Somebody somewhere in the Adobe offices must be getting pretty nervous. Microsoft’s Silverlight technology, an also-ran competitor to Flash, suddenly got a YouTube boost. Liz reports that YouTube will carry live video of March Madness, thanks to its partnership with CBS — and it’s using Silverlight to offer the video. YouTube, being a web monster, is a true king-maker, and the college basketball tournament broadcasts could prove to be a much-needed shot in the arm for Microsoft and its Silverlight technology. Less

Norman Sasono adalah Architect and Developer Advisor di Microsoft Indonesia Topik yang dibahas di episode ini: Cloud Computing & Windows Azure OS di masa depan, akankah sebagai penunjang browser saja? Windows Mobile Penetrasi Silverlight, siapa saja yang sudah mengadopsi teknologi ini? IE8 dan fitur-fitur terbaru nya Less

If you would like to learn how the NCAA basketball tournament could feed demand for getting Internet Video to the TV, this audio program is for you. CBS is giving Microsoft and the Win-tel computer makers a great opportunity to boost demand for their products in advance of next month’s March Madness. Unfortunately it looks like they are going “to the ball” by ignoring the opportunity to promote the TV-to-Laptop connection. Such a laptop-as-Media-Controller configuration empowers viewers to watch any game via live streaming video through the laptop to the TV screen. Specifically, CBS selected Microsoft’s Silverlight (a Flash competitor) for a new player that will provide three times the quality of the standard player. Quality is important given the fast-moving action of basketball. Consumers will be able to download the new player at www.ncaa.com/mmod at no charge. The new player will make the games look even better on your TV once you figure-out how to get Internet Video streams to play on the set. Therein rests the opportunity for the Win-tel suppliers. First, connect your laptop to a flat-panel TV. Most have common connection sockets, but HDMI works best. You can buy a new laptop with HDMI for as little at $400. Second, let the laptop’s on-board WiFi link to your home network and thence to the Internet. Third, choose the games you want to watch live from the website. Fourth, buy a wireless mouse and keyboard if you want to control the TV from your sofa. Regrettably it looks like it looks like the Win-tel ecosystem is missing the opportunity to promote the TV-to-Laptop Internet Video experience because the new player will not be available for download until March 10th. Come on Microsoft! This is an easy pass from CBS in a place where Apple can’t even cover you. Don’t fumble it H-P! Get your head in the game, Dell! Learn something about the game, LogiTech! Last year March Madness Internet viewership grew by 165% to nearly five million people. The games are ad-supported and therefore free to the viewer. The ad revenues are also large enough to make the entire venture highly profitable to CBS. The laptop-as-Media-Controller could become the next Killer App for the computer industry. But they need to wake-up, smell the coffee, and get things moving. First, they should provide HDMI sockets on all laptops capable of processing video. Second, they should advertising the Media Controller application. Third, Microsoft should make the player, and sample content, available asap. This is Third Generation Television. To learn more about click here where you can purchase a copy or our research report or download a free Prospectus. Less

Software, Media, Politics Gregory T. Huang wrote: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced today that its Silverlight software will be used to stream live video of the official swearing-in ceremony on the Presidential Inaugural Committee website on Tuesday, January 20. The media-player software was developed in collaboration with Las Vegas, NV-based iStreamPlanet. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS Less

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Free Information on EVault 1-866-928-0735 So Secret We Forgot Google and Net Neutrality Open Source and the Economy SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Neutral Edges for Google by Andrew McCaskey Policy versus Practice There is nothing like a Net Neutrality bombshell (Google Walks Away from Net Neutrality !) to stir up the blogosphere on an otherwise depressing newsday. It’s far more entertaining than RIAA Sues Deaf-Mute, a topic that could have kept bloggers enthralled for most of a week, just a few short years ago. The Wall Street Journal’s article on Google was lengthy and detailed, noting that both Microsoft and Yahoo have quietly stopped their Net Neutrality efforts as they made business alliances with Telcos. It was an interesting spin on a topic that’s near to the heart of every podcaster, especially video podcasts The only problem is, the article focused on non-news. Google caches content in edge based Content Delivery Network (CDN) boxes. CDN boxes are co-located with ISP’s and serves up content really fast. Google would like to do more of that. They probably will cut deals to do so. What the article did was take this topic and present it as a policy change - which Google quickly denied. It was a good treatment on the story, and places some of the PR activities on the other side - telcos cryng the blues about Google not ‘paying their share of bandwidth costs” into perspective. The refreshing facts seem to be that regardless of how policy appears to be headed, so far the practice is - for those who can afford it - to invest in edge servers, positioned with respect to demand. That is regulation by Practice, not by Policy. We need the perspective that “all that is not forbidden is permitted”, instead of “all is forbidden except that which is permitted” . The net needs to be open enough by Policy that what needs to be done, gets done in Practice. Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network 10 Minute Scrum Watch Today’s Video Episode Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… Slashdot Review by Email - Sign up here: Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz Less

Adam Kinney stops by the Channel 10 studio to show us a new silverlight application for the medical field.  Out with the note-pads and in with the highly technically advanced uber cool not as many mistakes silverlight application. Less

developerFusion podcast: Scott Guthrie and Craig Shoemaker take some time out of PDC 2008 to discuss Silverlight and highlights from the keynote address. Scott shares about current-day Silverlight integrations with Live Mesh, living through the Olympics and what might be expected from Silverlight in the future. Less

While the rest of the the tech giants are focused on advertising-based business models around online video, Microsoft is betting on the area it knows the best; software and services. Seeking a big piece of the emerging field for video streaming and the demand for HD video, Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem for Silverlight, the new rich-media Web plug-in. On Tuesday, Microsoft and Akamai announced a program to provide dynamic web video streaming -- providing high quality video in Silverlight matched the user's Internet connection and the user's computer processing speed. Also on Tuesday, Microsoft's Eric Schmidt participated in the Beet.TV Online Video Roundtable. After the session, Eric spoke with Kelsey about the plan with Akamai and Microsoft's plans dynamic streaming of HD content. Although Microsoft might not have the glitz in the online video scene, the software behemoth might actually turn this into a big business. As Robert Scoble writes in his blog today, "Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to turn a corner." We agree. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Less

video, Web, Internet Wade Roush wrote: So, are Akamai and Brightcove—digital media companies located just a block apart in Cambridge’s Kendall Square—partners, rivals, or both? The confusion grew today as Akamai said in a joint announcement with Microsoft that it will supply the network infrastructure behind a new “adaptive” system that streams high-definition video over the Internet at varying resolutions depending on the quality of the viewer’s broadband connection. Microsoft will supply the necessary Web server software for the service, which the two companies are calling Smooth HD. Just two weeks ago, Brightcove introduced a basically identical service as part of its new Brightcove 3 video hosting platform, which has already been adopted by such media giants as AOL and the New York Times. Brightcove calls the adaptive-streaming feature “Dynamic Delivery“; it creates multiple copies of a video at different resolutions, and chooses the highest quality stream possible, based on the viewer’s connection speed. What makes all this one-upsmanship even more interesting is that Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), which operates the world’s largest private network of content distribution servers, is one of Brightcove’s major suppliers. While Brightcove hosts its customers’ video files, it does not handle global distribution of the material—rather, it bundles access to content distribution networks like Akamai, Limelight, and Level 3 with its overall hosting package. In essence, Akamai will now provide a similar service directly to companies that choose to host and distribute video on their own, using Microsoft’s Internet Information Server 7.0 Web server software and the Microsoft Silverlight video format. (Brightcove’s videos use the Adobe Flash format, which Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire helped to create when he was with the San Jose, CA-based media giant.) Akamai says that its new service, called Akamai AdaptiveEdge Streaming for Microsoft Silverlight, will be available to “select customers” in beta form in early 2009. But it has already created a “technology preview” website demonstrating the Smooth HD technology. (The video on the site, including Jon Bon Jovi videos and underwater-exploration documentaries, streams with impressive immediacy and clarity. But you’ll need to download the Silverlight player, which works on both Windows machines and Intel-based Macs, to watch it.) In their announcement, Akamai and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) say that media companies that publish high-definition video on the web—but arrange for the video quality to gracefully degrade depending on the user’s connection speed, rather than subjecting users to repeated buffering waits—will benefit from longer viewing times, greater brand awareness, and higher advertising revenues. “The challenge is that capabilities in the online world vary greatly for each user,” Tim Napoleon, Akamai’s chief strategist for digital media, said in the statement. “Adaptive streaming allows the video to adjust to the audience, maximizing each user’s experience.” Will Richmond, editor/publisher of the Boston-based Internet video news site VideoNuze, drives that point home in the Microsoft-Akamai release: “Especially in the HD era, premium video providers are recognizing that quality is king and as a result are accelerating their shift to more robust delivery infrastructure.” Indeed they are—as Brightcove’s own highly publicized customer wins in the last couple of weeks testify. But Allaire told me in a recent interview that he does not see Akamai as a direct competitor. Brightcove users tend to see Akamai and other CDNs as the equivalent of telecom companies, providing a utility service separate from a company’s business applications. “I’m certainly aware of Akamai trying to add different things to what they do, and it’s certainly something we keep an eye on, but [competition with Akamai] is not something we’re seeing in the customer segment we’re serving with a product like this,” meaning Brightcove 3, Allaire said. Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail Less

The authoring tools for Microsoft's Silverlight, the new rich-media Web plug-in, will soon be available for those working on Macs and on open source programs. The software giant hopes to accelerate the use of Silverlight on different operating systems through the funding of a project to be undertaken by Soyatec, a France-based IT solutions provider and Eclipse Foundation member. The announcement was made today. Currently, Silverlight authoring tools are largely limited to PC's, which is surely a limitation to its use as so many in the video production field use Macs. The company also announced today the release of Silverlight 2.0 On Friday, I interviewed Brian Goldfarb, Group Product Manager for Silverlight. I interviewed him via Skype and the connect was not as good as we would like. But, it's great to catch up with Brian on all the developments with Silverlight. He says the program now resides on computers reaching one in four consumers worldwide. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Less

BLOCKBUSTER Total Access click to activate coupon for $10 off your first month. Free Information on EVault 1-866-928-0735 Dell to Sell Most Factories NBC Dumps Silverlight Facebook for Spies SDR News is a Daily (M-F) Technology Podcast with Tech News Highlights from Slashdot, Digg and Reddit Click Here to Sign Up for the SDR Newsletter Prefer a Direct Download ? (mp3) Download today’s show. SDR News Links If a news item has disappeared from the Del.icio.us list above, try the full list here. Thumbnail Views: Via Thumblicio.us SEARCH ANY STORY YOU HEAR ON THE PODCAST Social Networking Limits by Andrew McCaskey Setting up a Facebook/YouTube clone for various intelligence agencies sounds like a good idea. The public enthusiasm is a reward for agencies working to 1) Get over the same sorts of behavior that allowed the attacks of 9/11 to occur 2) Avoid criticism on aged equipment and procedures like their counterparts at the FAA with the Air Traffic Control System and 3) capitalize on the current trend and buzz associated with social media in all forms. It all sounds like a wonderful PR spin to me. As much as we would all like for it to be true, there have got to be some incredible issues on “how does that happen really ?” Large organizations with various databases and systems are notarious in their difficulty in merging information and systems. Thousands of SAP specialists roam the globe performing those very tasks on legacy systems of all forms. I have to admit to a very large degree of skeptical prejudice when there is any talk of smoothly implementing such a fusion in any large institution. And I can think of no larger, partitioned and cumbersome aggregation of multiple technologies and agendas that the one that this technolgy supposedly solves. It was a great demo for CNN. Now, lets see some assurance that there really is a roll-out. Contact Us CES 2008 Coverage for Tech Podcast Network Astounding Curta Mechanical Calculator Watch Today’s Video Episode Click to view videos submitted or recommended by other SDR podcast listeners. . . If you find a YouTube video that pertains to one of our news items, or have produced an item that would be of interest to SDR listeners, please send us the link slashdotreview{at}gmail.com Save $10 on any order of $50 or more at GoDaddy.com! Be sure to sign up for our upcoming roundtable. We will be using GoToMeeting. Also, be sure to check out GoToMeeting. Why? Because you can hold meetings right over the Net — from anywhere. Plus, you can hold all the meetings you want for one flat rate. To get your free 30-day trial , visit www.gotomeeting.com/techroundtable. Take 10% off any order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH Take $5 off any $30 order at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH2 .com Domains $6.95 at GoDaddy.com! Code SLASH3 More blogs about SlashdotReview… Slashdot Review by Email - Sign up here: Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz Less

After Microsoft's Silverlight role as video platoform for the Beijing Olympics, it will likely become more pervasive. Here is our interview with Microsoft's Eric Schmidt Less

The number of unique visitors to NBC Olympics video site soared to over two million on Monday as viewers tuned into the Games from the workplace, Nielsen announced today. These numbers show that the much-grumbled about time delay of the online coverage hasn't had a negative effect on online ratings. Not all of the coverage is delayed: Eric Schmidt, Director of Media and Advertising Evangalism at Microsoft, explains how live streaming for NBC Olympics coverage works. The Microsoft Silverlight player, which powers NBC's Olympics coverage, streams live content using Windows Media Services, he says. On-demand content is streamed through a combination of Windows Media Services and HTTP. Schmidt also describes how video is delivered from live feeds in Beijing to content delivery networks to the Silverlight player. Andy interviewed Schmidt in the Beet.TV offices last week. --Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer Less

The number of unique visitors to NBC Olympics video site soared to over two million on Monday as viewers tuned into the Games from the workplace, Nielsen announced today. These numbers show that the much-grumbled about time delay of the online coverage hasn't had a negative effect on online ratings. Not all of the coverage is delayed: Eric Schmidt, Director of Media and Advertising Evangalism at Microsoft, explains how live streaming for NBC Olympics coverage works. The Microsoft Silverlight player, which powers NBC's Olympics coverage, streams live content using Windows Media Services, he says. On-demand content is streamed using a combination of Windows Media Services and http servers. Schmidt also describes how video is delivered from live feeds in Beijing to content delivery networks to the Silverlight player. Andy interviewed him in the Beet.TV offices last week. Update: The Associated Press has just published a report about Olympics viewing habits online and on mobile phones. Update: 8.14: A story in The New York Times this morning gives a behind-the-scenes look at how NBC announcers cover the Olympics from New York. --Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer Below are the Nielsen numbers released tonight: Posted on Beet.TV on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 http://www.beet.tv/2008/08/the-number-of-u.html Less

For those of us who don't like to see overlay ads pop up from time to time while watching video, you won't see any on the NBC Olympics coverage on MSN. That's a mandate from the International Olympic Committee, which keeps tight control of the way the Games are presented. Microsoft's Eric Schmidt is one of the key executives in the MSN/NBC Sports joint effort for online coverage of the Olympics in the United States. He came by the Beet.TV studios on Friday to fill us in on various technical and advertising-related topics around the Olympics. The ad formats will be much like on television, with pre-roll ads and in-stream ads inserted between events. This is the first insertion of Google's DoubleClick ads into Silverlight, the new Microsoft rich-media platform. The agreement to integrate DoubleClick and Silverlight was announced just last week. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Less

For those of us who don't like to see overlay ads pop up or stream while watching video, you won't see any on the NBC Olympics coverage on MSN. That's a mandate from the International Olympic Committee, which keeps tight control of the way the Games are presented. Microsoft's Eric Schmidt is one of the key executives in the MSN/NBC Sports joint effort for online coverage of the Olympics in the United States. He came by the Beet.TV studios on Friday to fill us in on various technical and advertising-related topics around the Olympics. The ad formats are much like on television, with pre-roll ads and in-stream ads inserted between pauses in events. All the ad inventory is managed by Google's DoubleClick. This is the first insertion of DoubleClick ads into Silverlight, the new Microsoft rich-media platform. The agreement to integrate DoubleClick and Silverlight was announced just last week. -- Andy Plesser, Executive Producer Posted on Beet.TV on Monday, August 11, 2008 http://www.beet.tv/2008/08/no-overlay-ads.html Less

Who needs DVR when you can watch the 2008 Summer Olympics Live at NBCOlympics.com.  With over 2200 hours of live Olympic footage and more feature and profile pieces than you know what to do with...it's the place to be this summer.  Using Silverlight 2.0 you can watch up to four live events at one time.  I recruited Ex-BMX racer Eric Schmidt to give us a walk-thru of this superb user experience. Less

Adam Kinney stops by the Channel 10 Studios and takes us through the HardRock.com memorabilia site.  It's built with Silverlight and we've seem glimpses before but now we're bringing you the whole tour.  Check out the finger prints of your favorite musicians, the tires on Bono's motorcycle and a letter from Madonna. Cool stuff people. Less