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Designers And Developers: Donate Your Time, Talent At New England GiveCamp, June 11-13, 2010

One of the things I found out about at Tuesday’s MSDN Northeast Roadshow stop in Augusta is the first New England GiveCamp, June 11-13 at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development center in Cambridge, MA. I’m attending, and I’d urge you to do so. A GiveCamp is basically a gathering of developers, DBAs, project managers, designers [...]

RSS Feeds Now Show Full Entries

As I’ve finally gotten the hang of Google Reader, I see the value in having full posts, and not just excerpts, available from an RSS feed. It’s so 2000-and-late to think in terms of whether a Web site is “sticky,” and even in terms of SEO; it makes far more sense to think in terms [...]

It’s Time For Facebook – Or, At Least, Someone – To Vet Third-Party Applications

It’s no mystery to anyone who’s been on Facebook for more than a week that one of its biggest boons — and, in the finest Zen tradition, one of its most nagging banes — is the plethora of third-party applications that leverage its data. Virtually all the value in Facebook is crowdsourced — that is, [...]