If you hurry you may be able to get on the private Beta of It’s a social network tool that let’s you stay connected with family and friends Go sign up .

This week the Microsoft Learning career express bus kicks off its Tech-Ed bound bus tour in Atlanta on Friday, May 1 . Join them (and me) at some of these key events, I think there will even be prizes! Ask the Experts at New Horizons Atlanta 3:00pm –...

Facebook and Twitter will fail as independent ventures. I love both (I have accounts on both. See my sidebar) but they will go the way of acquisition by a major player this year ( I am not stating that it will be Microsoft). They will be acquired not...

… you better figure out your IM technology strategy. I am seeing many ISVs trying to prepare for the new generation of users entering the workforce. Generation Y (more about them in future posts) are internet savvy in greater numbers than their Gen X...

Go get it: http://www.silverlight.net

Tim Sneath created a detailed hands on lab to get you started. Go get it and have some fun.

Silverlight Word 2007 document viewer on the Web. Kool   TextGlow

Can't go to Mix? It's sold out. But Watch the MIX08 keynotes streamed live real time over the internet on Wednesday, March 5th 9:30 AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time and Thursday, March 6th 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM Pacific Time by clicking on one of the following three...

I consult for MS customers for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server . You can find out our plans for Silverlight and SharePoint. Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint

Go check out what is happening! Heroes Happen Here

Scott G. the man, posts about Silverlight 2.0.

I have talked about Tafiti before, but I don't think I have let you know that the source code is available at CodePlex . You can download the source here .

No Express editions here. We're talking Professional versions. Know a student? Are you a student? Go find out more about DeamSpark   Microsoft DreamSpark

Nice new look and feel of the Silverlight Home page. Go take a look.

Quality code up on CodePlex called Video.Show . Here is the description of what you get: Designed to get you up and running quickly with minimal setup and configuration All video is hosted at Silverlight Streaming, which gives you 4GB storage and 700...

Brad Abrams has posted some more code. This time he walks you through using and customizing the ASP.NET Media Player control. Islands of Richness with Silverlight on an ASP.NET page

Ok, so maybe you don't believe how kool Popfy is. Maybe you need a nudge to go check it out. So here is my Mashup I created in about... 30 seconds in Popfly .

If you haven't checked out Popfly and my book on it, you are really missing some fun stuff. For example the new Silverlight Video playing control. (see the snapshot below).

New Silverlight Tutorial by Adam Kinney with source code. Silverlight 1.0 Bar Chart Tutorial

Nice article on how to convert graphics for use by Silverlight. Converting Clip Art to Silverlight XAML

And it is sweet. Home Server Rocks. I just set up my SharePoint Services 3.0 site (yes, its free software) for the family. GriffinNET is up and hosted right from my house. Yes, I know I am a geek.

Nice Silverlight Hosted comic book done by us. It is a promotion for our 2008 products from our launch site : Windows Server 2008 , Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 .

I was just playing around with Tafiti ( the Silverlight Search Front end). If you haven't checked it out do so. I especially like the Tree view of search results. Nice!

Just kicking around the LOC site that I mentioned in an earlier post . Check out the live Silverlight Map at the library of congress. Waldseemüller Maps

Just ordered my Dell hardware for my Windows HomeServer OEM software. If you are a geek like me this was a must have. I have six computers at home for my wife and five kids. I need unified backup and file and printer sharing without allot of hassle. Go...