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Brad Abrams to demo Silverlight in action in Second Life Microsoft Island Theater

Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager, .NET Framework and developer technology enthusiast will be on the Second Life Microsoft Island Theater on Thursday, August 30th, 3 PM SLT. He has grown up with the .NET Framework from the early days of just getting Fibonacci to work on the first CLR before Console. WriteLine() was written. Nowadays, Brad’s work is about ASP.NET, AJAX,

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CJReport.com launches

A Big Congratulations goes to my fellow friend Laurent Van Winckel from Brussels in Belgium and his colleague Prameya Bhandari from Syracuse, New York. As they as founders of CJReport.com have finally launched CJReport.com live (previously yunar.com) CJReport.com is a citizen journalism website which is purely democratic. The CJReport.com Founders hope that with this new democratic news system, they can stop governments and authorities around

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Reading Music Festival 2007 Review

Hey all – did you miss me? 🙂 I’m now back from Festival Republics Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds Music Festival 2007 and what a great time it was, though I must say I didn’t enjoy the Sunday night riots in the camp sites too much, there were quite a lot of gas canisters exploding on fires and groups of

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Bebo becomes first social network to integrate with Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Contacts

Bebo, the global social networking site, and Microsoft today announced an alliance to bring the Windows Live Messenger service, the world’s largest consumer instant messaging (IM) network, to Bebo users. Additionally, Bebo and Windows Live will allow users to seamlessly exchange their contact information to invite and connect through their respective services. This deal marks the first time Microsoft has

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Bloggers to Unite on Blog Action Day

An international initiative of bloggers known as “Blog Action Day” launched today, with the aim of uniting thousands of blogging voices, talking about one issue for one day. This year on Blog Action Day, which is slated for Oct. 15, 2007, bloggers will be discussing the environment.

Major blogs have signed up to participate, including Lifehacker, Dumb Little Man, Lifehack.org, Get

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Mean Fiddler becomes Festival Republic

It’s been reported by efestivals that The Mean Fiddler Music Group has sold most of its venues, and rebranded itself as ‘Festival Republic’. The venues – the Borderline (300 capacity), Jazz Café (300 capacity), The Garage (500 capacity), the Old Fiddler, Harlesden (600 capacity), G-A-Y Bar (310 capacity) and G-A-Y Late Club (300 capacity) – have been sold to Mama

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Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 less than 10 days away!

Reading and Leeds Festival 2007 is less than 10 days away and I’m so excited I can’t wait. I’ve got most of the stuff I am taking now. Just got to wait for my tent to be deliverd as well as the tickets as I won the tickets in the Windows Live Sessions Fan Competition last year so once Microsoft/MSN have

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Windows Live Hotmail gets updated to 5GB of space

Great news Windows Live Hotmail Users and Fans, the Windows Live Hotmail Team have launched a new update to Windows Live Hotmail.  This newly released update features many new features and improved performance which people will be really happy to see, some of my most looked forward features have been included like duplicate contact merging, vacation replies and an option

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