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At the Web 2.0 Expo, Michael Scherotter talks with John Pozadzides from Layered Technologies about their grid computing technology.  Grid computing is where many systems are assembled together to create one large computing system with vast amounts of processor power, RAM, and storage....

When I was at the NAB show earlier this month, I met Dan Gustafson from Video4Ever who proceded to show me the coolest Silverlight application for watching high school sporting events and including scoreboard/event data. 

Michael Scherotter just visited CrystalTech a web hosting provider in Scottsdale, Arizona. President Bob Cichon took Michael on a tour of the data center. 
At $2.95 per month for an ASP.Net 3.5 developer account Michael is also a customer of CrystalTech with his xmldocs.net site. 

At South by Southwest, Michael Scherotter met Jeff Sass of Myxer a company that has built an ASP.net/SQL Server-based web service for ad-supported mobile content.
They were at SxSW to show their service to artists and musicians to be able to get their content into mobile ringtones and other mobile-oriented...

At South by Southwest in Austin, Tamara Phillips of Desktop Music Channel showed Michael Scherotter a Software+Services solution that includes a compelling desktop applications with service-based push technology.
The Desktop Music Channel is a new way for artists and bands to create...

At the South by Southwest Music tradeshow, we meet Jamison Stafford and Matt Kauffman from Iventa, an e-commerce vendor that has a SaaS solution built entirely on .Net and SQL Server.  Jamison tells about the company walks through the application, showing the Grateful Dead online store as one...

Usually behind the camera, Michael Scherotter sat down with Hip Hop icon Ice Cube at South by Southwest before he was scheduled to perform at a free live concert streamed to his new UVNTV.com site using Silverlight for high-quality video.  Michael asked Cube questions about the intersection...

Working to get the SxSW Ice Cube concert streamed live in Silverlight, I've gotten to know Mio and Randy at iStreamPlanet.  Because of their expertise in streaming live events to the web, Microsoft contracts with them to do many live events like the Mix keynotes. 
I sat down with...

Starz Entertainment, the providers of premium TV channels like Starz and Encore and Vongo downloadable movies has built their entire media infrastructure around Windows Media.  Stephen Smith, Director of Media System Integration walks us through the entire workflow and architecture of the system...

Joshua Jacobson, Product Manager for Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista gives Michael Scherotter a tour of the latest beta of the product.  The coolest feature in this latest version built using WPF is voice visualizations that animate graphically based on the audio.  This latest...