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 it a smoking gun like Steve Gillmor) is the fact that adoption of Silverlight was event, rather than application, driven. [...]
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 a pitchman (you had me at Shoe Circus Jerry). The ad was subtle, avoided the obvious Apple references, was utterly devoid [...]
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 it prominently into adobe.com. In fact, every company should have one of these pages. It should be a place [...]
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 plus side, the plug-in for both Safari and Firefox was included rather than having two separate installs [...]
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 stomach, then golf is the Cour’souvra for his soul. All kidding, aside it was awesome to get the [...]
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 example of the tectonic shift content creation software is undergoing. Content creation tools, desktop or otherwise, must leverage the cloud (push and pull). What makes [...]