The TechNet Australia Blog : Silverlight

Big Brother Live Streaming with Silverlight

Deeps — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:27:34 GMT

If your a fan of Big Brother you will be happy to know the Live Streaming service is using Microsoft Silverlight technology. Start watching now!

Silverlight Snack Player

Deeps — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:55:29 GMT

For those who dont have that much time on your hands you may want to try out our new MS Learning Silverlight Snack Player. I like it short and sweet and these "snacks" are around 15-20 minutes long which contain demos, animations and explanations of core technology.

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/_silverlight/learningsnacks/ws08/snack01/Default.html

Ice Cube loving Silverlight

Deeps — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:56:00 GMT

Michael Scherotter is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft US and he met with Ice Cube and his team to talk about their online TV experience UVNTV.com which is using Silverlight The following is a Silverlight Streaming HD version of the video.

All Blacks Windows Vista Sidebar Gadget Released

Deeps — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:31:00 GMT

On the topic of Windows Sidebar Gadgets, Allblacks.com have released their very own Allblacks Windows Sidebar Gadget which is running Silvelight 1.0. The New Zealand Rugby Union (David Barton-Ginger), Microsoft, Mabode (the development partner) worked together to make this happen. Before installing make sure you have the Silverlight 1.0 installed on your machine to see the gadget run in its full glory. Once you install the gadget, its in Docked mode so drag it to your desktop to see the full functionality. It feeds content from Allblacks.com into the gadget including Fixtures/Results, Multimedia, News and Team information. For those who don't have Windows Vista you can run the Browser Version of the gadget.

Docked

Undocked on the desktop

Streaming Video

Photos

Players

Microsoft Silverlight Announced

Deeps — Tue, 01 May 2007 03:17:00 GMT

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight

Microsoft® Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

Download Silverlight
Tools and Resources

Experience Silverlight
Fox Movies
Dynamic Ads
Future Microsoft.com navigation
MSDN
Page Turn
Sprawl Game
Video Library

Silverlight Streaming
Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live offers a free streaming and application hosting solution for delivering high-quality, cross-platform, cross-browser, media-enabled rich interactive applications (RIAs). With the ability to author content in Microsoft Expression Media Encoder and other third-party editing environments, Web designers maintain complete control of the user experience. Get it free