Flickr Photo: Cubbie_n_ VegasI'm in DC -- well, Arlington -- for the next couple of days, giving a social media training. A few big things happened yesterday, but I spent most of it on airplanes. As it's currently 4:30 am, according to my body, I'm going to cop out and just give you guys a bunch of links to keep my daily blogging streak alive.

Here's the stuff I wish I had the wherewithal to write about today:

Microsoft announced today that it will make the source code for its .Net Framework freely available under its Shared Source license, essentially opening the source, rather than open sourcing, their popular development platform.

For those who accept the Microsoft Reference License -- the MS-RL, certainly not to be confused with the MS-PL or the MS-CL -- the source code will be available for download, but not modification.

The significance of this? Andrew Brust, Chief of New Technology at Twenty-Six New York, tells eWeek, "Being able to step through and review the source should provide much better insight into how the .Net Framework libraries are implemented, and in turn enable developers to build better applications and make even better use of them."