(read This article on silverlight pages)

There are a lot of thing coming for developers nowadays, and all seems to be coming from the web cloud. All throughout the year many new technologies have been introduced. Not only these are exciting(at least for me) but also it seems that these technologies will direct the programming paradigm as well. Shall we look into developing Software delivered as a service, or couple services with services, what tools we shall use etc. etc.

Let me not start a long article and talk about the tools that have been introduced in the last months.

Silverlight, formerly WPF/E was the most interesting one.  Replacing WPF/E and  coming with a bunch of charming examples the tool made developers start to think about  creative interfaces, and maybe get non-developers; artists, designers to start thinking about  "unleashing their creativity". http://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspx

And Surface ;  which is basically a special computer equipped with Vista, Cameras, and sensors to form up a surface computer that enable people to use natural hand gestures, touches and physical objects placed on it.

My favorite example on this is the Silverlight surface demo, try it out here.

That said there are a lot in innovative products that are falling down from the cloud; lets check them out

Popfly is the drag and drop meshup programming tool where you can create web pages and gadgets as well, in Popfly you can use Virtual Earth, Flickr, Facebook and many more trendy blocks to create meshups and even get these meshups to your desktop into the gadgets area in Vista, check it out! Popfly is not broadly public yet and is invite only!

Then the list goes on by live.com services; some of which are http://local.live.com/    where you get the 3D view and representations;

These are real modelings for these cities. And if you want to drive in these cities check out the Live Search Maps where you will be traveling on the streets and drive towards your destination!!

At http://labs.live.com/   you can traverse various places through the edge mapped hundreds of pictures along with a 3D model. These include San Marco; Space Shuttle; Ely Cathedral  by BBC; Trafalgar Square; South Korea ; Rome etc. Check out the video section for more details on this technology;

With all these live applications there comes a fun and rich interactive for our applications; and these are not limited to search applications only. Revolutionizing WPF capabilities for Browsers(yes almost all Browsers, IE, Firefox,  Safari on Mac ) will blow your applications away;

Applications are definitely are getting to a more interactive and fun to use way. Check out Miss Dewey for example; an interactive search that will make you search for things!

So, download  Silverlight and get the developer toolkit for live.com. And dive into the amazig graphical experiences.