Interesting new ASP.Net 3.5 website - The Chopping Block

Some friends of mine have just launched an interesting site.  It's called The Chopping Block (http://www.choppingblock.com.au/), and it is designed to cash in on Australia's love of talking about sport.  Users can vote and comment on who should be in or out of various professional sporting teams, as well as decide who the greatest players of all time are in various sports.

I'm not even remotely interested in any form of sport, but I have had a click through the site and I'm quite impressed from a technological point of view. Everything is AJAXed, the voting integrates cleverly with the comment functionality, and the design has that very nice Web 2.0 feel.  It's worth signing up and chopping/championing players from a few teams just to play with the interface.

The site was the first project these guys have done using VS2008 and ASP.Net 3.5.  Apparently the many small productivity enhancements in 2008 and 3.5 combined to make building the site much more fun (it is essentially a hobby for them at this stage) and also made the build significantly quicker.