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Software development kit and language support for Microsoft Silverlight gives Microsoft’s global development community easy access to open platform for communications innovation

Have you received a Google Wave invite and wondered what the heck to do next? Gina Trapani (from Lifehacker) and Adam Pash have done a stellar job building a guide to where you'll learn how to use Wave to get things done with your group. The guidebook is a work in progress that will update in concert with Wave as it grows and changes.

Ah..the time has come for our @chuckstar to leave the Ribbit lily pad. With Chuck being a die hard Red Sox fan, I thought it would be nice to get Josh Beckett to say a little something to send him on his merry way, but Josh seems to be tied up in something called 'contract negotiations', so thought his little ditty from the von Trapp sisters was a good backup option..

On November 5th, Ribbit will be hosting a developer event in San Francisco where we will provide a whole new way for developers to mash-up real-time communications with their applications. We lovingly call these things 'Spawn'.

This morning the folks over at SxSW opened up the voting for the 1000's of panels that were submitted for the upcoming Interactive conference taking place in Austin, TX on March 12-16, 2010.

My boys have four sessions up for vote, and I would love your support to get them onto the final program. All it takes is clicking on one (or more) of the links below and clicking the thumbs UP icon next to their session title (you will need to sign up for a free SxSW account to vote).

When Designing Websites or Applications, Think About User Experience We caught up with Brendan Lee, Loni Peristere and Juan Bonfante at the recent CaT conference, and asked their opinions on the need for great user experience. It was no surprise, they all had some. :)