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    Popfly - Building Mash-ups, Blocks, Pages in a Fun Community
    I've been following Popfly for a long time. It's come a long way (and 2 code names) to where it is today and it's good stuff! They have a cool editor in Silverlight for connecting blocks to create mash-ups, a web page editor, social networking to share...
    Silverlight (WAS: WPF/E) is Official
    The official name as well as site is now out for Silverlight, which used to be called WPF/E. Lookin' good! http://on10.net/Blogs/tina/out-with-wpfe-in-with-microsoft-silverlight-this-has-just-been-announced/ http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007...
    Best Comment on Slashdot EVER!
    I'm a Slashdot browser. I've never commented on anything thing and never will. Slashdot is 90% crap (mostly because of the comments left there). That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. That said, it's good to watch what goes on there...
    ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released
    I have to jump in with everyone else. Me too, me too! :D http://ajax.asp.net/ In the coming months you will see our platform pushed to Channel 9 and 10 and we use ASP.NET AJAX heavily. Hopefully I'll have time to work up some samples from our code...
    CES Content on Channel 10
    http://on10.net/tags/CES Keep checking back for more. We've got a lot of great stuff lined up! :)
    XNA Game Studio 1.0 Released
    I've been playing around with XNA a little bit in my free time. It's pretty darn easy to build a simple game with. You can debug it from your Windows machine while running on your Xbox 360, all good stuff! http://learnxna.com/archive/2006/12/11...
    WPF/E December CTP on Channel 9
    Awesome stuff. Check it out! :) http://channel9.msdn.com/playground/wpfe/
    Video Marketplace Launches on Xbox 360
    Major Nelson talks about it here: http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2006/11/22/video-marketplace-now-live.aspx I turned on my 360 today to find all kinds of cool new ways for me to spend some points. ;) It's pretty fabulous. They've got shows...
    Win Visual Studio 2005 (Team System Suite) and MSDN license
    http://addressof.com/blog/archive/2006/11/09/What-would-you-do-for-a-Visual-Studio-2005-_2800_Team-System_2900_-and-MSDN-license_3F00_.aspx Be creative!
    Soapbox Video and Invites on 10
    Laura posted a video all about Soapbox on 10. If you're not familiar Soapbox...think...YouTube. ;) Want to know how it's different than YouTube? Watch the video , then get an invite (which have been hard to come by as of late), courtesy of 10...
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