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3/19/2009
This years MIX09 event is chalk full of innovative business solutions. Even if you couldnt attend the event in person you can still keep up with much of the key announcements and demos via video on the web. Below are a few of the latest video postings coming out of the event.
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Share this Post:    2/12/2009Looking for some inspiration around use of Silverlight on the Internet? If you haven’t been keeping an eye on things Microsoft Silverlight is HOT!!! Watch this summers Olympics? You were watching via Silverlight. Silverlight is cross browser cross operating system. Since the 2.0 release 4 months ago there have been over 100 million installs of Silverlight! Since its release quite some time before Silverlight Adobe’s AIR (which comes bundled with Acrobat) has only reached parity with a claimed 100 million downloads over more than twice the same timeframe. Now supporting all the Visual Studio classes use and development on Silverlight is set to explode as traditional VS developers (the largest installed developer base in the world) can develop within their environment (VisualStudio) and output to Silverlight. This is HUUUUGE as there is no need to learn a different programming model, and can readily leverage the existing skill sets of in house developers to create rich web based applications that previously could only be done as client side applications.
As one might expect though most early use of such technology in context of the public Internet is being done with a multimedia focus as media is huge online. The Olympics were a great example of that with Silverlight enabling the delivery of more than 4 times the number of video streams as was previously offered during the 2004 Olympics. Well with the whole Video Internet thingie in mind I am very happy to share with you a new site that launched Tuesday of this week and really showcases the use of Silverlight for a video portal. RAI – Radio Televisione Italiana, the public broadcaster in Italy, is now live with their new Web TV portal http://www.rai.tv built on Silverlight 2, Windows Media Services, IIS 7 and the new SmoothStreaming technology! The new Web TV site was launched Tuesday at a press conference held by RAI where Mr. Claudio Cappon, General Manager RAI, and Mr. Piero Gaffuri, General Manager RAINet, announced the new and improved experiences for their users:
- New 3D-like Video Wall homepage, with video thumbnails and video preview features
- 7 channels with live web TV to choose from, delivered at 500Kb/s through a Silverlight 2 Player to improve fullscreen video consumption (upgrade from 300Kb to 500Kb is in progress for all channels)
- Video-On-Demand section with HD encoding delivered through the new SmoothStreaming technology (the first case world-wide)
- Partnership with Akamai to deliver live and VOD SmoothStreaming content
- Support for Linux users through a Moonlight 1.0 video player
So take a look at Radio Televisione Italiana, see what Silverlight might be able to do for your own company on the Internet, oh, and brush up on a little Italian along the way.  Ciao!
New 3D-like Video Wall homepage
Live Channel view
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Share this Post: 1/12/2009For years the proliferation of Flash on the web has been aided by the fact that there has been a plethora of cheap easy to use animation tools available. This made it possible for the average, non-technical, web wanna be (read folks like me), person to be able to create eye popping graphical animations without much training . I personally used a flash tool from a company called SoThink pretty extensively. Well I am super psyched to announce that they have just released a Silverlight version of their Quicker tool. I am going to be downloading and installing it myself later today so you will see some example by me shortly.
Features of Sothink Quicker for Silverlight include:
- Supports Microsoft Silverlight version 2.0
- Supports creating various animations, such as Motion Tween animation, Guide Line animation, Frame
- by Frame animation.
- Provides full suite of Drawing Tools for you to create graphics, shapes whatever you desired.
- Provides powerful shape editing functionality.
- Supports importing Flash SWF files and the elements of SWF, such as image, graphics and sound into
- Quicker for Silverlight to create Silverlight animation.
- Supports importing & editing Sound, Image and Video in various formats.
- Supports exporting movie.
- Supports exporting Microsoft Expression Blend Solution.
- Supports replacing symbol of instances.
- Supports writing script individually. In Sothink Quicker for Silverlight, script is authored by C# or JavaScript.
- Supports adding event handler method.
- Supports multi-bytes language text.
They do have a free download trial so you can give it a whirl at no cost. I hope to see many more such tools popping up shortly as it will really help to jumpstart to the use and proliferation of Silverlight .
Check out Sothink Quicker for Silverlight here. Now time for me to get out my credit card and and pick up my own copy.
Share this Post: 10/14/2008It’s here, it’s live, get yours today! Silverlight 2 is now available for official download. With Silverlight already on 1 in 4 computers, being loaded up now on a slew of new web services, and most importantly now able to be standard output for Visual Studio developers supported all their VS classes, Silverlight is set to explode. Give it a try. Head on over to http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/ install Silverlight, then cruise around and check out some of the showcases. Have a Silverlight instance you want to show off that you have done yourself? Let me know and I will be happy to send a little link love your way. Doing a Silverlight component for SharePoint? Even better. Let me know and we can do a whole feature spot on you. So young Jedi turn from the dark side of the force and turn to the light….. Silverlight!!! 
Share this Post: 10/8/2008Okay this time I am really going to sign off after posting…. it’s just that. Well for any one who as been to a presentation of mine you know when I start talking about Silverlight and SharePoint together I get …. well all emotional. SharePoint is a phenomenal platform for delivering applications and Silverlight 2.0 represents the richest cross browser, cross OS, mechanism for delivering rich web based applications. Its only logical that they go hand in hand (heck I have a meeting with a customer Friday on just this very topic )
At any rate just as I was getting ready to sign off I saw Silverlight Maestro Tim Heuer had a status update on Facebook with a link to his blog post “Silverlight in SharePoint web parts.” Its must read…. so get reading!!!
Great stuff and more on it later but I am getting summoned so gotta run. Silverlight and SharePoint for all!!
Share this Post: 9/2/2008
I have talked a lot about the power of Silverlight and how when coupled with SharePoint really has the power to shake things up. Well the following video from Channel 10 by Laura Foy is a story of Silverlight helping to shake things up in a different way. Her post on CrowdFire: A celebration of live music and living archive may not change the Enterprise but is definitely cool and provides a great example how Silverlight can bring imagination to reality. Once you are done watching the video you can check out CrowdFire here http://crowdfire.net/
Crowdfire
Share this Post: 8/28/2008
Very cool announcement from the Popfly folks.
Cross posted from the Popfly team blog:
It’s a great time to come back to Popfly and check out all the improvements! Here are some features we just released as part of the Game Creator Beta:
Features for everyone:
| New profile pages, with easier ways to view people’s projects, friends, recent activity, and more
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| View anyone's favorite projects
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| Earn badges by creating compelling content, being a good game player, making friends, or just being lucky! Learn more about badges here.
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Features for game creators of all skill levels:
| Undo support for actor appearance editing
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| Insert images and videos directly into your actor or scene
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| Play audio from the Web or an uploaded file without custom code
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| Customize actor edges with a simple drag-and-drop view
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| Nudge elements into their proper positions with arrow keys
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| Preview any scene inside the motion dialog and custom code dialog
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| Jump to any scene when playing a game in the Play editor
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Features for advanced game authors:
| New properties that can be used at runtime
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Actor: Name, TypeName, VisualX, VisualY, VisualWidth, VisualHeight, Scene: Width, Height
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Scroll wheel & tab support in the XAML & JavaScript editor
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| "Current Scene" support, for more generic actors and scenes that are easier to clone
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Features for game embedders:
| Add ?mute=true to the URL to mute the game by default
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Features for mashup authors:
| New StringFormatter block
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| Image scraping support in the RSS block
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| 1/7/2008Okay so following on my last post around Christophe's blog I have a further link that anyone looking to present a slick UI for their video portal should check out. Vertigo Video.Show has a downloadable full reference site titled "Silverlight for the Silver Screen." From their site it states: "Video websites are lots of fun, but setting up your own video community website can be a real headache. There's a lot to worry about: disk space, bandwidth, video formats and encoding... That's why we built a reference quality site which does all of the hard work for you. The key is Silverlight technology paired up with Silverlight Streaming's free, world class content hosting. Video.Show provides Silverlight 1.0 video controls, Silverlight Streaming hosting integration, leveraging Expression Encoder's ability to handle most popular video formats. We’ve set things up so you can be uploading videos within minutes, and we’ve added in some cool features like time-based video comments, so your comments will be synchronized with the video playback. Features - Designed to get you up and running quickly with minimal setup and configuration
- All video is hosted at Silverlight Streaming, which gives you 4GB storage and 700 Kbps bandwidth via Microsoft's worldwide Content Delivery Network
- Comments are time-based and are synchronized with video playback
- Demonstrates a data layer built using Linq To Sql
- Broad media format support (avi,mp4,asf,mpeg,dvr-ms,mpg,m2v,ts,m4v,vob,mov, and wmv) via Expression Encoder
- Leverages the AJAX Control Toolkit to add animations and interactivity
- Encoding properties are configurable via standard Expression Encoder job file
- Cross broswer (IE 6 and 7, Firefox 2, and Safari 3)
- Open source and designed with a webservice architecture
- The latest awesomeness from Vertigo.
Technologies - Silverlight 1.0
- Silverlight Streaming Service for video hosting
- Silverlight Streaming integration via REST API
- Expression Encoder
- AJAX Control Toolkit
- Visual Studio 2008
- Packaging API (for Zip file creation)
- ASP.NET / .NET 3.5
- Linq To Sql"
You can check out a working demo of it or download it by visiting http://www.vertigo.com/VideoShow.aspx Note* Yes I would definitely LOVE to see this integrated in with SharePoint and for Enterprise use have it publish to SharePoint as the repository. I was just on an internal email thread about Silverlight and video presentation and as a part of this discovered Christophe Lauer's blog. It is a great resource for Silverlight information and how to's. Prior to the new year the blog was only published in French but now he appears to be publishing in both French and English which is great news for those of us who are language limited. Check out "Christophe Lauer, Blog Edition" | View in Web Browser | /_layouts/images/ichtmxls.gif | /blogs/mikeg/_layouts/xlviewer.aspx?listguid={ListId}&itemid={ItemId}&DefaultItemOpen=1 | 0x0 | 0x1 | FileType | xlsx | 255 | | View in Web Browser | /_layouts/images/ichtmxls.gif | /blogs/mikeg/_layouts/xlviewer.aspx?listguid={ListId}&itemid={ItemId}&DefaultItemOpen=1 | 0x0 | 0x1 | FileType | xlsb | 255 | | Snapshot in Excel | /_layouts/images/ewr134.gif | /blogs/mikeg/_layouts/xlviewer.aspx?listguid={ListId}&itemid={ItemId}&Snapshot=1 | 0x0 | 0x1 | FileType | xlsx | 256 | | Snapshot in Excel | /_layouts/images/ewr134.gif | /blogs/mikeg/_layouts/xlviewer.aspx?listguid={ListId}&itemid={ItemId}&Snapshot=1 | 0x0 | 0x1 | FileType | xlsb | 256 |
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