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Do you have a Facebook account and want to do more with it? Start creating cool, fun Windows and Web applications with the Facebook Developer Kit. The toolkit offers a huge amount of easy-to-use set of drag 'n drop controls. Easy to run samples and easy to follow QuickStart documentation to help you get started.

The Library of Congress manages the world’s largest reserve of historical documents and artifacts, and it is always looking for new ways to use technology to elevate the learning experience for visitors and nonvisitors alike. The Library accomplished this mission when it teamed with Microsoft and two technology partners to complete work on its New Visitors Experience project.

Program Manager Steve Marx sits down with us to discuss what Windows Azure means for developers. The basic idea is to make it really simple for developers to deploy web applications and services without having to worry about scaling, management.

Microsoft targets Amazon's EC2 service with Azure technology, Ray Ozzie says at PDC show.

Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp.'s chief software architect, today detailed Windows Azure, a cloud computing version of its operating system that the software vendor says will enable developers to build and host online services on a Windows-based IT infrastructure.

As the Halloween is approaching, it’s best time to spice up your design with some quick Halloweenish icons. And since we are, apparently, smashing and the Halloween is all about pumpkins, we decided to release Smashing Pumpkins: A Free Halloween Vector Icon Set.

The IT security function, as a percentage of total IT staff at enterprise organizations, appears to be in decline, according to an addendum on security in a research report released this week by Computer Economics.

Strange things are going on in the lab of Gary Flake. Can this Web geek make Microsoft come alive?

"Can I get you a Coke?" Bill Gates asked.

It was 2005, and Gary William Flake, the head of research for Yahoo, was visiting Microsoft. Finally. Senior executives had been calling for a year, trying to coax him to come meet a few people, hear them out.

Amazon.com on Thursday launched in beta an online service that hosts third-party developers' Web applications on Microsoft's Windows Server and SQL Server database.

The offering is the latest in Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, service, which the company launched out of beta Thursday.

Everyone who hasn’t encountered designer’s block, raise your hand. Just as I thought. Well then, chances are you could use some places to get inspiration for those days when the pixels aren’t aligned and your mouse finger isn’t clicking like it should.

Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats.