Keep on the lookout for newly published articles on this topic….

This same approach was used by Cynergy nearly a year ago when they won the National Microsoft Phizzpop Challenge. You can see their live phone call to Senator Obama’s office at SXSW a year ago here

http://www.truveo.com/PhizzPop-Cynergy-presents-Ben/id/288230381149978300

Cynergy then demonstrated the same approach, again calling Senator Obama’s office live from the UXWeek conference over the summer.

http://vimeo.com/2833183

The general approach was blogged by Skype as well

http://share.skype.com/sites/us/2008/09/ben_franklin_namesake_goes_phi.html

In the name of fairness, openness and honesty it is worth adjusting the claims that this is the first time ever this has been accomplished, and to give reference and claims to those who have laid the foundation for this kind of thought leadership.

Dave Wolf
Vice President
Cynergy

Any news about the enabling of webcam support? For local sub we created a webcamgame, where you get points if you mimic the exact movements of the dancer on the website.

site is included.

I am still wondering about the 100% Silverlight assumption being made since Techcrunch in their article & we on our demo page had clearly mentioned about the workaround using Flash. In fact, Leena’s mention about this solution using a competing platform ensured that floor was nicely laid without any hidden details.

In general, I think folks who are comfortable with this solution will go ahead use it. Once Silverlight has the mic support, we will be able to provide a 100% silverlight solution.

Thanks again everyone for your comments,

Apul Nahata

I think it’s a great solution for the no mic support in Silverlight, I guess what’s a little concerning is it’s leaving people with the assumption that it’s 100% Silverlight… which judging by the comments above has backfired a little.

That being said, as a member of the Silverlight Team we hear you loud and clear on the mic support.

Stay tuned… :)

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Scott Barnes
Rich Platforms Product Manager
Microsoft.

http://michaelsync.net/2008/07/25/silverlight-and-flash-interoperability-using-html-bridge-and-externalinterface-api-by-jonas-folles%C3%B8

http://michaelsync.net/2008/07/25/silverlight-and-flash-interoperability-using-html-bridge-and-externalinterface-api-by-jonas-folles%C3%B8

http://www.justaskgemalto.com

The right solution here would likely be to use the free and open source Flex SDK, which comes with a free set of command line tools, a free version for students, and very reasonable pricing for the Flex Builder product.

I also don’t understand your comments about Silverlight being supported on Linux.

What is your motivation for being so positive on Silverlight?

Dave Story
Developer Tools
Adobe Systems

These guys have a Flash program that does VOIP and they added a simple call to open up their Flash program with Silverlight. The article makes it sound they integrated Silverlight/Flash together and its “powerful”

Its clear the author doesn’t know how the technology works and as mentioned above…its an article about a hack.

@chris how do you define clever? Can you show us your better and ‘clever’ solution than what these guys have done?

@dks123 you bring in valid points.

Silverlight (SL) is a powerful technology and I believe has a great future. MS generally gets it right when it is going behind an established market (remember Netscape and IE?). The development tools are available for FREE and might I say, really user-friendly and intuitive. Development can be done using any of the supported languages – C#, VB.NET, C++ etc. Even the debugger support is great. Overall, as a developer, I am in awe of the tools available for me. SL is supported on Linux and that makes my reach as global as it gets.

Coming to SL , it packs quite a punch for developing web applications. One can leverage past MS development tools and language experience to develop an app in SL. For e.g. If I have WPF based apps, moving them to SL is quick and easy. So, as a company, if I am used to MS tools for development, I can’t go wrong with SL. The quality of UI that SL supports is on par with what Flash can do or even better. Now comparing this to Flash development – I need to buy expensive development platform from Adobe, get myself trained in Flash which isn’t the same as programming in say C++ or so, learn AS and the whole timeline thing etc. With all that said, just because MS doesn’t provide access to mic, should we not be able to create applications that can interact with voice? Given that even in SL3, mic support isn’t yet proposed, are we just to wait ? MS, are you listening?

The way I look at it, tringme has opened doors not only to make SL apps interact using voice but also for Redmond to take notice of the absence of mic support. I wouldn’t be surprised if this little hack forces MS to bring in mic support sooner than what they have planned – maybe even in SL3 for all you know.

Also, I can develop the app today using this hack and once MS supports mic in SL, I can transition over to a widget that is fully SL based. Atleast, I can get going today without having to wait for MS to support it right-away.

Although I agree that this might be a weird hack, its well thought off. However strange it may be, I wouldn’t mind using it to start with. The impact of this hack is probably far larger than what is apparently visible.

http://tinyurl.com/dfb5h7

SL maybe getting adopted by a few people but that is not a sign of things to come. SL still needs to mature…and that can happen only when MS dev does something to improve it.
personally, Blend’s UI has to be worst I have ever seen.

TringMe is just trying to make its app saleable by providing it on every platform it can think of. admitted. it’s not that big a deal.

And no its not what google did. Google have added different camera drivers and send the audio / video using their own encoder and protocol to the server. All flash is used for is showing the video in the browser without requiring another plugin. Quite smart.