The top 100 sites in Portugal. The sites in the top sites lists are ordered by their 1 month alexa traffic rank.
The 1 month rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors and pageviews over the past month. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.

1.google.pt
2.youtube.com
3.facebook.com
4.google.com
5.live.com
6.hi5.com
7.sapo.pt
8.blogger.com
9.msn.com
10.wikipedia.org
11.yahoo.com
12.xl.pt
13.abola.pt
14.iol.pt
15.wordpress.com
16.microsoft.com
17.livejasmin.com
18.bp.blogspot.com
19. olx.pt
20.clix.pt

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/PT

When you buy a domain name from a registrar, you are usually given the option to specify how many years you want to register it for. After that, you can transfer your name to a web hosting company that will either build and host your website, or just host it.

When you “buy” a domain name, you’re actually just leasing it for the period of time you paid for when you registered it. As that period nears its end, a series of stages occurs which ends in the domain name being “deleted”.
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Visual Studio 2010 is an integrated development environment that simplifies the entire development lifecycle, from design to deployment.

available on MSDN

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus.

The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions. While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

The Services in SharePoint 2010 Products poster has a table detailing the services available in Foundation and Server so this may be worth a look: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=167090

Short but sweet, Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 will launch on Monday, 12 April 2010.

http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2010/01/13/9948172.aspx

Last year SharePoint conference in Las Vegas has been one of the best conferences I’ve ever been. Not only was it great to meet the SharePoint Community whom for a majority I only knew from Twitter, Blogs, FaceBook or other virtual social networks but also the sessions and information shared were from a high quality. That’s where the idea was born to create the very first SharePoint eMagazine.

A free magazine for IT-Pro’s, Developers and End (power) Users and optimized to read in eReaders.

Download High Resolution

Download eReader pdf

http://www.sdn.nl/IW/FreeMagazine/tabid/139/Default.aspx

Want to demonstrate the latest beta of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 in an information worker scenario to customers?

Download the two newest virtual machines (VM) with pre-configured versions of Office 2010 Beta and SharePoint 2010 Beta from the Microsoft Download Center.

In order to run this demo you will need the following hardware:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 with the Hyper-V role enabled
- Intel VT or AMD-V capable processor
- 8 GB or more RAM
- 50 GB of NTFS-formatted hard disk space required for install

Download

Sketching and prototyping are proven techniques that enable you to explore ideas and concepts quickly without excessive investment in either time or resources.

SketchFlow revolutionizes how quickly and efficiently you can demonstrate your vision for an application. It provides an informal and quick way to explore, iterate and prototype user interface scenarios, allowing you to evolve your concepts from a series of rough ideas into a living and breathing prototype that can be made as real as a particular client or project demands. This rapid, iterative and cost effective approach to prototyping allows you to concentrate on what matters most, being creative and building the best solution for your client, on time and within budget.

What is SketchFlow?

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The Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides secure connectivity as a service to help developers bridge cloud, on-premises, and hosted deployments. You can use AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Access Control to build distributed and federated applications as well as services that work across network and organizational boundaries. From simple eventing scenarios to complex protocol tunneling, AppFabric Service Bus gives developers the flexibility to choose how their applications communicate, and to address the challenges presented by firewalls, NATs, dynamic IP, and disparate identity systems. AppFabric Access Control enables simple, secure authorization for RESTful web services that federate with a variety of identity providers.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/netservices.aspx

O WebDay traz-lhe as tendências e a inovação Web: o futuro das tecnologias como o Silverlight, o Internet Explorer, Expression, ASP.NET e Windows Azure.

1 dia completo, com três tracks, 16 sessões e os melhores oradores nacionais. Terá ainda a oportunidade de partilhar as melhores práticas com a Comunidade Web.

Quem deverá participar?

O Webday está desenhado para Web Developers, Criativos, Information Architects, Designers Gráficos, profissionais de User Experience, Digital Marketeers e… para todos os que partilham o interesse sobre o que o futuro da Web nos trará.

Esta é a oportunidade de fazer parte do futuro da Web!

Evento Gratuito!

http://www.mswebday.com