Microsoft MIX 07 Poll: What do you think of Microsoft Silverlight? As noted in our coverage of Ray Ozzie's MIX keynote this morning, Microsoft has released a number of significant upgrades to its Silverlight product. Silverlight is essentially a competitor to Adobe's Flash, in that enables developers to create interactive web apps. It's officially described as "a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft MIX 07 Lunch With Ray Ozzie and Scott Guthrie: Browsers, Live.com, Microsoft's Web Strategy I was fortunate enough to be invited to a blogger lunch with Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie and General Manager of Client and Web Platform & Tools Scott Guthrie. The discussion was mostly developer focused, but right at the end I managed to get a question in about Microsoft's strategy for IE and live.com. I asked Ray what is… Richard MacManus View comments
Microsoft MIX 07 Ray Ozzie Keynote at MIX, Las Vegas I'm at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, courtesy of Microsoft New Zealand. Ray Ozzie has just completed his keynote speech, in which he delivered a more refined version of his 'integrated Web/Desktop' vision. He talked about how the best solutions are "integrated solutions", meaning integrated Web, desktop and mobile. He talked about RIAs… Richard MacManus View comments
Analysis Amazon, VCs Woo Seattle-area Developers Two days after wowing Wall Street with earnings handily beating all estimates, Amazon held an event wooing local (Seattle area) web developers and venture capital firms alike. Perhaps its just a coincidence after adding US$7 billion in market capitalization the last two days, but money definitely seems to be following Amazon's… John Milan View comments
web Listen To The News With BlueGrind When the people at BlueGrind say they're in beta, they mean it. The website nearly doesn't work at all. Even the 'About' and 'Contact' pages don't yet exist, so this post is going to be full of a lot of speculation. That said, however, BlueGrind is too compelling for me to pass up. BlueGrind is a text-to-speech technology provider. Their… Josh Catone View comments