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I was browsing for the best web 2.0 apps recently, when I found a category winner: Linked In.

I’m not much for signing up for fad apps all the time, but I was interested in the connections that Linked In claimed to offer. It’s difficult to explain the overall purpose of the site, but here goes:

• People Search - Name search, find an employer or future employee
• Keep in touch for former colleagues or classmates
• Use Outlook to help track people in your Linked In account

The coolest feature I found was a search for people you went to university with that are also linked in. Helping you find out how your long lost buddies are doing these days (or how you can do better).

Sure enough, after uploading my address book I found that there two of my friends are also Linked In. Through those contacts, I am also linked to more than 300 other professionals. I don’t know what I’m going to do with those connections yet… Sometimes it’s not what you know it’s who you know (and who they know!).

I don’t normally rave about little things like backgrounds, icons or mouse cursors… But my latest preview with Vista RC1 showed me that the mouse cursors look cool. So I wanted to get them, knowing that someone out there would have made them for other windows systems. And they have. Sweet.

• Download Vista Aero Mouse Cursors from Guru Design

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How cool is this? Would have come in handy a few years ago when I was designing software for a Digital Jukebox…

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