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 […]
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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 […]
Michael Dell on Social Media
Shel Israel posted up a pretty good interview with Michael Dell about Social Media in Dell. Dell seem to do a really good job at this, the various blogs and sites they use to connect to customers work well. They’re certainly far ahead of most hardware vendors I’ve spoken to recently. It’s good to see […]