Presentation slides for my Digigirlz Publish session in March 2008. It includes info about Windows Live Services, Popfly, Expression Blend a Silverlight video player
My girlish qualities : SHOPPING, CHOCOLATE, CHATTING WITH FRIENDSGEEKY STUFF: INTERNET, TEST NEW APPLICATIONS, ATTEND PROGRAMMER GROUPS, CHECK OUT BLOGS, GET EXCITED ABOUT NEW TECH. PRODUCT RELEASESHOBBIES: PHOTOS, PIANO (Beginner-level), DRAWINGSTRESS SOLUTION: Nintendo DS – Super Mario, JAMBA JUICE
SHOW DISTANCE:http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=41.4421~-26.71875&style=r&lvl=2&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&cid=E4FF823E57A734A4!246&encType=1INFO:Europe's most populous city (the world's 4th largest city proper and 20th largest urban area) It extends both on the European (Thrace) and on the Asian (Anatolia) side of the Bosphorus, and is thereby the only metropolis in the world which is situated on two continents.Google MAPS:http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=istanbul&ie=UTF8&ll=41.043627,28.966484&spn=0.181256,0.31929&z=12&om=1
Live spaces: Spaces is your place to share photos, lists, and your personal blog with friends.The best place to share your world online.Microsoft's blogging and Social Networking platform.Several "gadgets" are available for Windows Live Spaces users that allows for greater customization of an individual's space.[2] Contact Cards, which summarize recent additions to a Windows Live Space for a particular user, are integrated with Windows Live Messenger, MSN Web Messenger and Hotmail ContactsAdd friends to your spaceInvite others to be your friend and they'll appear on your space. You can add tags and notes to tell others what's special about your friends. See what your friends are doing on Spaces Your friends' new photos, comments, blog entries, and more are listed right on your Spaces home in the What's new module Windows Live Writer: Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. Get offline editing, spell check, and more. Easily publish pictures, videos, and other rich content to your blog .SkyDrive: Password-protected online file storage. Store and access your personal files from anywhere online.Share files with your friends.SPACESAdd moduleAdd RSS feed (What is RSS-give info on RSS for girls – if question should pop up)Add custom HTML
It’s a good idea to talk about Popfly, because we have set up some Popfly gadgets on our Live spaces page
Popfly INFO:Popfly is the fun and easy way to build and share mashups, gadgets, and Web pages. It’s made up of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups and a social network where you can host, share, rate, comment and even remix creations from other Popfly users. Popfly FAQ:You can use Popfly gadgets on your own site without writing program code, share it friends, embed existing blockseverywhere.~YouTube for applications: Discover, rate, comment and remix user-generated apps.But you can create blocks for others as well.Registration Through Windows Live ID-Customize/share media: Flickr, Fbook, Podcast, video-Describe your persona: Twitter, Fbook events, Digg, Game scores from Halo3What we have build as samples for you:Popfly - Flickr gadgetPopfly – Locations gadgethttp://www.popfly.com/Videos/?video=liLiveAction
RIA: Rich internet applicationsPopfly is making use of SilverlightMicrosoft Live@Edu: http://my.liveatedu.com/THE HUB: http://the-hub.tv/silverlight/(Features: Change skin, edit mode, HipHop lesson5 – fullscreen etc.)You can design Silverlight applications with Expression Blend – currently it is free
Media utilityExpression Media Encoder - generate rich media content for use within Silverlight. (Tim Sneath)You can VC-1-encoded content basically a specific format to create high-quality media You can add leaders, trailers, credits, watermarkYou can include metadata, create chapter navigation and embed captionsGirls may ask these questions:QUESTION: What is STREAMING?QUESTION: What is ENCODING?QUESTION: What is Silverlight?
Expression Blend is Microsoft's user interface design tool for creating rich graphical interfaces for web and desktop applications that blend the features of these two types of applications.You may be more interested in DESIGN or DEVELOPMENT; you have many options.This tool offers you the chance to design UI, but also some coding is possible.We will do create our own video player and also add some functionality, such as stop-start-pause …
As we don’t have enough time to start from scratch, we will use our existing project code and make customizations to it.Steps are summarized in this document:FOLDER: …DesktopDIGIGIRLZ_RESOURCESDOCUMENT:CREATE_VIDEOPLAYER_FROM_EXISTING_PROJECT.docx
Steps are summarized in this document:FOLDER: …DesktopDIGIGIRLZ_RESOURCESDOCUMENT:CREATE_VIDEOPLAYER_FROM_EXISTING_PROJECT.docx
What is it: Deliver and scale rich media as part of yourSilverlight applicationsOPENSteps are summarized in this document:FOLDER: …DesktopDIGIGIRLZ_RESOURCESDOCUMENT: HOW_TO_PUBLISH_TO_Silverlight_STREAMING.docxHOW_TO_PUBLISH_TO_Silverlight_STREAMING.txtDEF: Companion service for SLYou can deliver rich media as part of your SL applications You can host and stream cross-browser media and interactive applications