227 unread entries this morning. Boston Geek Dinner is tonight.

Other

• LiveMeeting Presentation Tutorial, Brent Ozar
• Why Microsoft gets a bad name with Support and Why Microsoft gets a bad name with Support (part 2 - no you cannot escalate), Brian Johnston
• Is there any real need for application virtualization?, Alessandro Perilli
• Warming a Cold Pool, Nicholas Allen
• The irritation of bad names, Jon Skeet
• How do I expose configuration information through MEF?, Glenn Block
• When To Use Interfaces, Fred Westrom
• Securing Your Agatha Service Layer, Davy Brion
• Everything You Need To Know About The iPad, Leena Rao
• My Technology Radar for 2010, Dave Smith
• NDepend v3 is now 100% integrated in Visual Studio., Patrick Smacchia

From CodePlex Feed

• Windows Azure twitter clone

Data Access

• Passing around an ObjectContext: by value or reference?, Julie Lerman

Web

• Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series), Scott Guthrie
• Add a Google Reader Shared Items widget to any site with jQuery, Dan Hounshell

Silverlight

• New Silverlight Client for Facebook: I Can’t Believe This is Facebook, Darrell Etherington
• Fluent Silverlight – Binding control events to actions, Gabriel N Schenker

Database

• How to restore to another database with full text index, Morten Lyhr
• Data as Strategy, Buck Woody
• Sometimes it's the small things : match column names in subqueries, Aaron Bertrand
• Question: Is NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM a sysadmin in your SQL Server and Why?, Jonathan Kehayias

Security

• Attack Vector Recycling?, cjohnston

Cloud Computing

• Cisco announces IaaS cloud offering for service providers, Alessandro Perilli
• Windows Azure User Group Briefings, Andrew Coates
• Try Windows Azure at No Charge, Windows Azure
• An op for Microsoft to nail the low hanging fruit: Cloudify every app’s settings/config, Andrew Connell
• SOA and cloud by the numbers: what the data tells us so far, Joe McKendrick
• Azure in Australia, Criag Bailey

Career

• The Small Suggestion that Yielded Big Results, Freelance Switch
• 9 Business Lessons From Celebrities, Amber Singleton Riviere
• JobDeck: Twitter Work Search from the TweetDeck Team, Darrell Etherington
• The secretGeek Disaster Recovery plan, Leon Bambrick

Business

• The Top 5 Things That Business School Did Not Teach Me, Barry Moltz
• Importance of Employee Engagement, Mike Myatt

Innovation

• 14 Key Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations, Jim Carroll
• “Innovation in a Collaboration World” – the other side of the coin with #innochat on 28 Jan 2009 – 12pm EST, Boris Pluskowski
• I’m a Solver – Scott Fisher, Manal Khan
• Does the Apple iPad Make Strategic Sense?, Scott Anthony
• The most powerful innovation tools, Jeffrey Phillips

Community

• Speaking at the Baltimore SQL Server User Group, Joe Webb

Other link blogs

• Dew Drop – January 27, 2010 and Dew Drop – January 28, 2010, Alvin Ashcraft
• Daily Cloud Feed - Jan 27, 2010, Cloud Feed
• Community Convergence LX, Charlie Calvert
• The Morning Brew #527, Chris Alcock