How ridiculously easy have the Bods in Redmond made it to upload and create your own DeepZoom experiences?  This took me literally seconds to implement: http://deepzoompix.com/Album.aspx?alias=edquek&album=2  

For the benefit of the whole of mankind, Playboy has made around 50 of its classic issues of the magazine *free* to view online – made possible using Microsoft Silverlight and Deep Zoom technology. http://playboy.covertocover.com/

A video showing the main features of WPF Reactor.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?page=3 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_revolutionary_3d_.php?page=4

Here's and example of technology facilitating experiences that would otherwise be impossible. The Hard Rock Cafe, as you may know, own thousands and thousands of pieces of Rock 'n' Roll memorabilia from famous stars through the past few decades. From...

I'll be honest with you, I normally find event keynotes extremely dull. Some senior guy comes up on stage and rambles on with some spiel that panders to the company-in-question's current or upcoming product offerings that often have little to do with...

http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=PR&date=20080211&id=8171373 BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that it is releasing a new...

Someone recently asked me what my favourite games from older (not current gen platforms) were that I considered 'classic'. Here they are, probably with some glaring oversights, chronologically inaccurate and in all likelihood giving away how old I am...

  I basically learned how to do this from Laurence Moroney's excellent book " Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 ".  You should buy it. I'm deliberately leaving out some key info from this walkthrough so it doesn't hurt his book...

Try pressing his nose and ears... I'll write about how I did this next week.

  Cartoon deleted 'cos I was probably infringing somebody's copyright. Instead here's a link to the Perry Bible Fellowship which I'd never heard of (thanks kettch) but which I think is fabulously hilarious. http://pbfcomics.com/

After rooting around the Silverlight tutorials and documentation for a while I quickly became sidetracked by the attractions of being able to easily embed video into the a web page using Silverlight. A Microsoft colleague of mine from Redmond, Jim Thill...

I've actually got some real work to do, but ended up doing this instead which turned out to be way more fun. First off I decided to install the prerequisite stack required to start messing around with Silverlight 1.1. You need: Microsoft Silverlight 1...

Rather like a sad-case-mid-thirties father-of-two-with-an-expanding-girth who still goes to Heavy Metal concerts in order to cling to the last vestiges of his youth by trying to appear hip (as if Heavy Metal was ever hip), I recently decided that I wanted...

Well, seeing as for the last 4 weeks I've been doing this new role of 'Regional Manager, Next Web' I thought it about time to get with the programme. While I will spend some time explaining more about what this role is later, suffice to say for now that...