May 07, 2009
Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview , dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming . Deep Zoom is also...
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May 02, 2009
So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09 . They were invited to do a code-off with three...
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May 01, 2009
Our friends at CDNetworks announced their adoption of Smooth Streaming last week. And now they’ve have made a very cool new Smooth Streaming demo site: http://www.nextcdn.com/Silverlight.htm . It builds on the SmoothHD and IIS.net demos with a very nice...
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Apr 20, 2009
So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple...
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Apr 14, 2009
I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about...
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Mar 19, 2009
Live Smooth Streaming Lots is going on at MIX, so as not to overwhelm with too many posts, I’ll try to triple-dip on this one. First, as part of Scott Guthrie’s keynote yesterday (now with transcript ), we announced that live streaming is coming for Smooth...
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Mar 18, 2009
So, Silverlight 3 was released for public beta today, during Scott Guthrie’s keynote at MIX. There will be an on-demand version of it later on at Visitmix.com . There’s tons of info flowing around today, so I’m just going to focus on the media-related...
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Mar 17, 2009
It’s MIX09 this week, so brace yourselves for a deluge of media-related blogging from me. We’ve been in alpha/beta for a few months now, and today Akamai announced the official launch of their “AdaptiveEdge” service based on Smooth Streaming . The full...
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