Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

Yet Another Silverlight Sports Video Site

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Jan 7, 20081 min

What is it with Silverlight and sports video sites? First baseball, then basketball, and now the Olympics. This just in from Microsoft: Tonight at CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that NBC Universal has chosen to partner with Microsoft to make “NBCOlympics.com on MSN” the official online home of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. NBCOlympics.com on MSN will provide online users with exc

What is it with Silverlight and sports video sites? First baseball, then basketball, and now the Olympics. This just in from Microsoft:

Tonight at CES in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced that NBC Universal has chosen to partner with Microsoft to make “NBCOlympics.com on MSN” the official online home of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. NBCOlympics.com on MSN will provide online users with exclusive access to an unprecedented offering of over 3,000 hours of live and on-demand video content built on Microsoft Silverlight 2.0.

The combination of the MSN audience reach and the Silverlight technology will allow NBC to deliver Olympics content to a broad U.S internet audience – all through an immersive and interactive video experience that will redefine how sports fans consume content online. The Silverlight showcase, which invites customers to showcase their applications, now features more than 100 Silverlight applications from 30+ countries/regions around the world.

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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