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I spent this past weekend in Donegal, where my friends and I came across a really neat stone circle outside of Raphoe. It was crying out to be Photosynthed. I stood in the centre of the circle, taking a lot of photos. After uploading
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But cool technology is worth writing about, so here we go. If you were watching the MIX09 Live Keynote yesterday ( http://live.visitmix.com/ ), you saw a couple of awesome applications which really take rich, Internet applications to a new level.
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Have you heard of Zignals yet? If you have, I’m not surprised given the great visibility and publicity they’ve received for their unique, innovative application and beautiful set of controls, all done in Silverlight. They also do a great job informing
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What an exciting week this has been! Photosynth has been fully released by Microsoft Live Labs this morning. If you’re not familiar with Photosynth, it is a cool piece of technology which takes a collection of photographs and uses them to build
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Okay this is seriously awesome. Two great tastes, that taste great together: LOLCats + Deep Zoom. Great idea, Rob Burke ! Rob is as big a fan of LOLCats as I am, so I was not surprised when he told me he was working on a LOLCat Silverlight application.
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A lot of live websites have moved to Silverlight 2 beta 2, and there are some great new sites that have shown up over the last few weeks since the new version has been released. Ryanair Destinations: I love Ryanair for many reasons, but mostly because
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Did you see the Ted video that Clare linked to a few weeks back of Microsoft Research’s WorldWide Telescope? If you didn’t, you should go check it out – it’s seriously impressive. The WWT has been only available internally up until today, and now
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Via Laurent I came across this excellent site showing off a cool new application called the “Patient Journey Demonstrator.” It’s a healthcare application with end-to-end scenarios for patient data, medical professional interaction, and medical administration.
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One of the things I'm going to be talking about at my session at the IMTC, or Irish Microsoft Technology Conference 2008 on Friday is using Silverlight with DeepZoom. DeepZoom is a technology that came out of the Microsoft Live Labs which allows
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It's been a while since I've updated the top Silverlight sites. There have been so many cool new sites that have come out since Silverlight 2 beta, so it's difficult to pick the best ones. I am throwing out all of my old recommendations and
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Time for some new eye candy - here are my latest favourite Silverlight sites. Silverlight Valentine: Don't you want to send a sparkly, Silverlighty Valentine? Go on and share the love. This site pulls a picture of your choice from Flickr or Windows Live
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Intersoft WebUI Sirius: Project codenamed " Sirius " by Intersoft Solutions is supposed to "...deliver new innovations and fresh breakthrough UI components for the Web platform." Siriusly, go check it out (I know, terrible pun). It looks at first like
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A few new apps added this week to my top ten list: GOA WinForms for Silverlight: I have to give a lot of credit to Netika , who created the GOA WinForms for Silverlight . Someone showed me these applications last week at TechEd and I was blown away. Click
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As I was on holidays, I didn't update the Top Ten Silverlight Apps last week. And it's a shame too because last week the Silverlight.net site updated their "Showcase" feature. If you haven't seen the Silverlight Showcase , now you definitely have a good
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I added five new apps this week to my Top Ten Silverlight Sites: Farseer 2D Physics Engine - Farseer built a series of seven demos, each one shows a different set of bodies interacting. The individual demos have descriptions plus keyboard & mouse
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