NBC Olympics Player | Olympics + Silverlight + 1000’s of Hours of HD Goodness
Friday, den 7. March 2008
Some time ago, we announced that NBC would be using Silverlight to broadcast the Olympics to the web. Now, for the first time, NBC is showing what the application looks like — and it is beautiful! Nishant interviewed Perkins Miller of NBC about the application, and got an exclusive demo — this [...]
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Report: Google, Microsoft, and two media companies bidding on Digg
Friday, den 7. March 2008
If every blog rumor were to be believed, social news site Digg would have been bought a dozen times over by now, so take the latest one with the requisite grain of salt.
TechCrunch reported early on Friday that four companies are in the running to place bids on Digg–Microsoft, Google, and two unidentified "media companies"–and [...]
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The Ultimate Link List of Everything MIX!
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
At the MIX08 conference, a lot of new, great stuff was announced, here is one place to download everything and try out the sites that were featured (like Hard Rock’s Memorabilia). The Ultimate Link List is here! Here we go.
Downloads:
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 (x86)
Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008 [...]
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Building Your Own Deep Zoom
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
In Silverlight 2, one of the new features is the support for Deep Zoom technology, which allows you to quickly zoom in and out on really large images. If you haven’t already done so, you’ve got to check out our video on this here. Or just visit the Hard Rock Memorabilia site here: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/
So now [...]
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First Look at IE8 Activities and WebSlices
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
First Look at IE8 Activities and WebSlices
Activities and WebSlices are two of the most exciting new features in IE8. Watch Jane Kim explain how these features bring the power of mashups to the browser, and how you can tie your web site or service into IE8’s chrome using only [...]
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New MSN Toolbar Beta Released
Thursday, den 6. March 2008
The new MSN Toolbar Beta, powered by Silverlight, is now available for download from beta.toolbar.msn.com. The toolbar, with its Vista-like UI offers drop-down previews of MSN content in areas like News, Entertainment, Sports, Money, Autos, Shopping, Lifestyle, Health, and more. You can preview the content in these areas without having to leave the web page [...]
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Try out IE8 Now with the Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008New and exciting features
Activities
Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do.
Activities typically involve two types of scenarios: "look up" information within a webpage or "send" web content to [...]
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Microsoft shows IE8 at Mix
Wednesday, den 5. March 2008
LAS VEGAS–Microsoft offered its first public demonstration of Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday, a prospect that had general manager Dean Hachamovitch struggling to figure out what to cover.
“I’m so excited that I had to figure out how to focus,” he told the crowd. The marketing folks naturally suggested he point to three major advances, but [...]
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Microsoft goes public with Office Live Workspace beta
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Regular readers of this blog know that I don’t believe that Google Apps is a viable alternative to Microsoft’s Office.
While Microsoft is not releasing a completely online version of its Office on Tuesday, it is releasing Office Live Workspace, an online-collaboration tool for Office that works in cooperation with the desktop application suite.
Workspace enables users [...]
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Microsoft Silverlight coming to mobile devices this year
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008
Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in will be bringing videos and other rich media to Nokia smartphones later this year.
The two companies on Tuesday at Microsoft’s Mix ‘08 conference are scheduled to announce that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia’s Series 60 (S60) smartphone software that runs on Symbian OS. The software, which [...]
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Move over GoToMyPc.com here comes LogMeIn.com
Tuesday, den 4. March 2008I have been using LogMeIn for a while. The main reason is that it has FREE version. During the trial period it is in pro mode, which rocks. If you are a small biz owner, or moving files to and from my home\work PC, I would upgrade, the price is reasonable. The Web and Windows [...]
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Finding the perfect flight with InsideTrip.com | Webware.com
Monday, den 3. March 2008As I sat in the back row on a cross-country US Airways flight a few nights ago, with the engine roaring outside the window, the bathroom directly behind me stinking, and unable recline my seat at all, I wondered how I could have avoided the unfortunate situation I was in.
Help is on the way [...]
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Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope
Saturday, den 1. March 2008The WorldWide Telescope is a computer program created by Microsoft, expected to be released to public in Spring 2008, which allows its users to view outer space, much like Stellarium. It was announced at the the TED Conference in Monterey. Users are able to pan around outer space and zoom as far in to [...]
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How to Negotiate - Tips for Yahoo! - Video
Friday, den 29. February 2008Thanks Mony for pointing this out
Watch more DIY videos on 5min.com
5min - How to Negotiate - Tips for Yahoo! - Video
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Eyejot - the easiest way to send video
Thursday, den 28. February 2008I’m a fan of Eyejot, one of several online products that makes it very easy to send a video message. Eyejot uses Flash and your Webcam to skip the annoying video upload stage: you just just look at your camera, press record, and you’re making a video. Eyejot messages come as e-mails with links to [...]
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View antique books with Silverlight (or WPF)
Wednesday, den 27. February 2008
Turning the Pages 2.0 is an amazing example of what can be done with WPF and Silverlight. Using a high-end scanning device, the British Library has taken a number of precious books, which you would normally only be able to see under glass, and open to a single page chosen by a curator, and allowed [...]
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Hands-on: LinkedIn’s new mobile site
Monday, den 25. February 2008
What do you do if you’re billed as a business professional’s Facebook, and a substantial portion of your more than 19 million members are jet-setting business types with fancy mobile phones and jobs that lend to schmoozing? You build a mobile site so they can invite contacts as they meet them or identify in real [...]
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Is Yahoo the right mate for Microsoft? Yes…
Sunday, den 24. February 2008
New friends? Steve Ballmer and Jerry Yang
With Microsoft’s pursuit Google…I mean Yahoo… going into the end game, some are questioning the wisdom of plunking down about $45 billion on such a prize. Last week, Robert Breza, an analyst with RBC Capital Market, made the case for Microsoft chipping away at Google’s search/ad lead in a [...]
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Livestation Begins Beta
Thursday, den 21. February 2008
Livestation, the new video streaming service that features Silverlight technology, has begun its invite-only beta this past week by sending out invites to those who signed up for on the Livestation web site.
With Livestation, you can watch a range of live radio and television channels on your computer if you have a broadband connection, with [...]
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Skydrive Now 5 GIGS!
Thursday, den 21. February 2008
That is not a typo. Today, the SkyDrive team announced that they are increasing the amount of free storage to five times what it was before, going from 1 GB to 5 GB. With this new release of the service, some other improvements to the site have been made to make the service faster and [...]
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