In searching for some example Facebook contests, I came across the official guidelines and some commentary regarding Facebook contests.

In the past two weeks, Google has released the "Google Apps Search" and has started testing their Live Updating Google search feature as of this week.

Earlier this summer Microsoft released a new set of Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010, which included a number tweaks and improvements to the program.

On August 6, Facebook announced that the width of all custom tabs would be changed to 520px - down from the previous 760px.

In the midst of the suggested follower options on both Facebook and Twitter, Google Buzz has decided to follow suit and add a new "Who to Follow" feature on the site.

Comment spam sucks for everyone, but there's a service for that - Akismet.

jQuery has just announced that later this year they will be releasing a mobile optimized version of jQuery that will be targeted at a broad range of mobile devices.

Love them or hate them, you've gotta respect them!

Here is a list of some custom filters offered by Google Analytics that can be quite helpful in filtering results.

Twitter has just released their officially supported "Retweet" button that will allow site visitors to easily share content via their Twitter feed. 

The Twitter API is something that you may have learned to love and hate over the last while, but as of August 16th, you may have to change the way you access it. 

In my research of Social Media Optimization, I have come across 5 Guideline Rules that should be followed if you are looking to make the most of your networks.

If you're an entrepreneur, you've probably heard the term Big Hairy Audatious Goal.  Well, I've come up with a new term to describe the equal and opposite force on a business.

Share This has launched a Beta Program for it's upcoming Social Media Stream Widget

When initializing a collection to a known set of values, C# provides a bit of syntactic sugar to cut down on your typing.

Found a great video explaining how UGC (User-Generated Content) has helped some major brands become more user friendly.

Here are some great links to snippets when using Visual Studio 2010.  Seems to save a lot of time for all developers!

The .NET Framework did not provide any built-in functionality for creating or consuming syndication feeds until version 3.5 with the introduction of the System.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace.

According to CNET, Microsoft will begin selling their cloud service, Azure, as an appliance.  Hardware manufacturers, such as HP and Dell, will be able to host and sell Azure from their own data centers.

Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform, is ready for primetime. When we think of cloud-based infrastructures, it has many pieces that make it both viable and attractive from many points of view.