Channel 9 - Entries tagged with Videos

Cinnafilm at NAB

Michael S. Scherotter — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:31:00 GMT

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

Vidizmo - Nadeem Khan, President, Vidizmo talks about technology, roadmap and Microsoft partnership

ashishjaiman — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:36:00 GMT

VIDIZMO empowers you to create and deliver SCORM compliant live and on-demand interactive rich media presentations. Vidizmo delivers live broadcasts for training, learning, knowledge compliance, workforce development and corporate communication. Vidizmo uses Silverlight to capture live presentations, lectures, in-person trainings, sales presentations in interactive rich media format and reuse them later.
in this video ashish jamiman talks to Nadeem Khan, president, Vidizmo about Vidizmo product, technology and roadmap.
for more information:
http://www.vidizmo.com

Fabrikam Jets - Integrating Codename "Dallas" with AppFabric Access Control

Jack Greenfield — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:13:00 GMT

This screencast shows how AppFabric Access Control (AC) can be used to provide identity federation, trust delegation, service authorization and integration with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), to control access to services based on Windows Azure.

In the demo, Fabrikam Jets uses the Dallas Portal, AC and ADFS to grant employees of Contoso Marketing access to Microsoft Codename "Dallas" at Fabrikam's expense, using Windows authentication, without exposing Fabrikam's Dallas account keys. It also shows how Fabrikam can revoke the privilege later.

The source code for this example is now available soon on this MSDN Code Gallery page.

Note: The example has been updated to work with the V1 version of AppFabric Access Control. There were two changes from the CTP version to V1 that made the update necessary: 1) V1 uses version 0.9 of the WRAP protocol, instead of version 0.8, and 2) the issuer name generated by V1 is the base URI of the STS endpoint for the service namespace, instead of the full URI. The screen cast has not yet been updated, and still shows the user providing the full URI of the STS endpoint as the key description, rather than the base URI. In all other respects, however, it remains accurate.

Free Comic-Con Videos for Zune

Sarah Perez — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:39:00 GMT

The Xbox Live Marketplace team has added free Comic-Con 2008 videos to the Zune Marketplace. The event, which ran from July 24-27 in San Diego, California, is a huge convention for fans of comic books, sci-fi, fantasy, anime, horror, and other related arts spanning all genres from books to TV to film. Once devoted just to comics, today’s convention has everything from toys to video games to panels featuring Hollywood actors and producers talking about their latest big movie and screening trailers of highly anticipated films. Since not everyone can attend this event, the next best thing is to download free videos from Comic-Con 2008. All you need is the Zune software – if you don’t have a Zune, you can always just watch them on your PC.

Even a JackAss embraces Silverlight

Scott Barnes — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 05:55:00 GMT

I couldn't resist working the words "JackAss" and Silverlight in that way, what can I say I'm still a goofy kid at heart. Onto the story at hand and that is JackAss 2.5 via Blockbuster will premier online via Silverlight.

http://www.blockbuster.jackassworld.com/

What does this say overall?

Well it says that Silverlight is something world-wide online brands are giving serious consideration and whilst many folks would consider Silverlight "Not Ready" many on the other hand such as Blockbuster consider it ready (to answer when Silverlight is considered ready or not allow me to give you the magic number... 42.. when you see that it's ready)

As agencies continue to at times ignore the Silverlight potential, their competitors on the other hands are taking bets and willing to risk a little to gain a lot. I know this as I see the "training" rosters of agencies whom are signing up to be taught Silverlight, so it's not based off a magic goofy scotts eightball.

To put this into perspective, JackAss 2.5 online premier is one of the biggest projects in Blockbuster history. If companies as large as Blockbuster are willing to take the leap of faith, than expect more and more to follow (look at those whom are switching bit by bit).

It's clear with more and more of these powerhouse brands embracing our technology alongside design agencies around the world now considering "how do I use Silverlight as a marketing technology" we will have an impact in 2008+

That being said, more work ahead still so we aren't done

The Ecosystem to date.

The ecosystem around Silverlight is continuing to grow, with an impressive line-up of customers like MLB.com, BMW, Sony Ericsson, Baidu (#1 search site in PRC), NBA.com, Entertainment Tonight (CBS/Paramount) and UVNTV.com, to name a few. See more at http://silverlight.net/Showcase/

Jackass 2.5 will be made available for free, for anyone in the US 17 or older, courtesy of Blockbuster at ww.blockbuster.jackassworld.com beginning December 19th through December 31st, 2007

Ice Cube Loves Silverlight

Joshua Allen — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:07:00 GMT

The legendary rapper and actor, Ice Cube, just launched online TV channel UVNTV, and it's built on Microsoft Silverlight. Check out this interview with Ice Cube and his crew, talking about why they chose Silverlight and how they built the site. Besides being talented musicians and lining up some impressive talent for their channel, these guys are pretty savvy with the technology. This interview was conducted by Michael Scherotter; you can check his blog for more details.

Introduction to OpenID

Joshua Allen — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:50:00 GMT

It starts when you ask a simple question, like "how can I authenticate users against my site?", or "why do I need so many different accounts for all of these different sites?" Soon you're wading through a dizzying array of buzzwords: CardSpace, Live ID, BBAuth, OpenID, and more.

I've collected resources about each of the important technologies. By the time we're done, you'll know the key characteristics and tradeoffs of each. Today we talk about OpenID.

The best person to talk about OpenID is Simon Willison. He's had plenty of practice giving a thorough introduction and demo for OpenID.

Simon is clearly eager to push OpenID, but he's forthright and honest about the limitations and tradeoffs. Watch the whole presentation, including Q&A at the end. He does an excellent job, so I'll just highlight some observations from the presentation:

Business Case: If you enable OpenID on your site, anyone with an account at AOL, LiveJournal, or other site that supports OpenID can logon to your site without needing an extra username/password. Anyone can choose to be an OpenID provider, OpenID is not controlled by any vendor. Currently sites like Yahoo!, Google, PayPal, and MSN don't support OpenID, so people on those services wouldn't be able to login to your site.

Protocol: Enabling OpenID is very easy; it's a simple redirect-based mechanism similar to BBAuth or the old Passport.

Industry Situation: It's unlikely that the companies with largest user accounts databases (like PayPal, Yahoo!, Google) will wholesale allow their logins to be OpenID logins anytime soon. But I expect companies to experiment with OpenID where it makes sense.

The large identity providers are hesitant to expose OpenID logins for a number of reasons that surface in the presentation and Q&A. Simon rightly observes that if you're comfortable allowing lost-password e-mails, you are already exposed to most of these risks, and points out that lost password reminders are "web single sign-on with deliberately poor user experience". This argues against lost password e-mails of course, but puts the risks in context.

The biggest fear people have around OpenID is phishing -- the current OpenID design is susceptible to phishing attacks. Around the 18:00 mark, Simon raises CardSpace as a good solution. In fact, David Recordon from VeriSign just posted a proposed OpenID spec detailing how OpenID could incorporate other forms of stronger authentication (including Information Cards) in order to make OpenID less susceptible to phishing and other related identity attacks. Congratulations to the OpenID community on this initial draft!

Some other common issues raised were collusion (30:00), ability to allow AOL but not LiveJournal (for example), and recycling IDs (48:00) since OpenID doesn't have a GUID-style identifier. For scenarios like blog commenting, these aren't showstoppers.