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Streaming Media West

This week, I'm at Streaming Media West in San Jose, California. Seeing the sun, blue skies and relatively warm weather is a pleasant change from the rain swept northwest. Today is a special pre-conference half-day workshop on Live Broadcasting with Silverlight and Windows Media , which my colleague Chris Knowlton is running. We're videotaping it for posterity and will get it posted as soon as we can. On Wednesday morning, Marc Whitten, GM of Xbox Live will be delivering the keynote at 9am and on...( read more ) Read More...

Innovative France 24 Silverlight Player

France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also uses Smooth Streaming to deliver an innovative take on live news. You can check out the player and their blog post (in French.) Here’s the quick summary of the France 24 French blog post: “Imagine that each spoken word in a video is automatically transcribed and associated with a recorded video sequence. Add to that a program grid, real-time viewer data and vote tallying. Then present all of this in...( read more ) Read More...

Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards

We’ve been nominated in three categories for the 2009 Streaming Media Reader’s Choice Awards. There are 22 categories in all and run the gamut from content to technologies. You can enter your votes here . We’ve been nominated in the following categories: Best Streaming Innovation: Microsoft Smooth Streaming Encoding Software (Under $1,000): Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 Server Hardware/Software: Microsoft IIS7 Media Services 3 Voting closes on October 16th and the winners will be announced at Streaming...( read more ) Read More...

Roll Up! Roll Up! Get Your Smooth Streaming Here!

Want to know more about Smooth Streaming in the real world? Join us on Thursday October 15th at 11am Pacific time for a special live web broadcast hosted by Streaming Media Magazine. Dan Rayburn of Streaming Media Magazine will moderate the discussion between our very own Chris Knowlton who is a senior program manager in the IIS team at Microsoft, and Jaime Miles who is the head of European Architecture and Engineering for Level 3 Communications in Europe. The webcast will cover how to deliver HD...( read more ) Read More...

70th Anniversary of The Wizard of Oz

To celebrate the 70th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz, Netflix is doing two very special events: A live “Songs from Oz” concert in Central Park featuring songs from the movie. The concert is being streamed on-demand using Silverlight Smooth Streaming technology. A special free presentation of the remastered movie itself on Sunday October 3rd for Netflix subscribers and non-subscribers alike, also streamed using Silverlight Smooth Streaming technology. The events have been made possible through the...( read more ) Read More...

Canal+ Launches FOOT+ Soccer Channel in Silverlight

Groupe CANAL, the premiere pay television channel in France with 10.6 million subscribers, is adopting Microsoft Silverlight for their FOOT+ online streaming video service . devoted to covering French and European soccer. FOOT+, which is an additional subscription service to Canal+ customers, provides live and on-demand access to French and European soccer including the French Ligue 1, UEFA Champions League and the Europa League. More information can be found here and in the French press release...( read more ) Read More...

Community TechDays in Hyderabad: September 20th 2009

Hey Everybody, Community TechDays India is back and with loads of action. And why is that? Because, it is in 11 Cities with 19 insightful Technical Sessions. I would be participating in the event that is being held in Hyderabad, A.P, India. I will be taking a session on IIS 7.5 Administration with Windows Server 2008 R2. It's going to be a level 100-200 session where in I would like to bring people up to date with the latest developments in IIS 7.5 that ships with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008...( read more ) Read More...

Windows Cache Extension for PHP is here

Microsoft has released a Beta of a new PHP accelerator named Windows Cache Extension for PHP. It's a pretty cool thing for anybody who deals with a lot of PHP applications on Windows because the way I see it and Microsoft explains is the same. We can now have even better performance from PHP applications! How? Basically, as the name suggests Windows Cache Extension is a caching technique which results in better performance results, as not every request asking for the same resource needs to go to...( read more ) Read More...

ASP.NET Mini-URL on CodePlex

Here is a sample ASP.NET MVC application to show how to create URL shrink/snippet/etc and handling of shorten URLs. The purpose of this sample project is to show developers how simple it is to create a simple URL redirection service like tinyurl , is.gd or snurl . To get a full listing of all available URL redirection services, check out the open directory listing . I thought it was interesting and thought you might too.   Technorati Tags: Microsoft , ASP.NETOOP , Open Source...( read more ) Read More...

Is your career THRIVING – Microsoft has a new portal to help.

Thrive – a one-stop community hub that offers job postings , technical content , and community resources . Microsoft understands that today’s economy is challenging for developers. You’re stretching your skills, looking for work, or searching for efficient solutions to unfamiliar tasks. That’s why we created Thrive. It’s a one-stop community hub that delivers career advice, training programs, peer insights and job postings. You’ll also find tools to help you connect with other smart coders in your...( read more ) Read More...