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Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live offers free of cost solution to host rich media for Microsoft Silverlight microsoft silverlight thumb Silverlight Streaming by Windows Livetechnology. It enables developers & designers both to deliver RIA (Rich Internet Application) and other video streaming content to end users. Developers and designers can also use this service to host their rich interactive content with the ability to author them using Microsoft Expression Studio and other third-party editing environments. Designers & developers can maintain complete control of the user experience that can run on any web browser on both Windows and Mac platforms free of cost.

Here is a quick run down to the features:

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mce thumb Yougle brings YouTube to Windows Media CenterOne of the most requested feature by Media Center users has been the ability to play videos from the most popular video sharing site i.e. YouTube. Microsoft in the 4th quarter of 2007 did release a beta of "internet tv" but it was only limited to US audience and it only supported video playback by MSN Video (which was well kind of expected).

Comes Yougle – a third-party plugin for Windows Media Center which brings popular web services from YouTube, MSN Video/Soapbox, Flickr and many more right on our Windows Media Center so that we all can enjoy our favorite videos from these popular services right from the comfort of the couch in our lounge!

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Earlier this week, SkyDrive team rolled out the much awaited update to their already popular file sharing service!

Here’s what’s been added to Windows Live SkyDrive:

  • More places. The service now is live in 24 additional locations, bringing the grand total to 62 countries and regions!
  • Comments. The ability to add comments to the files uploaded has now been added as also been illustrated by the screenshot below:

wlsd2 thumb SkyDrive: Whats new in Spring 2008 update?

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ZuneBoards today unveiled their new video sharing service for zuners around the world!
ZuneTV is a YouTube-like site specialized for Zuners for sharing video content. Whenever any content is uploaded, the service automatically converts it into a format like .wmv which is supported by zune and then all the fellow zuners can download that video.

The service which started today has got hundreds of videos uploaded already! so what are you waiting for? have a nice moment to share? log on to ZuneTV.net

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