Communicating - Channel 9 This show focuses on how companies in telecommunications, media & entertainment, and web hosting are using Microsoft developer technologies. Microsoft Communications Sector Evangelists go around North America to interview and highlight the ways in which the industry is addressing the convergence of media, telecommunications, and web technologies. Microsoft http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/Dev/App_Themes/C9/images/feedimage.png Communicating - Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating This show focuses on how companies in telecommunications, media & entertainment, and web hosting are using Microsoft developer technologies. Microsoft Communications Sector Evangelists go around North America to interview and highlight the ways in which the industry is addressing the convergence of media, telecommunications, and web technologies. http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating en Tue, 21 May 2013 05:35:05 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 05:35:05 GMT Rev9 41 2 25 The FoxFast Windows 8 App Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution licenses TV shows and movies to broadcasters around the world.  In 30 days, a team of Silverlight and .NET developers at Fox built an app for Windows 8 and published it to the Windows Store.  The FoxFast app for Windows 8 is for their worldwide broadcast partners to find, learn about, securely screen, and pick marketing assets to use to promote their shows.  Take a look at this video about the app that they created to share their excitement with their broadcast partners.

If you are a fan of Twentieth Century Fox shows or movies, you should check out the Fox Now and FX Networks Windows 8 Apps in the Windows Store today.

Because this video contains copyright material, it is not available for download.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/FoxFast8 Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution licenses TV shows and movies to broadcasters around the world.  In 30 days, a team of Silverlight and .NET developers at Fox built an app for Windows 8 and published it to the Windows Store.  The FoxFast app for Windows 8 is for their worldwide broadcast partners to find, learn about, securely screen, and pick marketing assets to use to promote their shows.  Take a look at this video about the app that they created to share their excitement with their broadcast partners. If you are a fan of Twentieth Century Fox shows or movies, you should check out the Fox Now and FX Networks Windows 8 Apps in the Windows Store today. Because this video contains copyright material, it is not available for download. 70 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/FoxFast8 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/FoxFast8 Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/FoxFast8/RSS Media Windows 8 Cinnafilm at NAB Cinnafilm to learn about their Pixel Strings GPU Engine and their Dark Energy software, some very cool image processing technology for film and video processing.
You can see some samples of what their software does here.

Note: The titles in the interview are slightly incorrect - in my rush to get this out, I mistyped Chris and Don's titles.  They are actually CTO and VP, Media & Entertainment, respectively. - MSS 4/20/2010 ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Cinnafilm-at-NAB At NAB Michael Scherotter sat down with Chris Gorman (CTO) and Don Levy (VP, Media & Entertainment) from Cinnafilm to learn about their Pixel Strings GPU Engine and their Dark Energy software, some very cool image processing technology for film and video processing. You can see some samples of what their software does here. Note: The titles in the interview are slightly incorrect - in my rush to get this out, I mistyped Chris and Don's titles.  They are actually CTO and VP, Media & Entertainment, respectively. - MSS 4/20/2010 959 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Cinnafilm-at-NAB Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:31:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Cinnafilm-at-NAB Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Cinnafilm-at-NAB/RSS Video Videos Associated Press at Mix 2010 We were lucky to be able to sit down with Jeffrey Litvack and Jonathan Malek from the Associated Press, one of the most respected and oldest suppliers of news

content in the industry.  Jeffrey and Jonathan discuss how the rapidly changing news industry is requiring the AP to dramatically change its strategic roadmap.  The future of AP includes an all new Silverlight-based Desktop News Reader using targeting advertising backed up by all new Azure services for desktop, mobile and tablet devices. You will be surprised to learn an entirely new architecture is going to released based largely on Microsoft’s technology stack.   

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Associated-Press-at-Mix-2010 We were lucky to be able to sit down with Jeffrey Litvack and Jonathan Malek from the Associated Press, one of the most respected and oldest suppliers of news content in the industry.  Jeffrey and Jonathan discuss how the rapidly changing news industry is requiring the AP to dramatically change its strategic roadmap.  The future of AP includes an all new Silverlight-based Desktop News Reader using targeting advertising backed up by all new Azure services for desktop, mobile and tablet devices. You will be surprised to learn an entirely new architecture is going to released based largely on Microsoft’s technology stack.    783 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Associated-Press-at-Mix-2010 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:15:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Associated-Press-at-Mix-2010 Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Associated-Press-at-Mix-2010/RSS Silverlight Windows Phone 7 WP7 USA Today at Mix 2010 ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/USA-Today-at-Mix-2010 We grabbed a coffee and sat down with Steve Kurtz and Brett Coffman from USA Today digital to discuss the challenges they are facing in news distribution industry and how critical it is for them to have USA Today content across as many digital form factors as possible.  Learn how the nation’s premier new content provider has recently optimized their home page and are working with Microsoft to include a new Silverlight based sports salary application on their sports section – to continue in the theme of the what  USA Today  is known for "brief but relevant statistical news information" – one of their trademark signatures . 703 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/USA-Today-at-Mix-2010 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:51:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/USA-Today-at-Mix-2010 Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/USA-Today-at-Mix-2010/RSS Silverlight Comcast Chat at Mix 2010 ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Comcast-Chat-at-Mix-2010 We sat down with Chris Dixon and Shaun Gerhing from Comcast’s CIM(Comcast Interactive Media Group) to discuss how they are rapidly evolving Comcast members viewing experiences across four screens with new technology.  Part of their new member retainment and value add thinking involves a new Silverlight based linear TV discovery application that allows Comcast members to view content choices, program their DVR and even explore VOD(Video on Demand) choices all  from their desktop and eventually their mobile devices. 417 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Comcast-Chat-at-Mix-2010 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:39:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Comcast-Chat-at-Mix-2010 Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Comcast-Chat-at-Mix-2010/RSS Silverlight Ribbit for Silverlight - Overview Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

These videos contain a conversation between Crick Waters, SVP of BT/Ribbit, and Joseph Hofstader, Microsoft Architect/Evangelist.  This conversation describes the potential that Ribbit for Silverlight brings to web designers and application developers who wish to integrate communications features into their applications.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Overview Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones. These videos contain a conversation between Crick Waters, SVP of BT/Ribbit, and Joseph Hofstader, Microsoft Architect/Evangelist.  This conversation describes the potential that Ribbit for Silverlight brings to web designers and application developers who wish to integrate communications features into their applications. 496 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Overview Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:57:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Overview SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Overview/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications Ribbit for Silverlight SMS Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL SMS Control.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-SMS-Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL SMS Control. 181 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-SMS-Control Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:02:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-SMS-Control SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-SMS-Control/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications Ribbit for Silverlight - Active Call Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Active Call Control.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Active-Call-Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Active Call Control. 235 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Active-Call-Control Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:01:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Active-Call-Control SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Active-Call-Control/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications Ribbit for Silverlight - Dialpad Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Dialpad Control.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Dialpad-Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Dialpad Control. 232 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Dialpad-Control Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:58:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Dialpad-Control SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Dialpad-Control/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications Ribbit for Silverlight - Message Log Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Message Log Control.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Message-Log-Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Message Log Control. 179 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Message-Log-Control Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:56:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Message-Log-Control SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Message-Log-Control/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications Ribbit for Silverlight - Call Button and Login Controls Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Call Button and Login Controls.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Call-Button-and-Login-Controls Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Call Button and Login Controls. 234 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Call-Button-and-Login-Controls Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:50:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Call-Button-and-Login-Controls SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Call-Button-and-Login-Controls/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications Ribbit for Silverlight - Account Configuration Control Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.

This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Account Configuration Control.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Account-Configuration Ribbit, a wholly owned subsidiary of British Telecom based in Silicon Valley, recently released Ribbit for Silverlight.  Ribbit for Silverlight (R4SL) is an innovative approach to platform adoption in the world of cloud computing: give developers and designers a set of tools that allow them to rapidly develop applications that use platform services.  The initial controls give developers and designers the ability to initiate phone calls, conference calls, check on voice mail and send SMS messages from the PC or browser to mobile and desktop phones.This video features David Pallmann, Director of Neudesic's Custom Application Practice demonstrating the R4SL Account Configuration Control. 167 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Account-Configuration Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:47:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Account-Configuration SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Ribbit-for-Silverlight-Account-Configuration/RSS CaaS Cloud Computing Silverlight Silverlight 3 Telecommunications MySpace Qizmt, a .NET MapReduce Framework MapReduce framework for .NET called Qizmt as an open source project.  MapReduce is a software framework "to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers" Wikipedia. 
I interviewed Mikhael Berlyant, Executive Director of Information and Discovery and Daniel Rule, Data Mining Manager at MySpace to learn more about the framework that they built. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/MySpace-Qizmt-a-NET-MapReduce-Framework MySpace just released a MapReduce framework for .NET called Qizmt as an open source project.  MapReduce is a software framework "to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers" Wikipedia.  I interviewed Mikhael Berlyant, Executive Director of Information and Discovery and Daniel Rule, Data Mining Manager at MySpace to learn more about the framework that they built. 778 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/MySpace-Qizmt-a-NET-MapReduce-Framework Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:35:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/MySpace-Qizmt-a-NET-MapReduce-Framework Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/MySpace-Qizmt-a-NET-MapReduce-Framework/RSS .NET .NET Framework 3.5 .NET Framework MapReduce myspace CCR at MySpace MySpace has done some pretty amazing things with the Robotic Developer Studio.  When they found out it contained a very powerful component, the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR), the architects built it into the architecture of MySpace, the largest .NET site in the world.  At MySpace, I met Principal Architect Erik Nelson and Senior Architect Akash Patel who walked me through how they were using the CCR. 
If you have an MSDN subscription, you are a student, or you are at a qualifying startup, you can now download and use the Robotic Toolkit as part of the program. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CCR-at-MySpace MySpace has done some pretty amazing things with the Robotic Developer Studio.  When they found out it contained a very powerful component, the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR), the architects built it into the architecture of MySpace, the largest .NET site in the world.  At MySpace, I met Principal Architect Erik Nelson and Senior Architect Akash Patel who walked me through how they were using the CCR.  If you have an MSDN subscription, you are a student, or you are at a qualifying startup, you can now download and use the Robotic Toolkit as part of the program. 1169 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CCR-at-MySpace Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:22:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CCR-at-MySpace Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 4 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CCR-at-MySpace/RSS CCR myspace Robotics Robotics Studio Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 2 Kirk Evans talks with Dr. Michael Ludwich, VP of Consulting at Decentrix, where Dr. Ludwich provides a demonstration of the BIAnalytix solution.  This quite an interesting demonstration, helping to show the value of BI in a media organization.

In Part 1 of this interview, we talked with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company.  Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US.  We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering. 
In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix-Part-2 In this episode, host Kirk Evans talks with Dr. Michael Ludwich, VP of Consulting at Decentrix, where Dr. Ludwich provides a demonstration of the BIAnalytix solution.  This quite an interesting demonstration, helping to show the value of BI in a media organization. In Part 1 of this interview, we talked with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company.  Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US.  We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering.  In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix. 1010 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix-Part-2 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:52:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix-Part-2 Kirk Evans Kirk Evans 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix-Part-2/RSS Excel Excel 2007 Excel Services Office SharePoint SQL SQL 2008 SQL Server SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server Integration Services SQL Server Reporting Services SSAS SSIS SSRS Water Cooler Media Business Intelligence - Decentrix and BIAnalytix - Part 1 Kirk Evans talks with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company.  Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US.  We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering.  I learned a lot during this interview about the importance of BI in M&E, and Wayne is a very interesting guy to listen to. 

In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix In this episode, Kirk Evans talks with Wayne Ruting, CEO of Decentrix, about the importance of business intelligence in a Media & Entertainment company.  Decentrix has quite a client roster, including some of the largest broadcasters, cable operators, and telcos in the US.  We talk about why BI matters, how BI is not simply providing reports in a transactional application, and we learn more about Decentrix and their BIAnalytix offering.  I learned a lot during this interview about the importance of BI in M&E, and Wayne is a very interesting guy to listen to.  In part 2 of this interview, we will see a demo of BIAnalytix. 1596 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:18:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix Kirk Evans Kirk Evans 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Media-Business-Intelligence-Decentrix-and-BIAnalytix/RSS Excel Excel 2007 Excel Services MOSS MOSS2007 Office SharePoint SQL SQL 2008 SQL Server SQL Server 2008 SQL Server Analysis Services SQL Server Integration Services SQL Server Reporting Services Water Cooler Artist Explorer - a Silverlight 2 Mashup South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mashup applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided to create an entry using web services from Best Buy, The New York Times, Billboard, and Intelepeer (not a Mashery customer but one of our partners).  The mashup is an artist explorer that lets you research musical artists using the services and then lets you send an SMS message about your findings to anyone's mobile phone.
I will be releasing Silverlight kits with source code for each of the APIs (Best Buy, The New York Times, Billboard, and Intelepeer) shortly - watch my blog for more info on the kits.  With these Silverlight kits, developers and designers can access these companys' services and build cool applications with little to no coding - just Expression Blend. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Artist-Explorer-a-Silverlight-2-Mashup At the South by Southwest Interactive Conferece in Austin, Texas this past week, Mashery hosted a contest, Circus Mashimus to encourage people to create mashup applications using their customers' web services.  I learned about it a week before and decided to create an entry using web services from Best Buy, The New York Times, Billboard, and Intelepeer (not a Mashery customer but one of our partners).  The mashup is an artist explorer that lets you research musical artists using the services and then lets you send an SMS message about your findings to anyone's mobile phone. I will be releasing Silverlight kits with source code for each of the APIs (Best Buy, The New York Times, Billboard, and Intelepeer) shortly - watch my blog for more info on the kits.  With these Silverlight kits, developers and designers can access these companys' services and build cool applications with little to no coding - just Expression Blend. 359 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Artist-Explorer-a-Silverlight-2-Mashup Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:12:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Artist-Explorer-a-Silverlight-2-Mashup Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 2 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Artist-Explorer-a-Silverlight-2-Mashup/RSS mashup Music Silverlight 2 ReachLive - The Future of Communications
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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications IntelePeer, a Microsoft partner, has developed the ReachLive application that voice enables web applications.  ReachLive combines IntelePeer's AppworX programmatic telecommunications platform with Microsoft's Live Services to provide communications features.  The video describes the application, the archtiecture , the power of communications as a service (CaaS), and a demo. Follow this link to get started with Azure: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/sdk.mspx 1151 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:02:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications SkiExtreme SkiExtreme 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/ReachLive-The-Future-of-Communications/RSS Architecture Azure Azure Platform Azure Services CaaS Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Services Communications as a Service Software + Services Windows Azure Windows Live Windows Live ID Windows Live Messenger JamBase.com - Go See Live Music JamBase.com, a San Francisco-based website that is all about finding and going to live music performances.  I met Andy and his colleauges at the Bandwidth Conference this summer and after hearing about their new API, I just had to try doing a mashup with it using Popfly - I wrote about it on my blog here. Because their site runs on ASP.net with SQL Server, I wanted to sit down with Andy Gadiel, the founder to have a chat. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/JamBasecom-Go-See-Live-Music Last week I visited JamBase.com, a San Francisco-based website that is all about finding and going to live music performances.  I met Andy and his colleauges at the Bandwidth Conference this summer and after hearing about their new API, I just had to try doing a mashup with it using Popfly - I wrote about it on my blog here. Because their site runs on ASP.net with SQL Server, I wanted to sit down with Andy Gadiel, the founder to have a chat. 884 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/JamBasecom-Go-See-Live-Music Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:30:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/JamBasecom-Go-See-Live-Music Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/JamBasecom-Go-See-Live-Music/RSS ASP.NET Music SQL Server CaaS Conceptual Architecture Michael Scherotter joins his colleauge Joe Hofstader,  a telecommunications sector architect evangelist, for another discussion on Communications as a Service (CaaS), this time going deeper into the conceptual architecture of CaaS.  In the previous interview, Joe explained how a CaaS architecture could be applied to building telecommunications applications.

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CaaS-Conceptual-Architecture Michael Scherotter joins his colleauge Joe Hofstader,  a telecommunications sector architect evangelist, for another discussion on Communications as a Service (CaaS), this time going deeper into the conceptual architecture of CaaS.  In the previous interview, Joe explained how a CaaS architecture could be applied to building telecommunications applications. 1040 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CaaS-Conceptual-Architecture Wed, 11 Jun 2008 04:48:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CaaS-Conceptual-Architecture Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/CaaS-Conceptual-Architecture/RSS CaaS Telecommunications Communications as a Service (CaaS) Michael Scherotter interviews his colleague Joe Hofstader, an architect evangelist within the telecommunications sector to learn about Communications as a Service (CaaS) a architecture for building multi-tennant telecommunications application.
In a follow-up interview, Joe explains the conceptual architecture behind CaaS. ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Communications-as-a-Service-CaaS Michael Scherotter interviews his colleague Joe Hofstader, an architect evangelist within the telecommunications sector to learn about Communications as a Service (CaaS) a architecture for building multi-tennant telecommunications application. In a follow-up interview, Joe explains the conceptual architecture behind CaaS. 1087 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Communications-as-a-Service-CaaS Mon, 09 Jun 2008 23:14:00 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Communications-as-a-Service-CaaS Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 1 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Communications-as-a-Service-CaaS/RSS CaaS Telecommunications A New Photobucket.com API Publishing an API (Application Programming Interface) is an essential part to becoming part of Web 2.0.  Recently at the Web 2.0 expo, Michael Scherotter caught up with the Photobucket.com team who has just released a new API for their site. In this interview Michael talks with Justin Hart, an engineer with Photobucket.com who has been working on the API.  Photobucket is a photo sharing site popular among bloggers as a location to store their images.

The REST API is extensive with many methods so Michael has created an open-source project on Google Code to build a Silverlight 2 library for it which supports REST web services. 

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]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/A-New-Photobucketcom-API Publishing an API (Application Programming Interface) is an essential part to becoming part of Web 2.0.  Recently at the Web 2.0 expo, Michael Scherotter caught up with the Photobucket.com team who has just released a new API for their site. In this interview Michael talks with Justin Hart, an engineer with Photobucket.com who has been working on the API.  Photobucket is a photo sharing site popular among bloggers as a location to store their images. The REST API is extensive with many methods so Michael has created an open-source project on Google Code to build a Silverlight 2 library for it which supports REST web services.  Other Download Formats: Zune 2MB/s MP4 787 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/A-New-Photobucketcom-API Mon, 19 May 2008 17:57:19 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/A-New-Photobucketcom-API Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/A-New-Photobucketcom-API/RSS Blogging OSS Silverlight The TM Forum at NAB At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference, Rob Cameron talks with Jim Warner from the TM Forum about the Content Encounter catalyst project, a multi-vendor, interactive demonstration of the management of converged content services.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/The-TM-Forum-at-NAB At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference, Rob Cameron talks with Jim Warner from the TM Forum about the Content Encounter catalyst project, a multi-vendor, interactive demonstration of the management of converged content services. Zune download 2 MB/s download MP4 download 558 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/The-TM-Forum-at-NAB Fri, 09 May 2008 01:11:02 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/The-TM-Forum-at-NAB Doogie90 Doogie90 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/The-TM-Forum-at-NAB/RSS Grid Computing at Layered Technologies 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.

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Grid-Computing-at-Layered-Technologies 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. Zune download 2 MB/s download MP4 download 583 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Grid-Computing-at-Layered-Technologies Fri, 02 May 2008 18:35:54 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Grid-Computing-at-Layered-Technologies Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Grid-Computing-at-Layered-Technologies/RSS Web Hosting Video4Ever - School Sports Online 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.  ]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Video4Ever-School-Sports-Online 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.  557 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Video4Ever-School-Sports-Online Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:35:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Video4Ever-School-Sports-Online Michael S. Scherotter Michael S. Scherotter 0 http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Communicating/Video4Ever-School-Sports-Online/RSS Silverlight Windows Media Windows Media Center