Sonu Kapoor the owner of http://dotnetslackers.com wrote an initial version of Kigg, a Digg clone using ASP.NET MVC. I happened to check back at the source code after I noticed that http://www.dotnetshoutout.com looked exactly like what I remember...
So with the recent news of LINQ to SQL going DOA a lot of those who have developed applications around it are probably hurting. I myself was shocked to hear that Microsoft would do such a foolish thing. This is one of the things that turns off people...