Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Popfly http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/249371_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Popfly You probably haven't heard of it, but you're also probably going to start hearing a lot about it in the near future. Popfly is being announced today - as I'm posting this, actually. To keep it short and simple so you can get right to watching the video, Popfly makes it easy for non-devs to create web sites, mashups, and more. Drag, drag, click - you've got a Flikr + Virtual Earth mashup. You can even point and click your way to a Vista Gadget. No kidding. After watching our video, check out the overview here and there is also an article over on techcrunch. en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:09:37 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:09:37 GMT Rev9 Re: Popfly http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=91175!

posted by Adam Nathan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151018180000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 16:16:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151018180000000 Adam Nathan Re: Popfly
Why did Techcrunch and the Scobleizer get a heads-up when Microsoft community bloggers didn't?


Greetings!

We have received your request for an invitation to Popfly. We will e-mail your invitation when we send out our next batch of invites. If you have any further questions about Popfly, you can reach the Popfly team at our Popfly User Feedback address: suf@microsoft.com

Cheers,

The Popfly Team


Cheers, is that how you great people in the Great Northwest?

Greetings was the way the US Draft board greated you.

posted by eagle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151030920000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 16:38:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151030920000000 eagle Re: Popfly Dan Fernandez is a woman? Who knew?

posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151031090000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 16:38:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151031090000000 Minh Re: Popfly Great Video Rory-

This looks awesome.

Nice add in for Visual Studio for devs.
Nice web interface for both devs and non-devs.

Tools like these are going to bring even more and more people into development - this is going to be a great tech!

posted by tewissler

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151056590000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 17:20:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151056590000000 tewissler Re: Popfly Great video, popfly will realy rock when it comes out Big Smile

One thing bothers me though - I am not that much of a web developer although I have some experiences, just not with ASP.NET/web services etc - I am kinda basic scripting lanuage+sql guy. So the question is - do I need IIS/Windows machine to run Popfly? Or is it completely static content and you can run it from let's say OpenBSD with Apache/Lighttpd (that's what I would do) so everything is executed on client machine in a browser? 
Where is it  hosted/executed? Thx for answers Smiley

posted by RoyalSchrubber

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151060070000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 17:26:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151060070000000 RoyalSchrubber Re: Popfly  is the British way though Wink.

posted by Andy_S

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151060690000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 17:27:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151060690000000 Andy_S Re: Popfly posted by jamie

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151061700000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 17:29:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151061700000000 jamie Re: Popfly
jamie wrote:
so is this why c9 ver 4 is taking so long? will it have Popfly support (ie; the sandbox gadgets etc ?


V4 is written on a completely different code base. That is the reason it's taking a while to complete... It's a monumental task and the dev team has been cranking really, really hard. It has nothing to do with Popfly support, though that's an interesting idea, Jamie.

C

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151071210000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 17:45:21 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151071210000000 Charles Re: Popfly posted by Gannotti

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151075140000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 17:51:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151075140000000 Gannotti Re: Popfly
Minh wrote:
Dan Fernandez is a woman? Who knew?



Why do you laugh with Dan because he has a high voice?

posted by ZippyV

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151088910000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 18:14:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151088910000000 ZippyV Re: Popfly
Popfly - with it's Visual Studio integration, ease of creating gadgets and displaying data - looks like the perfect place to create a community of people built around Microsoft technology. Hell, it's obviously not aimed at the mainstream, and the Advanced View to edit modules has some incredible power.

The team says they're working on allowing people to share Windows Forms programs, and I'll bet WPF is easy enough.

I am seriously impressed. It can grab amateurs, and has some features for more advanced users. The social element looks well thought-out and the ability to "Rip" mashups is, well, totally cool.

Gannotti: You've spent too much time working for Microsoft Smiley Something like that would be pretty cool though, particularly for Sales folks. It'd be a perfect complementry product to fold into Microsoft Dynamics.

posted by Michael Griffiths

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151091430000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 18:19:03 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151091430000000 Michael Griffiths Re: Popfly
Charles wrote:

jamie wrote:
so is this why c9 ver 4 is taking so long? will it have Popfly support (ie; the sandbox gadgets etc ?


V4 is written on a completely different code base. That is the reason it's taking a while to complete... It's a monumental task and the dev team has been cranking really, really hard. It has nothing to do with Popfly support, though that's an interesting idea, Jamie.

C



We hope that C9 V4 will be Silverlight and Silverbright.

posted by eagle

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151091850000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 18:19:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151091850000000 eagle Re: Popfly
Sad

I like the ducks on the home page though.

//Ducks are super cool.

posted by phreaks

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151092100000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 18:20:10 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151092100000000 phreaks Re: Popfly http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=308523#308523

Thanks!

posted by littleguru

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151103160000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 18:38:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151103160000000 littleguru Re: Popfly
ZippyV wrote:

Minh wrote:
Dan Fernandez is a woman? Who knew?


Why do you laugh with Dan because he has a high voice?

Really? Oops! Sorry. I didn't know. I thought it was someone else doing the voice-over. I hadn't watch Rory's video either. I just saw the demo. (feeling embarassed).

I just watched the video. ZippyV, stop messing w/ me! Smiley

posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151120200000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 19:07:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151120200000000 Minh Re: Popfly
Minh wrote:
Dan Fernandez is a woman? Who knew?



LOL, you guys crack me up, I'm a guy (see my other C9 videos for "proof") and my voice isn't that high.

As this is C9, I'll give you some background. Suzanne Thompson is the Program Manager who works on things like user feedback, tutorials, screencasts, etc. Early on she started to do some demo screencasts and, although she has no professional voice training, we thought she sounded like a Pro. Rather than use my inferior voice, we went with Suzanne for all of the videos.

For this actual video, I wrote a demo script for Suzanne to read aloud (with her edits of course) and we met up early this week to record on my laptop/account.

We used Camtasia for the screencase and she read the script aloud while I followed along "driving" the PC. In general it's easier to record the audio *after* the video.

In any case, I have not had a sex change operation Smiley


posted by Dan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151138020000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 19:36:42 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151138020000000 Dan Re: Popfly

posted by Charles

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151186320000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 20:57:12 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151186320000000 Charles Re: Popfly Microsoft continues to rock the world.

posted by vshamanovsky

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151206410000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 21:30:41 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151206410000000 vshamanovsky Re: Popfly
I kindof reminds me of "Robolab" - the school edition of Lego Mindstroms

Sweet Big Smile

posted by swiatecki

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151237110000000 Fri, 18 May 2007 22:21:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151237110000000 swiatecki Re: Popfly
Very cool that you can share your VS projects...

Plus its great to see a non-movie playing Silverlight app Smiley

Can't wait to see how cool / easy it is to write the blocks...

posted by ben2004uk

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151625980000000 Sat, 19 May 2007 09:09:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151625980000000 ben2004uk Re: Popfly
One question though.. Popfly is aimed at developers and non-devs. I have to ask: how many non-developers are going to create mashups and the like?

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151762390000000 Sat, 19 May 2007 12:57:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151762390000000 Bas Re: Popfly
Going to be cool!!  I admit, I prefer the fact that you can share projects around friends - could be very cool to see what everyone is working on quickly and easily.

posted by ben2004uk

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151869840000000 Sat, 19 May 2007 15:56:24 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151869840000000 ben2004uk Re: Popfly
But honestly, not only would I say that Microsoft is the most innovative tech company currently on the block but, it's the most open which of course is key in accelarating and securing the adoption of the platform. I'm vaguely aware of things Apple and Google are working on only because I know a few people that love to talk about things that are 'Top Secret'. The first Core Animation Beta is set to release in about 3 weeks and still the major peice of information is a marketing video of a "3D Photo-Domino". I think by the same time in WPF's history there had been nearly a year of CTP's, ton's of docs, articles, blogs from the developers and evangilists on all major aspects of the platform and even a book on the market. This is why I hate to see Apple gain market share... I dont want to have to be in the unforunate position of having to design and write apps for a company that's run like the CIA when it comes to releasing developer oriented information.

posted by BloomingVision

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151983770000000 Sat, 19 May 2007 19:06:17 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633151983770000000 BloomingVision Re: Popfly
ben2004uk wrote:
Imagine all this kind of stuff on people's MySpace/LiveSpace.... that is where the non-devs will love it - I think anyway.


Yeah, see.. Kids on MySpace creating mashups? I just don't see that happening.

posted by Bas

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633152685590000000 Sun, 20 May 2007 14:35:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633152685590000000 Bas Re: Popfly

posted by oyobooks

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633153123150000000 Mon, 21 May 2007 02:45:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633153123150000000 oyobooks Re: Popfly
I'm going with the crowd on this one - its going to rock.

Who're the 25 C9ers?

posted by Lloyd_Humph

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633153699640000000 Mon, 21 May 2007 18:46:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Rory/Popfly#c633153699640000000 Lloyd_Humph