Mike Downey’s RIA Field Notes – RIA Weekly #59

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This week, Ryan and I are joined by (hopefully soon to be come regular) guest co-host Mike Downey, 3 weeks into his new job as a Silverlight Evangelist and with a wicked mic. We open up talking about the RIA usage Mike saw in the field during 6 months as an independent consultant, and then go over some of the highlights from the RIA world since last we talked:

• What has Mike been seeing in the field? More emphasis on UX for behind-the-firewall applications.
• I also ask Mike what kind of software development process he saw these folks using.
• Both Ryan and I circle around the question of “selling UX” in corporations, asking around that topic several times. Mike has several interesting observations from the field that he shares.
• NBC football in 720p HD via Silverlight. Mike tells us what functionality will be in there: very DVR-centric.
• SXSW panel proposals – Ryan has an interesting one on “beyond mice and keyboards,” Coté has a panel on HTML5, and Ryan rounds up other interesting looking ones. It’s a lot of help if you got vote for and/or leave comments on these: then they might get picked!
• Seadragon.com – Deep Zoom on your own. Here’s a door at a Chiang Mai temple – not a mega-high resolution photo (2048 x 3072, 6.3 megapixels), but fun nonetheless.
• RockMelt browser – stealthy startup working on a new “browser.” Is this a Facebook browser, or a sort of Compuserve/AOL walled-web thing?

Disclosure: Adobe and Microsoft are clients.