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The Day Digg Ate Itself
It’s been an interesting 24 hours for the darling of user-driven content, digg. Upon removing an item regarding the discovery of the processing key that unlocks AACS copy protection (used in both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray discs), digg was overwhelemed by a flood of angry users, submitting and digging more stories containing the now-legendary hexidecimal string.
Digg prides itself on the idea of the community controlling the content, but this incident has been a prime example of how user driven content can backfire — what do you do if your users fill your site with content that is in direct conflict with your advertisers and therefore puts your revenue at risk? Oh, didn’t you know? Diggnation is (or was), sponsored by the HD-DVD Promotions Group.
Kevin Rose’s official post on the matter states that they pulled the story due to a cease and desist letter. While I don’t doubt that digg may have received a cease and desist, surely Wired would have received the same when they published the code in February?
Hmmm… Interesting.
Silverlight Takes Shape & MS Gets Dynamic at MIX ‘07
In case you missed the hubbub, Microsoft’s marketing machine has gone into rich media overdrive. First, at NAB, they gave WPF/E a reasonably non-geeky name: Silverlight. Mix 07’s keynote was a series of very impressive demos—all available online at the Mix site—showing what the alpha bits of Silverlight can do. The really exciting part is the full CLR integration, allowing for some very heavy lifting in the client side .NET runtime. Integration that happens to run well, and is debuggable from, a Mac. If I were running the Flex team, I would start getting worried, very worried.
The other huge news is that Microsoft has created the Dynamic Language Runtime, a layer sitting on top of the CLR, to jump-start dynamic .NET language development. They are even creating some tools—such as Jasper, a RAD environment—that require one to use languages with late-binding support.
I think .NET development is going to get a lot more interesting in the coming year as these betas start going live. Dynamic languages should help make things more approachable on the low-end, and things like the Entity Framework and LINQ will create some very cool possibilities on the low-end.
In a sad twist of fate, I actually am Vegas …
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