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RIAs Blur Lines – Add Something New
There’s a great interview with Mitch Grasso, CEO of SlideRocket, over at InsideRIA. Mitch mentions one of the things that differentiates SlideRocket is presentation analytics . This is actually one...
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One Small Step For Silverlight
When you take the devil into your mouth, you’re doomed! For he is lying there waiting for you inside that air conditioned chalet at the PGA Championship. If the path to a man’s heart lies through his...
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Hype Meets Reality: Silverlight Finally Reaches The Olympics
Holy freak, the Silverlight Beta 2 plug-in install is 17 MB. I’m assuming things will get optimized down a bit for the final release, but it sure doesn’t look it will ever be a skinny plug-in. On the...
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Dear Adobe – A Lesson On Lowering Transaction Costs
Another great snag from Twitter (make sure you click on the “love it”, “hate it” , “more bitching” links). There are a few things to mull over here. First off, Adobe should buy the site and integrate...
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Convergence: Silverlight 3 To Support h.264 Video
Holy mother of all video codecs, Batman! Microsoft announces Silverlight 3 will support h.264. It’s been a pretty good week for Microsoft on the hearts and minds front. First they role out Seinfeld as...
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The Killer App Ubiquity Myth: The Olympic Bounce For Silverlight
Now that Microsoft has released the Silverlight Olympic data I hope we can put to rest the killer app equals instant ubiquity argument. Often overlooked in all of the killer app dogma (or you can call...
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JavaFX Video – Another Me Too Campaign in the Old, New Media War
I spent a little time checking out (high level) JavaFX multimedia capabilities. You can actually boil Sun’s entire JavaFX campaign down to a single 1 second sound bite (watch video excerpt below – full...
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Latest Silverlight Experience
Call my experience with Silverlight fate, karma, or a vast Microsoft conspiracy… I’m clicking both to see how smart the installers are… *Update* For any MS chaps who stop by – after installing, I’m now...
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The HTML 5 Hype Machine = Big Web Video Lie
I’m not sure I’m going to be able to survive all of the hype and misinformation surrounding HTML 5 video. No mention of the 800 lbs. gorilla–codec licensing and royalties. Who is paying for all of this...
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