Microsoft announces ‘Visual Studio Achievements’ for developers. Badges, points and a leaderboard to track your unlocked achievements.

Orkut badges let you show off in the best way possible. There are badges for Early users, Trend Setters, Graduates and Strong Contributors.

StumbleUpon has released a new set of dynamic badges for websites. The StumbleUpon badges will allow users to submit content to SU and also display a live count of real-time hits from StumbleUpon.