Fishbowl for Facebook is a WPF application created by Microsoft that takes advantage of some of the new Windows 7 features like jumplists and multitouch. Working like a WPF version of the Facebook site, you can do most of the same things you would do through a browser like status and comments, browse friend photos or upload your own, but with added functionality like dragging and dropping in new photos.

Download it for yourself at http://www.fishbowlclient.com/.

One of the new features we're announcing today at PDC is the Outlook Social Connector SDK. This is a new way to integrate social networking data into Office Outlook 2010. Too busy with the @Ch9Live show to tell you too much more but check out the video.

Windows 7 is a landmark product for Microsoft with support for things like sensors and multitouch. With just months (which quickly turned into weeks) to go until the show, it was decided that the best way to accelerate getting the hardware to support these new features in the hands of the developers would be to gift them a laptop at PDC. The problem was that there wasn't a retail laptop available that supported everything we wanted you to have, especially in a price point that would allow us to…[more ]

One of our most popular PDC speakers, Steve Marx, joins us today to talk about Azure and the cloud as he teases his PDC sessions. Think there isn’t much new in the last year, or that the news around Azure is purely going to be about the business model? Think again, and let’s get nerdy!

And don’t forget about our LIVE show on Friday, November 13^th at noon PST. We’ll be taking your questions from Twitter…live! You can ask for tips and t…[more ]

Today Microsoft released a Facebook SDK to make it easy for .NET devs to use the Facebook Open Stream API. The SDK supports apps in Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and Windows Forms. The Windows Developer Center has the download, how-to guides, a wiki, and sample code to get you started.

Now go create something cool (and let me know when you do).

How many times have you tried to copy a huge number of files only to accidently hit space or escape cancelling the transfer and you don't want to re-start from scratch? Well there's a better way to sync files between directories and drives, SyncToy. You might remember this from the XP PowerToys days, the ease of use makes it a very popular download. Deepa from the Sync team stopped by to show us the latest version, SyncToy 2.1.

You can find out more here, download it here, or give the team feedback here.

If you're a developer looking for a drop in monitor for coding Windows 7 Multitouch applications, 3M has a kit for you. This 19" monitor may seem very pricey at $1499, but keep in mind this is huge for a capacitive display. Normally monitors this large will have an optical tracking system for the touchpoints, leaving you with 2-4 touch points at best. This capacitive glass-front display is good for a full 10-point multi-touch experience. Check the site for more details and videos of the monitor in action.

Today a new experiment comes out of Redmond in the form of a new toolbar for Internet Explorer that analyzes the web pages you are looking at and applies what it sees to your social networks. This means the proper nouns and contextual references in the sites you're looking at are matched up to the things your friends might be talking about. So if you're browsing a movie review, you may see what a friend wrote about that movie as an inline contextual update.

Emre Kiciman and CK Wang from Microsoft Research joined us at the Channel 9 studio to talk about the Social Web toolbar and how it works. You can download the Social Web Experience Toolbar for IE here.

Charles Torre joins us today to discuss the Technical Leaders series to be held at PDC.  For the first time ever, you’ll get to participate in a perfect storm of intelligence, imagination, knowledge, and vision as we bring together Microsoft’s Technical Fellows for the Technical Leaders sessions at PDC09. These are the big brains that develop and drive technical strategies for Microsoft and the industry; if you want to be inspired, this is a series you won’t want to miss. Browse Technical Leaders sessions.

NBC and Microsoft are getting the band back together for a full Silverlight experience around the 2010 Winter Olympics. You'll have DVR control of the video, including rewind, sharing, and saving clips. There will be a Facebook Connect feature to allow you to socialize the insanity (or coolness, depending on your POV) of skiing with a rifle.

The site will also include Deep Zoom photo galleries so you can enjoy each flake of snow individually. More details to come as we get closer to the event. Related article from TechCrunch.