I couldn’t make it to Mix this year, which is a real shame as from what I’ve heard it was a great conference. To try and catch up I’ve spent a good few hours this week watching videos of the sessions over on the Mix site. Now I think the Mix site is great, having these sessions online and …
Author archives: Tom Basham
Video Transcoding in the Cloud
An interesting bit of new functionality here… the new beta of Silverlight Streaming includes the ability to upload a video file in a format not recognised by Silverlight and have a service in the cloud automatically transcode it into a wmv that can be streamed. (Spotted over at Angus’s Blog)
Selling Microsoft
Yesterday I was doing my daily trawl through Google Reader and came across an interesting post over on Liveside.net about Re-branding Microsoft. I commented on it at the time but was thinking about it a bit more while I was driving to work this morning. For the most part I still disagree with the post …
IPTV
I’ve just been catching up on a few days worth of Tweets and Blog posts. One of the articles I’ve been reading was a piece on c|net about the MS Mediaroom IPTV solution. It sounds like there are 1 million or so people on the system now which is great. My guess is a fair …
Wow-ee Wow Wow!
How to talk like Frank… http://artofmanliness.com/2008/02/11/talk-like-frank-sinatra/