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BBC goes DeepZoom

Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 10:14 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/09/bbc-goes-deepzoom.aspx';   My pal Paul Dawson tipped me off to a project between the BBC, Conchango and Microsoft that involves the beeb using our DeepZoom technology for the BBC One Read More...
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Prepare to be blown away with Deep Zoom

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:44 PM by stevecla01
I've loved SeaDragon since I first saw it and now it's in Silverlight 2.0 and called Deep Zoom. At MIX08 today we saw an amazing demo of this technology from Hard Rock Cafe. It'll blow you away http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/   Duncan from TechCrunch Read More...
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Nokia and Microsoft get cozy

Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 1:21 AM by stevecla01
    Who'da thunk it - Microsoft and Nokia . Back when I worked in mobile there would have been snow on the sun for this to happen but in this brave new world, it doesn't seem so strange. Scoble still pops out the money quote though:   The Read More...
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Loving Livestation

Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:57 PM by stevecla01
Quick screenshot of my desktop from a moment ago - suring and watching BBC News 24 in a window - thanks to Livestation and Silverlight. Love it! Read More...
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Turning the Pages 2.0 in Silverlight

Posted Saturday, February 23, 2008 7:48 PM by stevecla01
Good spot from Ashish Shetty The British Library's Turning The Pages project is currently featuring 5 treasures from across the United Kingdom . In addition to the Windows Vista version (specifically a WPF browser app a.k.a. XBAP) of the app, there's Read More...
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Livestation widens beta

Posted Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:12 PM by stevecla01
I bumped in to my pal Matteo Berlucchi last week in London and he mentioned he had good things coming. The good thing is a widening of the beta of Livestation which delivers streamed TV to your desktop. I've played with this technology for ~6 months now Read More...
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Create a Silverlight Christmas Cool Wall

Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:49 PM by stevecla01
Last week I asked my readers to help me build a Christmas wish list and there have been some great suggestions so thanks to everyone who chipped in. I've now started to post them to my Cool Wall - followers of BBC's Top Gear will be familiar with this Read More...
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Silverlight does Pong, Twitter and more

Posted Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:45 AM by stevecla01
Through the Blue Monster stuff I met Alison Weber from a company called Vectorform in the US. That's her above with a framed Blue Monster litho in the background. Well it turns out Alison's company recently completed a "Vectorform Labs project" Read More...
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Microsoft powers up for change

Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:27 PM by stevecla01
[photo credit, me - hence why I do this job and not photography] I haven't got my head around that headline from The Telegraph today following their interview with Steve Ballmer yesterday but this quote caught my eye "We are a software company, and Read More...
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More LiveStation goodness

Posted Sunday, September 30, 2007 2:48 PM by stevecla01
You can't keep the man Berlucchi off the little screen and following the success of the video interview I posted a while back he's back with details of the new multichannel version of LiveStation . Sign up the trial of this terrific Silverlight powered Read More...
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Silverlight and Surface

Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:02 AM by stevecla01
Microsoft Surface is perhaps the product I get asked about more than any at the moment - I guess because of it's accessibility and promise of revolutionsing how people interact with computers its generated that excitement. As far as I know, a Surface Read More...
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59th Primetime Emmy goes Silverlight

Posted Wednesday, September 12, 2007 7:44 AM by stevecla01
WOW ! Technorati Tags: silverlight Read More...
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Designing The Next Era Of Software

Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:38 PM by stevecla01
  Very cool site and event series from the Expression team . Expression Around the Clock starts on October 4 and the whole event is within 24 hours covering 10 countries. It kicks off at Auckland, New Zealand and finishes in Toronto, Canada . Other Read More...
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Halo 3 gets some Silverlight

Posted Friday, August 31, 2007 11:32 AM by stevecla01
  Productivity in our team just went down. Stunning example of Silverlight. Hat Tip to Angus - your man for Live shtuff. As he notes, if you haven't used Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live you are missing a great opportunity to store and stream Read More...
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Microsoft's Swahili search

Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:46 PM by stevecla01
I heard about Tafiti last week via internal email and it's out in the wilds already - a very nice UI to search that uses Silverlight. I particularly like the tree view, newspaper view and the drop results on glass pane. As Betanews noted, the name means Read More...
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