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The new web war:

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/117/column-the-scoble-show.html

Desstroy All Invaders

Another Silverlight game.  This one blends with Mirosoft Virtual Earth imagery with a Animation overlay.  You simply mouse around and destroy all the UFOs.  Also comes with source!


http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Home/tabid/67/EntryID/74/Default.aspx

http://www.andybeaulieu.com/Home/tabid/67/EntryID/75/Default.aspx

Dancing by Silverlight

This post on Ward Bell's "Never in doubt" blog is about Silverlight in enterprise applications such as smart clients.  The first link he has labeled "check it out" points to a PDF with a good read about Silverlight.

http://neverindoubtnet.blogspot.com/2007/06/dancing-by-silverlight.html

Microsoft and Second Life

For those that have not heard of Second Life, it is online virtual world.  Some people at Microsoft have created an island in Second Life and will be hosting talks on Silverlight and other technologies.  If you are a Second Life member, you might give them a looking over..

http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/06/28/visual-studio-in-second-life.aspx

Is Wikipedia biased against Silverlight?

The MossyBlog has a post "Is Wikipedia biased towards Silverlight", give it a read:

http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2007/06/29/is-wikipedia-biased-towards-silverlight.aspx

New videos posted to Silverlight.net

They include tutorial on streaming video, overlaying a video with an image and creating a clipping path for an image:

http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx#video199

Videos for Silverlight at Bestechvideos.com

Currently, there are a number of videos on Silverlight along with Linq and another technologies available at:

http://www.bestechvideos.com

Here are the Silverlight videos:

* Adding Ink Support To A Silverlight-based Application

* Using Input Method Editors For Text Entry In Silverlight

* Silverlight Event Handling With Javascript

* Creating A Video Scrubbing Control With Silverlight

* Delivering Parameterized Silverlight Content With Java

* Delivering Parameterized Silverlight Content With Php

* Delivering Parameterized Silverlight Content With Asp.net

* Using Silverlight For Full Screen Experiences

* 2d Geometries In Silverlight

* Using Silverlight Brushes For Color, Gradient And Video

* Animating And Clipping Video With Silverlight

* Using Ajax To Dynamically Update Silverlight Content

* Real-time Data Update With Silverlight And Web Services

* Building Video Overlays With Silverlight

* Overlaying Html And Silverlight Content

* Basic Keyboard Input With Silverlight

Mix07:

* Building Rich, Interactive E-commerce Applications Using ASP.NET and Silverlight

* Using the Desktop and Web to Power Ultimate User Experience Applications

* The 30 Minute Social Applicationocial Application

* Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration

* Design in Motion: Video Production Workflow

* Designing with Microsoft Expression Web: Today and Tomorrow

* Building Rich Web Experience with Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Studio for Designers

* A View from the Front: Real World Experiences of WPF and Silverlight

* Deep Dive on Data Driven Experiences

* Creating and Delivering Rich Media and Video on the Web with Silverlight, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Windows Server Codename “Longhorn”

* Building Rich Web Experiences Using Silverlight and JavaScript for Developers

* Extending the Browser Programming Model with Silverlight

* Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 2 of 2)

* Building Silverlight Applications Using .NET (Part 1 of 2)

* Internet Sites with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

* Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight

* Microsoft MIX07: Keynote I


http://www.bestechvideos.com/category/web-tech/silverlight/

Internap to light up the web with Silverlight:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070627005671&newsLang=en

Silverlight RadMediaPlayer CTP from Telerik no available:

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/valentin_stoychev/archive/2007/06/27/2555.aspx

Nick's blog - Drag drop wtih feedback:

http://blogs.msdn.com/nickkramer/archive/2007/06/27/drag-drop-with-feedback.aspx

Mike Harsh's has a post about the new Silverlight controls and the Silverlight Winform type designer:

http://blogs.msdn.com/mharsh/archive/2007/06/26/winforms-on-silverlight.aspx

Silverlight: Bearing down on Flash?

http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/silverlight_bearing_down_on_fl.html

Silverlight: Scaling and Rotation:

http://vistasmalltalk.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/silverlight-scaling-and-rotation/

Are RIAs what .NET should have been?

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/article.php/3685171

Video: Silverlight - Real-time data update with Silverlight and web services:

http://www.bestechvideos.com/2007/06/24/silverlight-real-time-data-update-with-silverlight-and-web-services/

Video: Silverlight - Delivering parameterized Silveright content with ASP.NET:

http://www.bestechvideos.com/2007/06/26/silverlight-delivering-parameterized-silverlight-content-with-aspnet/

Some people just have to have something to complain about:

http://www.itpro.co.uk/internet/news/118311/silverlight-could-spark-microsoft-monopoly-warns-mozilla.html

Discovery channel switching to Silverlight:

http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Discovery-Channel-switches-to-Silverlight-in-a-flash/0,339028227,339279044,00.htm

Taylormade media a Dunedin based multimedia company is putting Flash and Silverlight head-to-head:

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/ABC9B914F34B4A34CC257302000E306D

Adobe still dismissing Silverlight as a flash-in-the-pan... They actually sound a bit defensive, but then so would I if Microsoft released a bunch of technology that could wipe my business out:

http://philmuncaster.itweek.co.uk/2007/06/gimme-some-air.html

Tim Sneath's post: A summer of WPF and Silverlight training:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/06/25/a-summer-of-wpf-and-silverlight-training.aspx

Non-Generic collections to be "removed" from Silverlight:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/06/26/non-generic-collections-to-be-removed-from-silverlight-inbar-gazit.aspx

Converting the Non-Generic collections:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2007/06/25/bcl-refresher-converting-the-non-generic-collections-inbar-gazit.aspx

Pete Brown's blog:

Silverlight 1.1 Balloons

http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2007/06/25/Silverlight-1.1-Balloons.aspx

More on Silverlight 1.1 Alpha animations performance:

http://community.irritatedvowel.com/blogs/pete_browns_blog/archive/2007/06/25/More-on-Silverlight-1.1-Alpha-Animation-Performance.aspx

Zero Gravity, a new Silveright 1.1 game:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/06/26/zerogravity.aspx

Microsoft showing off Silverlight at Remix07 held in Mountain View, California.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/06/22/windows-silver_1.html

If you are looking for some controls for Silverlight 1.0 (not sure there are many in that camp still, but oh well):

http://telerikwatch.com/2007/06/radcontrols-for-silverlight-ctp.html

http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/hristo_kosev/archive/2007/06/22/2471.aspx

Improve the quality of your WMV files, use Silverlight!:

http://differentthings.wordpress.com

ChatBlender updated:

http://designerslove.net/?p=92

Deciding Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 Orcas?  Josh Smith has some pros/cons working with WPF:

http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2007/06/23/pros-and-cons-of-visual-studio-orcas-support-for-wpf/

COOL! COOL! COOL!  Must View for Silverlight developers!

Get standard Winform controls for Silverlight, currently for free!

http://community.netikatech.com/demos/

Another video building off of Tim Sneath's about creating video overlays:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/06/21/14123.aspx

Julie Lerman's blog - Convert Windows Journal notes to Silverlight - http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2007/06/22/ConvertWindowsJournalNotesToSilverlight.aspx

Silverlight (Moonlight) on Linux:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jun-21.html

http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/moonlight-mono

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

It looks like the reality of Silverlight will be cross-platform even on Linux now.  This is good news for everyone!


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3D in Silverlight?

http://blogs.msdn.com/frankfi/archive/2007/06/14/3d-in-silverlight.aspx


CardSpace & Silverlight?

http://blogs.msdn.com/vbertocci/archive/2007/03/28/wpf-e-and-windows-cardspace-or-plugging-ria-in-the-identity-metasystem.aspx

TheADOGuy: Create a custom error handler in Silverlight video:

http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=188

Silverlight screencasts list:

http://blogs.msdn.com/emre/archive/2007/06/13/silverlight-screencasts.aspx

Tim Sneath's "More fun with Silverlgiht Video: Ad Overlays" which talks about using Blend and Silverlgiht to add static image ad overlays on videos:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/06/20/more-fun-with-silverlight-video-ad-overlays.aspx

Silverlight wins CNet Webware 100 award:

http://seanalexander.com/SilverlightWinsCNetWebware100Award.aspx

PCWorld says "Popfly #1 website to watch:

http://seanalexander.com/PCWorldPopflyNamed1WebSiteToWatch.aspx

Silverlight on Safari on Windows - how does it stack up:

http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/06/11/14119.aspx

Peter Killner's - "Integrating Web Services and Silverlight with .Net 1.1 Alpha":

http://peterkellner.net/2007/06/18/silverlightdebugwebservicedotnet/

and "One Last Gotcha for debugging Web Service Projects with Silverlight":

http://peterkellner.net/2007/06/20/silverlightdebugonemorething/

Schematic Talks about Silverlight:

Here is one for all over ya - http://www.nibblestutorials.net - requires Silverlight