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Beijing Olympics Highlight Web 2.0 Technologies
By now we all know that the name which will be forever embedded with the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics is that of Michael Phelps.
But there is another name, a group of names, really, which are having their golden moment in Beijing. The names? Web 2.0 and Microsoft's Silverlight.
Together with NBC, Microsoft has teamed to make this Olympics the most technologically personal Olympics ever.
Silverlight, which is a subset of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation, or WPF, and which is standard on Windows Vista, is the engine powering NBC's 3600 hours of Olympic coverage on the web.
Call it Web 2.0 on steroids, if you will, NBC's use of Silverlight to garner the Web 2.0 spotlight might be the only steroid accusation made this Olympics.
Regardless, NBC's Olympic implementation is the world's largest Web 2.0 project ever undertaken to date.
As a result, Microsoft is hoping to see Silverlight surpass Adobe's current lead in Web 2.0 multi-media provision.
Via NBC and Microsoft's Silverlight, live, high-definition videos of the Olympics are available to anyone with a personal computer which has access to the web.
Who would have thought that Beijing would be the starting gun for the wide-spread use of Web 2.0? |
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