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Bubblemark RIA Benchmark Now Does JavaFX, AIR, Silverlight, and Flex: I just caught that Bubblemark, which is quickly becoming the RIA benchmark source added a test for JavaFX. So now with the Bubblemark tool you have the source and the applications to compare a variety of RIA technologies. According to the post, JavaFX is really slow, but it's still in...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, javafx, flex, air; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Silverlight Release Candidate coming soon: On Friday Tim Sneath, an evangelist for Microsoft blogged about preparing for the release of Silverlight 1.0. It looks like we'll have a release candidate in the next couple of weeks and then probably final version a couple of weeks after that. It will be very interesting to see how...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, microsoft; Blog posts 2007-07-16
LiveStation: A Joost killer in Silverlight clothing: Microsoft is unveiling LiveStation which is an application that will enable live television on the desktop. The project uses Silverlight technology and has been touted as Microsoft's attempt at a "Joost killer". I think this is fairly old (the earliest reference I can find is 44 days ago on P2P...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, microsoft, joost; Blog posts 2007-07-06
Demo of Silverlight on Linux and running outside the browser coming in June: My parnter in crime here at ZDNet, Dana Gardner, has the scoop on news that the Mono Project will be releasing an alpha demonstration of Silverlight, Microsoft's browser Rich Internet Application technology, running on Linux. The demo, according to Miguel de Icaza, could actually have Silverlight running outside the browser...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, linux; Blog posts 2007-06-01
Expect a June demo of Silverlight on Linux, sans browser: Production-ready it will not be, but Mono project busy beavers expect to provide a feasibility "alpha" demonstration in about two weeks of Microsoft's recently unveiled Silverlight on Linux, says Miguel de Icaza, vice president of developer platforms at Novell and the leader of the Mono project.Silverlight is a proprietary runtime...; Tags: windows, web technology, web services, software infrastructure, software development, soa, saas, open source, microsoft, linux, google, enterprise 2.0, developer tools, adobe, .net; Blog posts 2007-06-01

Mono founder says Silverlight will come to Linux: Martin LaMonica over at Cnet talked to Miguel de Icaza, a vice president at Novell and head of the Mono project about Silverlight on Linux. De Icazas response? Absolutely. I think it makes a lot of sense. As Martin noted, Mono developers could be big winners with the Dynamic...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, microsoft; Blog posts 2007-05-03
They saw the Silverlight, and saw that it was good: Robert Scoble is trying to build a reinvention myth around Microsofts introduction of Silverlight, its new smart client platform. Not so fast, Scoble! Its not the Web thats rebooting, its Microsoft. Silverlight is significant as the catalyst that finally allows Microsoft to recreate itself as a vendor for the Web...; Tags: rich internet applications, microsoft, development; Blog posts 2007-05-02
Cynergy announces Silverlight application development: Yesterday Cynergy, one of the top Flex development firms, announced that they will be jumping into Silverlight development. They are the first major RIA development firm I know of to publically put support behind Silverlight. A lot of the design agencies have been working with Silverlight for a...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, cynergy; Blog posts 2007-05-01
Where Microsoft benefits from the Rich Internet Application developer problem: Rich Internet Application developer is kind of a loaded term. Youre not just writing code, you have to know how the interactions all fit together, and even if youre not creating design-side of the user interface, you often wear many hats as you build out the UI, wire the...; Tags: rich internet applications; Blog posts 2007-05-01
My lunch with Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie: Jeff Sandquist of Microsoft set up a lunch for a few of us with Scott Guthrie and Ray Ozzie here at Mix07. It was a great group of people including Richard MacManus his thoughts on the lunch are up here, Walt Ritscher, Lee Brimelow, Evan Williams, Linda Weinman, and...; Tags: microsoft, mix07, rich internet applications; Blog posts 2007-04-30
The scoop on Silverlight for developers: The speculation is over and today is the day Microsoft takes the developer covers off of Silverlight. There are a bunch of announcements today, so Ill break them down one by one, but for those in a hurry, heres the summary. First, Microsoft is announcing that the CLR will be...; Tags: silverlight, rich media, rich internet applications, microsoft; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Quick thoughts from the MIX keynote: Ive got the main post coming in a few minutes, but here are my "liveblogging thoughts from the keynote today at MIX. Ray Ozzie is hyping up Win32 applications. Hes describing it "as close to the metal" as you can get and praising the virtues of how rich...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, mix07, microsoft; Blog posts 2007-04-30
Is Silverlight a Flash competitor or an Ajax play?: Quick clarification. Flash and Silverlight are obviously competitors when it comes to videos and general features (vector graphics, animation, ect) but the point of the post is more to think about the next step in the value chain. For Flash, that seems to be building rich applications with Flex. For...; Tags: silverlight, rich internet applications, mix07, microsoft, flash, ajax; Blog posts 2007-04-24
The how and when of Adobe and Microsoft's Rich Internet Application technologies: Now that Silverlight is being talked about, people seem to be comparing Apollo and Silverlight in the same posts. I think this stems from the fact that both are still alpha/beta and that the two technologies "cross the streams" into the other companies territory. For that they are significant, but...; Tags: windows presentation foundation, expression studio, apollo, ajax, adobe, xbap, wpf, silverlight, rich internet applications, on2, microsoft, flex, flash; Blog posts 2007-04-23
"View Source" and Rich Internet Application misconceptions: Today at the Web 2.0 Expo, I sat in on a panel with Richard MacManus, Kelly Goto, Chris Messina and . They talked about the "hybrid designer" and touched on some points about the web and the richness that has really created the "hybrid" notion. In one bit, Chris said...; Tags: rich internet applications; Blog posts 2007-04-16
"WPF/E" becomes Silverlight, struts its video side: At the NAB conference this morning, Microsoft is giving us a first glimpse at Silverlight, the artist formerly known as "WPF/E". Because the announcement comes from the NAB conference, but also because its one of Silverlights major strong points, Microsoft is talking a lot about video. I was briefed about...; Tags: windows presentation foundation/everywhere, wfp/e, rich internet applications, microsoft, silverlight; Blog posts 2007-04-15

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Social giving for charity begets social giving for community: Normally I don't write about specific events but I'm making an exception as this is almost a mini overview for how charity in social media can turn into a benefit for the social Web community. In May I launched a Social Media Charity Auction that raised about...; Tags: social media, greg verdino, inbound marketing summit, jennifer leggio; Blog posts 2008-08-07
Hello, Google, is anyone in there?: We can converse and do business instantly with strangers on the opposite side of the planet, but when something goes wrong with one of the largest providers of Internet technology, we might as well live on the Moon. Yes, hey, Google, I'm talking about you. by Phil Wainewright; Tags: google inc., cloud computing, software as a service (saas), manufacturing, emerging technologies, phil wainewright; Blog posts 2008-08-07
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