the last few weeks we have seen the first bold moves from DNN Corp after its internal reorganization. As long-time community members, what’s your take on the recent developments? Do you welcome these changes, have your your doubts about DNN Corp’s direction, or it does not affect you at all?