Angus Logan continues his torrential blogging spree - with a ton of details on Messenger Connect Check it out. Messenger Connect is now available - Angus Logan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs This post has links to the posts which are housed at the Windows Live blog...

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Angus Logan has posted about Microsoft’s effort to allow for data portability over the net with Windows Live Messenger Connect. From what I remember from conversations with Angus, the point is not creating YASN (yet Another Social Network) but giving you some tools to thread the ones you belong to together...

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I will be delivering a presentation titled Peanut “ Butter & Jelly: Putting Content Management Back into Context ”. The talk is not really about Content Management Systems themselves – but rather how the mere discussion of them can be a symptom of a larger problem. The talk will deal with the current...

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  What type are you? is a little piece that – via the power of psuedopsychoanalysis helps you determine what “type” you are – as in typeface… from the enduring design powerhouse. The password is Character

a couple of weeks ago, Rob and Scott , shared the news (via Twitter and email) that Telligent’s Graffiti CMS would be Open Sourced and that more news would be out on Dec 11. As promised, a few more tweets were made and the Graffiti CMS (presently powering this humble blog) is now on CodePlex . It is...

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There have been a few people chipping in trying to hit the LinkedIn API via .NET. There have been some issues with oAuth. Faith Yasar has posted the the most complete example I have seen . I am looking forward to giving this a spin tomorrow morning! Thanks in advance Faith....

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Tim Heuer has the definitive post on getting started with Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features . There was a bunch of stuff I am still digesting from PDC 09 – I need to get some time to think about OData – I know Pablo Castro was speaking about it in a session I think it was this one . All...

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Updated to include most of the Bob Muglia half – this is really just quick and dirty coverage. Ozzie Keynote Seesmic – Loic Lemur - will now be a development platform – Windows version you will be able to write plugins – also will release a Silverlight version, replacing their AIR app. Azure – will demo...

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I went on vacation in August and hit a little blogging dry spell. On the technical side, I was waiting for some things like SQL Azure and the F1 scene, well the whole Piquet/Briatore/Symonds cheat-o-rama really made my blood boil. Watching Nelson “just following orders” Piquet Jr. and his loving dad...

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  SQL Azure Team Announced the availability of the SQL Azure Database CTP. I am waiting, oh so patiently, for my token to arrive. For those who are not aware, this is a cloud implementation of SQL Server – yes a relational database in the cloud. Pricing you ask? 1GB database will run you $9.99....

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