September, 2010

If you're interested in live streaming, be sure to check out this step-by-step guide to creating your very own Live Smooth Streaming event using Expression Encoder courtesy of the Expression Encoder blog .

IBC is finally over for another year and it was a really good one with almost 50,000 attendees – the second highest number in its history. Here’s the wrap from the team on the ground… This was a really exciting IBC for the Microsoft...

By: Hendrik Lesser, CEO, Chimera Entertainment This week, Bigpoint GmbH – a worldwide leader in browser-based video games - announced the global launch of WARSTORY - Europe in Flames , a massively multiplayer, browser-based video game powered by Microsoft...

By: Loic Le Meur & Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Since 2007, Seesmic has provided desktop clients that allow users to connect to social networks such as Twitter or Facebook. We’re incredibly proud to announce that Seesmic Desktop 2 , built entirely...

Expression Encoder will be featured as part of a Streaming Media workshop entitled “Encoding Workshop #2: Best Practices and Strategies,” tomorrow, September 16th at 11am PST. Topics covered will include choosing video and audio formats; optimizing bitrate...

Halo: Reach is here, and a new official Halo site has also been released using a well-orchestrated combination of Silverlight and HTML. Silverlight allows Microsoft Game Studios to bring an experience to the web that is on brand and offers a familiar...

On Sunday, Interxion , iStreamPlanet and Microsoft brought together thirty industry thought leaders in a conversation about challenges and opportunities faced when producing large-scale live events. Broadcast heavyweights such as the BBC, CTV, NRK and...

Updated Saturday September 11th 2010 at 11am CET. IBC (International Broadcasting Conference) takes place every September in Amsterdam and is one of the most important events for broadcast and media professionals. We're live here in the Digital...

There’s lots of excitement today here at IBC in Amsterdam, for it is the day before the show opens. That means, the booth is coming together and so are all the demos! We have some exciting product announcements and some captivating demos showing the latest...

Ugh. Much to our chagrin, we discovered that the commenting functionality on this blog wasn't working. We just made some tweaks and commenting on this blog is working once again!

There's been a lot of discussion lately around web standards and HTML 5 in particular. People have been asking us how Silverlight fits into a future world where the <video> tag is available to developers. It's a fair question—and I'll provide...