My colleague Simon Davies has just pointed me at a cool Virtual Earth (VE) screensaver that uses RSS feeds from a number of sites to show interesting images from VE. Worth taking a look, plus you get access to the source code so you can see how the VE...

I recently posted a couple of entries ( here and here ) with tutorials regarding Silverlight. If you're interested in more video tutorials on Silverlight, take a look at http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx for a whole host including the Silverlight...

These are great: short, snappy Silverlight "how to" tutorials using....Silverlight. Perfect.

I've just noticed that the NHS are now using Virtual Earth for their "find a service" feature that lets you find NHS doctors, dentists etc. Also of course Tesco are using it for their store locator , and Rightmove are using it as their mapping service...

We've getting closer to starting registrations for the Mix:UK 07 event. I've been banned from telling you more about it at the moment :-) as we're holding back most of our cards, but if you're interested in keeping up to date visit the site and add your...

Sky News have just released a gadget for the Windows Vista sidebar - I particularly like the option of "strange news" that you can select. Being a bit strange myself, this appeals to me....

[UPDATE: We have since published a plug in to Expression Encoder that makes it much, much easier to publish your videos to the web. See this post for more details. I have removed the links to the original tutorial below as it is no longer relevant] ...

Take a look at http://www.lovelewisham.tv for an example of Silverlight streaming being used by the London Borough of Lewisham on their website. The thing to bear in mind that the videos being shown here : a) They are not costing Lewisham any bandwidth...

Those of you who watched the webcasts we produced for the UK Developer launch of Windows Vista and Microsoft Office in January may recall that we pushed the boat out a bit in order to make the experience as rich as possible. The keynote was streamed live...