Silverlight streamed keynotes
I've been telling everyone just how impressed I was with the keynote that I saw at TechEd NZ, and now Nigel has sent me the link to the session. Instead of streaming the wmv file and getting a crappy experience (my broadband varies from 300k to 1.2mb - not good), I thought I'd download Silverlight and run the stream it directly from the web page.
Now I have a question...
Why the hell is anyone still putting out Flash videos? come on Microsoft, we should be running everything on Microsoft.com using Silverlight, not Flash as we are doing now. The experience is totally amazing. Much better.
If you're viewing the session via Silverlight and if you hover over the top of the screen, you get the different segments (chapters) of the keynote, so if you want to hop straight to the piece by Lou Carbone, just hover and click. No buffering or caching of the video, no jerkiness. What a great user experience.
So download Silverlight (it's on the keynote page and it's under 2mb) and watch Lou talk about brand loyalty and the user experience. I was still captivated when I watched it again.
But I do need to watch this again as I'd like to learn how to fold towels into the shape of a horse for my guests...
