I’ve been giving a fair amount of attention to Google’s OpenSocial platform over the past week. Here are some initial thoughts

You can build OpenSocial apps as Google Gadgets or on your own.
Gadgets can be easily added to iGoogle and Orkut. Not sure how other sites will handle these.
Orkut, Ning, and [...]

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I’ve been playing with VS2008 over the holiday weekend and have to say I love it. The more I dig into Linq, the more I think of all the possibilities it opens up both for rapid extensibility and ease of development. Below’s a quick example…
var userNames = from user in users select user.name, user.email where [...]

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The unfathomable tragedy of this story speaks for itself A 13-year-old girl was driven to suicide because of the cruel words of one of her friends.
Yes, it was “only MySpace.” Yes, kids can be cruel, whether it is face to face, or over the Internet, and teenage boys are no exception. But [...]

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