How Is Silverlight Really Doing?
Silverlight 1.0 was released about a year ago now, maybe a good time to do a reality check! About a year ago their were 0 installs of Silverlight out there. Today, there are nearly 1.5 Million Downloads a day of Silverlight. Most of the applications and web sites that use Silverlight at this point are heavy duty video sites, as Silverlight 1.0 was mainly a streaming video application. With the Release of Silverlight 2.0
Below are some of the most impressive Silverlight implementations out there.
Top 10 Silverlight Implementations
Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia
Browse through thousands of pieces of Rock-n-Roll memorabilia in the Hard Rock collection! Hard Rock just launched the Hard Rock Memorabilia site using Silverlight 2 “Deep Zoom” technology, allowing you to zoom in seamlessly and see incredible detail like fingerprints and photographer’s reflections on the pieces in the collection.
NBC Beijing Olympics
22 sports for 2,200 hours of live streaming video. That’s a ton of video! Not only that, but you are going to have a ton of interactive data wrapped around what you are watching. The NBC Olympics demo was a highlight of the MIX08 keynote; an incredible media-viewing experience built in Silverlight. Here is the footage from the keynote. You can also see an interview with Perkins Miller talking about their solution here. This will be the “coming out” party for Silverlight.
Microsoft Videos
Microsoft Videos is your central location for viewing rich media from Microsoft. Scan our Quick Picks for the latest videos, enter a search, or choose from our Video Categories. Then tell us what you think by rating what you’ve watched. If you like what you see, share it with a friend or colleague, or link to it in your blog using one of our community features.
WWE / ECW X-Stream
WWE.com will use the Silverlight technology as the primary video display and interactive experience. Currently, WWE.com offers more than 14,000 individual video clips, including original online shows, highlights from weekly WWE programming and classic moments in WWE’s long and legendary history.
Microsoft Health Common User Interface
The Microsoft Health Common User Interface (CUI) provides User Interface Design Guidance and Toolkit controls that address a wide range of patient safety concerns for healthcare organizations worldwide, allowing a new generation of safer, more usable and compelling health applications to be quickly and easily created.
Torque TV
A digital television network for viewers who want broadcast quality automotive programs wherever and whenever they want to watch, and for advertisers who want a more targeted, more measurable way to reach customers.
Microsoft Popfly
Allows user to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Microsoft Silverlight rich Internet applications runtime and the set of online tools provided. Popfly is currently in Beta stage of development.
Wish43
Presents a new kind of graphical user interface for 43 Things. It displays user profile icons and goals shared by those users. The goals with more users who’ve listed them as their goals appear larger. If you ever wanted to know what the collective Internet’s dreams and desires were at any given time, this is a rather random way of taking a peak.
RobotChamps
While there has long been a large audience interested in robotics, there have also been a number of barriers to entry, both real and perceived. Robots are not widely available in traditional retail stores. If one could find a programmable robot, the cost was often times non-trivial. RoboChamps is more specifically built on top of the simulation functionality provided in Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008, which means that participants can program their robots using the .NET languages they are already familiar with.
Microsoft Live@edu
Looking for innovative solutions for keeping your students connected? Learn about Live@edu, Microsoft’s newest platform for delivering student and alumni email, communication and collaboration services.
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