You don’t need to be a developer to create mashups or FaceBook apps. Dan Fernandez demonstrates creating a FaceBook app in minutes using an alpha release of PopFly. It is built on Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. With tools such as these, brace yourself for a flood of FaceBook apps coming your ...

I was over at the Halo 3 launch party at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus and ran into Dan Fernandez, lead product manager for Visual Studio, demonstrating Popfly. It’s an alpha version of an easy-to-use mashup platform that allows consumers to easily create web services with multiple data sources, and embed ...

Brad Abrams of Microsoft fame talks about WPF and Silverlight and what’s in it for independent software vendors (ISVs). He talks about .Net and dynamic languages running cross-platform (including Windows, Mac and Linux) and even talks briefly about Surface development.

After a long day at the Microsoft Server & Tools Business Analyst Summit, hosted during day zero of this year’s Microsoft TechEd, James and Cote review what they heard from Microsoft and give some late-night analysis of: