Olympics online coverage to be powered by Silverlight

This one is big for my team. My colleagues and I on the Silverlight product development team are enthused about NBC Universal's choice of our platform to power the user experience on their site for the upcoming Beijing 2008 Olympics. I think providing a compelling experience around the thousands of hours of live feeds and on-demand content is just the kind of challenge that Silverlight was built for.

Here's to Silverlight 2.0, of which you'll hear more in the days and months to come.

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Everybody Hates The London Olympics Logo

Not me though. If you've built a brand that everybody's suddenly talking about, can it be a bad thing? [Tip: look at the size of the thumb on your vertical scrollbar after you jump through that hyperlink.]

Although the use of a tangram-like style evokes images of broken glass or even an athlete doubled over in pain, it seems to spell out "2012", the year of the Olympics in question.

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