{"id":499,"date":"2009-08-18T21:14:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2009-08-18T21:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T21:17:40","slug":"ted-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/ted-player\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/image_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"281\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI think I\u2019ve posted a few times before about <a title=\"TED\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a>, it\u2019s 20 minute videos are fantastic, and the iPhone app in particular is a great way to pass time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just catching up on my email and RSS feeds and spotted a post over on <a title=\"Steve Claytons Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/stevecla01\/archive\/2009\/08\/14\/ted-player.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Claytons<\/a> blog about a Sliverlight based TED player from <a title=\"thirteen23.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thirteen23.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thirteen23<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a nice little app that does nothing but present TED talks to your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen23 seem like a great little company, they&#8217;ve released a few WPF and Silverlight apps such as the <a title=\"Blu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thirteen23.com\/experiences\/desktop\/blu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blu twitter client<\/a> and each one looks amazing and works pretty well.\u00a0 I like the way that they build desktop apps for web based services in much the same way as people are doing for the iPhone.\u00a0 Whilst there are lots of Twitter clients out there, not many people are doing things for other services or sites like TED.\u00a0 It\u2019s good to see.<\/p>\n<p>If only someone would let them loose on Xbox Live\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen23 bring an iPhone style TED application to Windows and Mac&#8217;s using Silverlight.  If only they&#8217;d provide one for Xbox Live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101,239,321],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-silverlight","tag-ted","tag-xbox-live-iphone","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}