Ben Waggoner

Some of you have asked me about Scott Guthrie's twitter mention of the Xbox 360 Silverlight advertising demo at Cannes. So, yes, Silverlight 3 is coming to the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live. We're mainly discussing this in the context of advertising at this point.We've got some more info up about it at…

Streaming Media has been doing a series of online workshops on various topics. They themselves are live streaming, with a chat backchannel which. It’s great to showcase the technology in itself like this. I myself have been guilty of “typing about moving images” plenty of times; a sin up there with…

It’s Streaming Media East this week. Alas, I’m racing towards a book deadline, and so am skipping the show for the first time in years. I miss it; it’s long been one my favorite shows of the year, and an extremely productive place to meet with customers, partners, as well as a family reunion for us…

Novell has just released the first Moonlight 2.0 Preview, dubbed Moonlight 1.9. It adds a bunch of new Silverlight 2 features, and offers compatibility with many more sites. Near and dear to my heart, it supports Smooth Streaming. Deep Zoom is also working. The mono team has tons of info, so here’s…

Oh, I’ve been so remiss in blogging this. Fortunately the submission date just got extended (not a great idea to a media technology due date so close to NAB…). As my long-time readers my remember, I joined the board of the DVD Association a while back. Since then, we’ve been expanding our mission…

So, this is irrationally exciting for me; what's perhaps the first UGC (user-generated content) in Smooth Streaming. Two of our awesome evangelists, Tim Heuer and Arturo Toldeo were in New Zealand for WEB09. They were invited to do a code-off with three Adobe representatives to build a cool app to…

Our friends at CDNetworks announced their adoption of Smooth Streaming last week. And now they’ve have made a very cool new Smooth Streaming demo site: http://www.nextcdn.com/Silverlight.htm. It builds on the SmoothHD and IIS.net demos with a very nice GUI, and an awesome use of some of…

So, it's the end of Monday here in Las Vegas, and I've already got Thursday voice. I wish I could explain with a great Vegas story involving cigars and bourbon, but it's actually a nasty virus from my three year old that's been hammering me for a couple of weeks. So I'm skipping the Akamai shindig…

Okay, as promised here's the actual location of the Compressionist Party tomorrow, Tuesday, April 21.It's at the Encore at Wynn (aka "Wynn Encore" and "Encore Las Vegas") Tower Suite 1805.As promised 6-9 pm. There should be some beverages and light snacks.RSVP isn't required, but…

I was out sick last week, and I’m not emotionally prepared to admit that NAB is next week. But it shall be, and once again, I shall be there. Compressionist Party: Tuesday, April 21st, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm And, as many of you have emailed me to ask about, yes, we’ll be doing the Compressionist Party…