September 3rd, 2008 — Silverlight, Video
The SingTel Singapore Grand Prix is running a promotion called the SingTel Grid Girls.
In this Silverlight application you choose from one of 20 Grid Girls then complete a quiz to get your compatibility match. If you’re not a match you see a video of her looking disappointed, make a match and you get a special little prize.
Not too shabby.
March 27th, 2008 — Silverlight, Video
Frogs69 (Remy?) announced on the on the Silverlight Streaming Blog that Microsoft will be opening a pilot program for revenue sharing on the Silverlight Streaming Service.
This spring we’ll be launching a pilot program to offer turnkey advertising with the Silverlight Streaming video service.
This pilot program will allow a control group of Silverlight Streaming account holders to take Silverlight videos and automatically insert contextual advertisements into the end-user video playback experience.
I wish i had something to offer, do you? I’d love to check it out.
March 22nd, 2008 — Silverlight, Video
Yeah, I said it. Oprah.
According to ReadWriteWeb Oprah’s doing a 10 week interactive series via Silverlight and Skype. The course is expected to draw a half million viewers.
Oprah just might bring Silverlight to the mainstream in a way that the Olympics and Library of Congress never could.
An anonymous reader tipped us off to ViewOn TV v0.3. ViewOn is a WPF Media Library and Player similar to iTunes or Zune desktop. It’s got some nice features like:
The UI is not ground breaking, but it’s nice and clean. The app supports browsing by genre or cover art, visualizations, scrollbar location preview, and a nice little color chooser. It also supports compact mode which is handy.
March 19th, 2008 — Silverlight, Video
Ok, this has to be the coolest Silverlight Video implementation I’ve seen to date. Beautiful and consistent theme, fluid transitions and a hip full motion video background. Check it. Rai Click presenta SANREMO ANCHE NOI
November 1st, 2007 — Silverlight, Video
Angus Logan has posted a very nice tutorial written by Jim Thill. It’s an in depth overview on how to publish Silverlight Video from Microsoft Expression Encoder direct to the Windows Live Silverlight Streaming service. The process is made pretty straightforward with the recently released Silverlight Streaming Publishing Plug-In for Expression Encoder.
October 31st, 2007 — Silverlight, Video
Matthew David has a brief review of his experience encoding Silverlight Video with Microsoft Expression Encoder
October 25th, 2007 — Silverlight, Video, WPF
…Sorry I haven’t been able to post much lately. I’ve been very busy on several projects for MS
October 13th, 2007 — Silverlight, Video
Microsoft is offering free video streaming over at silverlight.live.com
Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications.
September 26th, 2007 — Silverlight, Video
Looks like the Comedy network has made the switch to Silverlight Video
