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Following months of nominations and voting, the winners of this year's .net Awards have been chosen. You'll find a list of the winners below, and in this month's .net magazine you'll find interviews with the winners! (Plus the usual top notch .net fare.)

Whooooww....sooooooo funny!

From the page: "Amazing set of 90 free vector icons, all in one EPS file. Enjoy and share this beautiful file with others, but please try to save the image on your server if linking to this file. Image is more than 1 MB and will heavy load my traffic if every one of you will link to it. Thank you!

This set is ideal for creating web 2.0 icons, buttons and everything that your imagination can handle.

Because the image is to big, and will make the page load slow, please read the full post to view and download this wonderful 90 free vector icons set."

The web2.0 identity website

Definr.com is a fast, free dictionary based on Princeton's open WordNet
2.0.

The website framework is Ruby on Rails. Looking up words in a dictionary is
easy, so we do that with MySQL and cache the top 10,000 definitions in
memory.

Doing word completion (a.k.a. auto-complete, auto-suggest, globbing) is not
easy, at least not when you have to search through 200,000 words for every
keystroke. So our word completion is done in a C module for Ruby, and the word
completion server is separate from the rest of the site.

With the DefinrBot algorithm, we can do 190,000 word completions per second
without caching, and that translates to about 10,000 completions per second
once the Ruby layer is factored in.

From the page: "Andrew Keen is one of the most hated people on the internet. The reason for bloggers� anger is his Web 2.0-critical book, The Cult of the Amateur. The self-proclaimed �oeAntichrist of Silicon Valley” explains what all the fuss is about."

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Awesome Article

From the Page: "I'm going to show you how to sidestep your habits and assumptions and
use patterns to make better design decisions. A lot of fancy stuff has
been written about patterns. To be simple and clear in this
introduction, I'll just call them chunks."

List of web2.0 related websites