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Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. It reminds me of the old IRC channels you would join to ask questions on relevant technologies, just a thousand times better.
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Scott Samuels on November 19th, 2009

Microsoft has now opened up the SharePoint/FAST 2010 beta trial to anyone with a Windows Live login. If you don’t have one then you can sign up for one for free. Head to:

SharePoint 2010 beta (Enterprise) or SharePoint 2010 for Internet Sites Beta Enterprise – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx
FAST 2010 beta – http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/evalcenter/ee424282.aspx
SharePoint Designer 2010 Beta (32-bit) – [...]

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Scott Samuels on November 17th, 2009

The SharePoint 2010 beta and Office 2010 Beta 2 is now available for download  – if are a lucky and have an MSDN or TechNet Subscription…
If you do have a subscription, you can access it here:

TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/default.aspx
MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/aa570309.aspx

Get downloading!
UPDATE: 18 November 2009
Just a quick update based on the word on the street about the MSDN [...]

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Scott Samuels on September 16th, 2009

Services Applications are a new model in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Known as a Shared Service Provider (SSP) in MOSS 2007, a Service Application exposes functionality that has been configured for providing extended capabilities across site collections and Web applications or potentially across multiple SharePoint farms.
Key points on Service Applications

A service application can be implemented [...]

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