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June 2007 - Posts

Virtual Earth screensaver

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:20 AM by ianm | 0 Comments

More Silverlight tutorials

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:21 PM by ianm | 0 Comments

Nice new Silverlight tutorials

These are great: short, snappy Silverlight "how to" tutorials using....Silverlight. Perfect. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:40 PM by ianm | 5 Comments

Virtual Earth in UK websites

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. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:52 AM by ianm | 3 Comments

Mix:UK 07 - register your interest

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:22 PM by ianm | 3 Comments

Sky News Vista gadget

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.... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 20, 2007 10:21 AM by ianm | 0 Comments

Video tutorial on Silverlight Streaming

[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] I Read More...
Posted Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:15 PM by ianm | 8 Comments

Example of a UK site using Silverlight streaming

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 4:06 PM by ianm | 7 Comments

Award-winning Developer launch

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, Read More...
Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 2:08 PM by ianm | 1 Comments
 
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