Microsoft releases SDK for Facebook

Microsoft has released a software developer kit for FACEBOOK that'll allow developers to create facebook like applications for Silverlight and WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). This'll help developers to build social application in much more easier manner.

This SDK is having samples, tools, source code for API, components, controls to develop FACEBOOK application in ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, and WinForms.

If you're interested in taking a look, you can download the SDK here.

Talk about offshoring??

In today’s world, for the software industry – ‘Offshoring’ and ‘Outsourcing to India’ – are synonyms. So if somebody is talking about offshoring, they are basically talking about outsourcing to India unless specified otherwise. Not to say that things are not changing – there are other countries like China and Vietnam who are picking up more and more work from the US. But they still have a long way to go because of the unique advantages that India has.
But, to SeaCode Inc, offshoring means three miles off the coast of the US. What San Diego-based start-up SeaCode Inc. plans to do is nothing if not novel: anchor a cruise ship three miles off the coast of Los Angeles, fill it with up to 600 programmers from around the world, eliminate visa restrictions and make it easy for customers to visit the site via water taxi.
I won’t make a comment on whether they will be successful or not – since I am not yet clear if this is their entire business model or have they refined it further. But this idea is definitely interesting. Read the story here.