Well, I finally got around to installing BlogRush on this site. This is actually a decent concept for bringing in new traffic to your blog. It basically works like a link exchange program except the site promises to bring targeted traffic. We’ll have to see how it works out. Can’t really hurt anything and could help out a lot with traffic. There was some controversy where a lot of spam type blogs had gotten into the system and they deleted quite a few. Like anything else on the web there is room to abuse the service, but for those who use it properly it has potential to bring some additional eyes to your work. I figure it does not take up much realestate so why not try it. I do wish there was a method for modifying the look of the box to match your site colors. Perhaps this will be a feature for a later version. You can read more at the BlogRush site.
Cool Links and Mashups
I’ve been doing a decent amount of reading on Microsoft’s new programming platform, Silverlight, and the more I read the more impressed I become. The web of the Future will be built upon this platform. Its cross platform supported so it will run on both Windows Servers and Linus boxes. All the host really needs to do to support this is to add some new file types to their servers.
This system is very easy to utilize and you can build some fairly interesting items even if you have no programming skills at all. All that is required is the ability to use a mouse and a creative imagination. Don’t believe me, then check out some of the videos below.
You will need the SilverLight Plugin to interact with a lot of the demos so you may want to install it before you watch all the demos.
[tags]silverlight, asp.net 3.5, popfly[/tags]
Microsoft Silverlight
I was watching some videos today on the new platform Microsoft is developing for .Net, Silverlight. It is very cool and will offer a lot of functionality to web applications. I can’t wait to see what people start developing with this platform with Web 2.0 type applications. If you need some examples then watch this video in which Scott Guthrie shows how to create a media rich Airline booking application. The possibilities with this platform are endless and it should allow for a wide array of media rich applications to be developed for the web. The cool part is you don’t have to run the apps on a Windows Server, they will also work on Apache. Of course to get the rich combination of being able to leverage .Net code behind from web services or other .Net applications it will need to be on Windows, but most of this stuff is client side.
[tags]silverlight,microsoft silverlight, Dynamic VB[/tags]
