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Why NBC dumped Silverlight for Flash?

Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 11:54 am

Because, while 40 million US visitors to NBCOlympics didn’t have Silverlight installed, Adobe Flash is already installed on some 98 percent of Internet-connected computers.

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JavaFX SDK says NO to Linux?

Thursday, August 21st, 2008 - 8:27 am

After the advent of SDKs for Adobe AIR & Microsoft Silverlight and the considerable amount of market share they already have, Sun Microsystems has finally come up with their SDK preview for JavaFX.

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ZDNet, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb; They’ve got it wrong

Saturday, May 10th, 2008 - 6:56 am

Some-a people out there in our nation don’t have that, and I believe RIA, like, such as in Flash and Silverlight everywhere, should help the US, or should help Adobe, and should help India, and should help Sun so that we’re able to build up RIA.

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Java creator, James Gosling does his part of Flash Bashing

Saturday, January 5th, 2008 - 10:04 am

If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.

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initRIA, India’s Premier RIA-focussed event

Monday, December 10th, 2007 - 6:15 am

initRIA is the first of its kind Rich Internet Applications developer conference in India. It aims at providing a platform for RIA enthusiasts in India to interact and learn.

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Silverlight 1.1 will be released as Silverlight 2.0 early 2008

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 - 6:57 pm

Microsoft still has a long way to go before it even stands a chance of displacing its main competitor, Adobe’s Flash technology. Still, Silverlight 2.0 does appear to represent a major step forward for Microsoft.

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Web video gone wild

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 - 2:56 pm

Adobe will not allow third party streaming servers to stream H.264 video or AAC Audio into the Flash Player? One would need an appropriate license from Adobe to do so! So, for the future high quality Video on Web, will Adobe have the last laugh?

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Microsoft Silverlight 1.0

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 - 12:14 pm

The goal of Silverlight is to get into the game, not to add anything new of value. If you look at the feature set on a pure technology basis, Silverlight has 80% less features and 98% less compatibility than Adobe Flash Player.

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Introduction to Adobe AIR (NetTuts)

Nettuts have a nice Introduction to Adobe AIR which focus on using HTML/JS to build an AIR Application. It covers -- Adobe AIR Architecture, How to install AIR, Get the development SDK, Configurations, gets on to ...2nd Oct, 2008

Decide Team Type from Books

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What do investors look for in a startup?

A great video Interview with Venture Hacker Naval Ravikant answering the age-old question: What do you look for in a startup? Investors look for two things that are paramount above all: # Great team: It's obvious. It's a ...27th Sep, 2008

You don't mess with the 'Englineer Bother'

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Dear Adobe

Do you have a gripe with the Adobe Softwares that you use? Do you have complaints about Adobe Softwares? Please visit Dear Adobe to file your informal gripe with Adobe. 15th Sep, 2008

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