Attention Apple/linux users streaming tomorrow's events

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You will need to download microsoft's silverlight program.


Silverlight to stream Obama’s inauguration
by Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service

Microsoft’s Silverlight technology has been chosen to stream U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in ceremony live on the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s Web site, Microsoft said.


Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden are due to be sworn in and deliver inauguration speeches next Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Both events will be streamed live on the PIC site using Silverlight, a cross-browser technology for delivering live and on-demand video over the Web.

The PIC also streammed video of an event with Obama and Biden in Baltimore on Saturday as part of their “Whistle Stop Tour,” which took them from Philadelphia to Washington for the inaugural ceremony and celebrations.


iStreamPlanet, an online content-delivery company in Las Vegas, Nevada, is working with Microsoft to stream the event, Microsoft said.

The inaugural event is the latest high-profile use of Silverlight, which was first released in April 2007 as a rival to Adobe Flash. The technology comprises a tool for developing and designing Internet applications and a media player for delivering content.

It wasn’t until the release of Silverlight 2 in October, however, that the technology became a viable alternative to Flash for building rich Internet applications (RIAs), developers said. The technology is Mac-compatible, but only with Intel-based machines.


http://www.macworld.com/article/138284/2009/01/silverlight.html


silverlight site : http://silverlight.net/

from the silverlight site.

"Presedential" Inaugural Committee chooses Silverlight( I didn't misspell presidential microsoft did)

Friday, January 16, 2009
Microsoft announces that the Presedential Inaugural Committee (PIC) has selected Silverlight to enable live and on-demand video streaming of the official inauguration swearing-in ceremony on the PIC web site