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Just read the post about the 2008 LeWeb 3 conference in Paris announcing the dates for this year: 9-10 December.
It’s early days of course but if anyone attended LeWeb 2007 you’ll know that it’s well worth keeping the dates in mind. If this year’s event is even half as good as last year’s it will still be one hell of a conference… and given the organising team’s dedication, its more likely to be twice as good! :-)
GapingVoid asks on Twitter “Can anyone tell me, in 140 characters or less, what is “THE BIG IDEA” behind MSFT Silverlight?”
Pretty good question I thought. What’s the big idea behind a company like Microsoft, who’s not really well known in the creative/desktop-publishing space, stepping into the highly competitive market of computer animation. A market where Adobe (formerly Macromedia) have been building a huge market share and “fan club” for a bit more than a decade.
Well, Microsoft is definitely a little bit better than Adobe at the programming side of things. And given their success with .net it is safe to assume there’s a huge framework ready to be tapped into by Silverlight. More importantly though, Silverlight is most likely going to be a huge asset to the millions of aesthetically-challenged Windows developers. Its provision of basic UI components that conform to basic interface and usability guidelines will up the standard of developers’ output and also make it several orders of magnitude easier for them to interact with designers since a lot of the presentation is abstracted out of the code itself.
Therefore, my answer to GapindVoid’s question was “Silverlight is Flash for MSFT Developers: Lets geeks make beautiful stuff and interact better with designers”
What do you think? Will Silverlight beat Adobe at the browser-animation game?
Off to the London Ad:tech event this week.
Looks like an extremely promising event packed with interesting sessions and a promising keynote from Virgin Galactic CEO.
