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After the news about the .Net Facebook SDK, LinkedIn has released an API to integrate LinkedIn in your own applications. LinkedIn uses OAuth to authenticate.

“The LinkedIn API utilizes OAuth as its authentication method. OAuth is a standard model for negotiating developer authorization  and granting access on behalf of specific users for performing API requests. One of OAuth's strengths are the many third party and open source libraries that exist, allowing developers to authenticate with LinkedIn quickly and in a similar manner to how they may authenticate with services like Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Netflix.”

More info: http://developer.linkedin.com/

The Silverlight Toolkit November 2009 has been released on Codeplex. In my opinion, the most interesting addition is the BusyIndicator control, compatible with RIA services.

Check out the demo here.

via [Silverlight blog]:

“Today, at the PDC in Los Angeles, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Silverlight 4 beta, just four months after bringing Silverlight 3 to market. With the help of several customers we showcased the new features that will enable developers to create the highest quality media and RIA applications for the Web and desktop. These powerful new features offer developers significant benefits in rapidly creating rich software experiences, and include:

· Enhancements to Silverlight out-of-browser capabilities which enable high quality application experiences on the desktop;
· Advancements in business application development, including access to other Microsoft products like SharePoint 2010, Office, and Internet Information Services (IIS);
· The most amazing HD-quality video experiences on the Web with native multicast and offline DRM support.”

Get it here!

It’s available for msdn subscribers, the long awaited SharePoint Foundation Server 2010 beta and SharePoint Server 2010 beta!

Also Office 2010 client, Visio and SharePoint designer 2010 are available, so let the fun begin (or continue)!!

Via: http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/announcing-the-new-microsoft-sdk-for-facebook-platform/

“Today, as part of our ongoing collaboration with Facebook, we released a very exciting new developer resource: the Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform (http://www.microsoft.com/facebooksdk). This SDK combines the power of Web, client and social technologies to enable millions of developers to transform their imagination into next generation application experiences. We look forward to seeing the creative applications that developers will create for Facebook that will open up new avenues for users to share and connect with their friends.”