Facebook API's and Brian Goldfarb

I had to post this video of our wise and fearless marketing leader Brian Goldfarb demonstrating the power of Silverlight and WPF at the Facebook conference (per my blog below). Courtesy of Rafe Needleman



Microsoft shows off Facebook Open Stream API demos from Rafe Needleman on Vimeo.

Facebook API's and Silverlight

We demonstrated some very interesting integration with Windows, WPF and Silverlight with Facebooks new Open Stream API's. We participated in thier developer event yesterday to demonstrate some of the integration that could be achieved between MS and Facebook.

We released more detail on our team blog but needless to say we are not standing still and will be providing more info and detail on our plans here shortly. Here is a snip of some of the info from our blog:

Microsoft and Facebook have been working together since 2007 via the Facebook Developer Toolkit – a first of its kind open source solution to help developers integrate into and build applications for Facebook users. If you are building an application for the web, desktop, or mobile, and want to make it social and integrate it with Facebook, we will provide the tools and resources you need to create visually stunning, cutting edge applications faster than ever before.



At the event, we gave an early look at what will be possible by demonstrating canonical applications built with Silverlight and .NET. First we showed a Windows application, built with WPF, that shows the power of what .NET and Windows has to offer, via caching and sync, incredible performance, feed integration, automatic docking and adaptive UI, taskbar integration, search and more. The second was a Web application, built with Silverlight, that shows feed integration, profile exploring, and an incredible DeepZoom-based image viewing

experience with unique UX constructs for viewing large amounts of feed and friends-related photographic data. We will continue to build out these apps and will also ship the sourcecode in the future.

NAB 2009, Deepzoompix.com

Yesterday @ NAB here in Las Vegas we announced release of our Smooth Streaming technology. Smooth Streaming is a feature of our Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services and we announced several key customers that are currently implementing it. Customers like NBC Sports for the Olympics in 2010, HSN, RIA, TV2, and CTV. Smooth Streaming is key to video delivery and provides minimal buffering and fast start up time, and allows the Silverlight player to work efficiently over HTTP to adapt the quality of the video stream in real time, based upon the consumer’s changing bandwidth, CPU utilization and frame rates.

Media companies can take advantage of Smooth Streaming features to boost advertising and subscription revenues by using true high-definition (HD) video (1080p) with uninterrupted delivery to extend viewing times. Smooth Streaming takes advantage of existing HTTP infrastructure and brings scale to media experiences delivered using HTTP.

We also showcased Akamai's Adaptive Edge, which is thier implementation of Smooth Streaming offered in a complete managed service for thier customers.

Several other CDN's announced support for Smooth Streaming: AT&T, Internap Network Services Corp., Level 3 Communications LLC and Limelight Networks Inc., as well as encoding product vendors including Digital Rapids, Envivio Inc., Grab Networks Inc. (Anystream), Inlet Technologies, Rhozet, Telestream Inc., VBrick Systems Inc., ViewCast Corp. and Winnov Inc., have all announced products and services supporting Smooth Streaming

We are also showcasing all of this in our booth (if you are here check it out in the South Hall, L720).

We also announced a new photo sharing service built in Silverlight and taking heavy advantage of Deepzoom. It's called Deepzoompix.com, and allows you to easily upload, or import photos from popular sharing services like Flickr and then display them quickly as a deepzoom collection.