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Winners of Learning the Yahoo! UI library Book Competition
Thanks to the friendly people of Packt we are giving away 5 books!; Learning the Yahoo! UI library. Take a look to see the correct answer and if you're one of the lucky winners. Read MoreFirst SP1 betas for VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft issued a first beta release of
Service Pack (SP) 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and the accompanying .Net
Framework 3.5. for all interested parties. This SP comes out with many significant improvements and additions including new features for targeting Windows, Office, and the Web, improved performance in the WPF, more controls, a streamlined setup, powerful new graphics features for client development and rich data
scaffolding and many more.
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Microsoft launched Messenger TV
Microsoft launched Messenger TV, a European innovation that enables MSN users to watch videos and chat on Windows Live Messenger at the same time. Microsoft concluded video content agreements in the UK with Channel 4 and EMI along with European advertisers including Twentieth Century Fox and Pepsi.
Read MoreMicrosoft Launched WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft launched WorldWide Telescope Public Beta, a free web-based program that allows visitors to explore galaxies, star systems, and distant planets. This new RIA brings together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes including Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Read MoreYahoo! ASTRA 1.2 Now Available
Yahoo! fired out a new update to the Yahoo! Astra libraries for Flash, Flex and ActionScript, ASTRA 1.2. This release includes updates to the Flash components, the removal of the Flex Maps hack from the Web APIs library (use the new Yahoo! Maps AS3 API instead), and the addition of the new Astra Utilities library.
ASTRA is Yahoo! ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilities developed for ActionScript developers. Read MoreGoogle Released Friend Connect Beta
Google launched a preview of Friend Connect, a web service that allows you to add social features to a Web site without programming.
"The Web is getting better by getting more social. We've baked social
features into the infrastructure of the Web, and it is not tied to any
particular site," said David Glazer, director of engineering at Google. "Users can interact with any of their
friends anywhere they go on Web, and with any app."
Mini-review & Competition Learning the Yahoo! UI library
We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library. The friendly people of Packt are giving away 5 books! Read MoreWinners of Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Book Competition
Thanks to the friendly people of friends of ED we are giving away 5 books!; Foundation ActionScript 3.0 with Flash CS3 and Flex. Take a look to see the correct answer and if you're one of the lucky winners. Read MorejQuery UI 1.5 Last Beta Released
jQuery Development team announced the release of Query UI 1.5b4, the last beta release before the release candidate. This release comes out as mainly a stability one with more than 50 bugs fixed, also featuring effects and a new domain.Read More