Tag: Silverlight

  • Popfly mashups

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    Tom Raftery
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    After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface. It comes with a tutorial (on right) and the interface is easy to get used to. In fact it is even easier…

  • Dublin SilverLight event

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have written about Microsoft’s Silverlight environment several times since they debuted it at ReMix07. For the end-user, it is a Flash-like plug-in which allows viewing of apps and media written specifically for it. For the developer, Silverlight allows apps written in managed code to be delivered via a browser to Internet users in a…

  • SilverLight 1.0 launched

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    Tom Raftery
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    Back in May when Microsoft first announced SilverLight, there was quite a bit of hoopla. And, in fairness to Microsoft, deservedly so – the demos I saw of SilverLight at the launch were pretty amazing. What is SilverLight? SilverLight is similar to Flash – it is a browser plugin which allows for stunning interactivity and…

  • Ad supported Office in the works?

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    I see Microsoft are following Google into the Advertising business with their announced purchase of aQuantive for $6bn. Advertising definitely seems to be where the money is at right now – as Michael Arrington put it earlier on TechCrunch: Google bought Doubleclick for $3.1 billion in April. Later that same month, Yahoo acquired competitor RightMedia…

  • Does Silverlight kill Internet connectivity on Macs?

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    I had a problem with my MacBookPro the other day. It lost Internet connectivity. It couldn’t get an IP address from the DSL router. Restarting the router didn’t help. Nor did stopping and starting Airport or using a wired connection. At first I figured the router was fried. But then, I restarted the Mac and…

  • Silverlight

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft launched Silverlight yesterday in a blaze of stunning demos at the MIX07 keynote yesterday. The demos were not done by Microsoft but by partner companies who were given access to Expression Studio (the Silverlight development tools) a couple of weeks ago. Everyone I have talked to at MIX was blown away. To my mind…