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For all the talk in DC about transparency in government, that seemed (at least in my sense) to really come to the forefront of everyone’s attention with the House Rules on social media use issue last July, then escalated with the Senate, the bailouts and finally the election of one of the most social media savvy presidents ever, the status quo has been largely wishing for transparency and talking about it.

Microsoft is clearly getting hipper with their offerings. The company that has been notoriously committed to offline products, like their Windows operating System and productivity suite, Microsoft Office, to the detriment of their online offerings seems to definitely be moving into the internet space more. They are, in fact, trying to own the online space now which is a significant internal company departure from the past.

As recently as yesterday, speculation was that the ill-branded Live! Search could be rebranded in a much more internet friendly way. Kumo.com anyone? Their IM client… well, no one uses it.

It has been a long time since I got downright giddy about something developer-oriented. Lots of new APIs are coming out all the time and I usually take a once over look at them to determine if there is something cool there. A lot of time there are cool things and I promise myself to come back and explore the possibilities later. I rarely do.

The Zend Framework has a new member (albeit incubating at the moment). That new member is the Akismet API. Source: Akismet.
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Written by Aaron Brazell on February 8, 2007

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I won’t use this. At least not right now. With national, and international reaches, I’m sure someone in Brisbane, Australia could care less if it is raining and 40 degrees here.
But perhaps I’m just not creative enough to see what kind of important uses can be derived.
What am I referring to? The National Weather Service [...]