Sure, it’s a moving target, but all software releases are realistically moving targets (personally, I would rather have a stable environment and text-alignment that works than a rushed product out the door). Ashish Thapliyal has published a roadmap of the next releases of SilverLight, plus why some of the items (like GIF support) are missing and will be for a while.

Be forewarned — the differences between Beta 1 and Beta 2 will be drastic, according to him.

Designing applications for the Facebook and MySpace APIs have been all the rage (and the newest way to spam). Most of them aren’t very good because the designers don’t understand the nature of designing a limited user interface application, and frankly, the execution of most of the ideas has been poor or non-existent.

I’ve worked directly with the MySpace API team and am currently designing the user experience of several MySpace Applications (probably more of them on the current list than anyone else).

Here are some guidelines for designing MySpace applications.

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