Linerider has been moved to Silverlight. Very cool, and a nice integration with Messenger and the Contacts API. It’s a winner, casual gaming fans!

Great DeepZoom example – a Barack Obama collage made from 12,000 thumbnails from his supporters. I wonder if they could rustle up enough photos to do one of Gordon Brown? (Note: cheap jibe, rather than some description of my political bias.)

If you haven’t already seen the Kit3D stuff before then take a look at this demo site…

I often talk about the starting points for thinking about the value of RIAs as being:

• Data visualisation: graphs, charts and other data
• Use of metaphors that makes the experience more joyful and useful

On the second point then, it’s great to see the updated support for control skinning in the latest Beta drop. Tim Heuer helps us out here and here.

Hopefully all you cool emerging tech kids will have downloaded the new Silverlight Beta 2 bits and pieces and seen the relevant blog posts. (Actually, the Gu’s post will usually just about do.)

Challenge for me of course is that I still have a diary of presenting and project work and it usually takes a couple of weeks for code to flip from one beta to the next. I know, I know, it’s a tough life…

There are some things in life that should be mixed. Carl Franklin deserves a medal for taking some of my favourite technology, Silverlight, and mixing it with some of my favourite music: Steely Dan!

Now if only he'd do anything from Pretzel Logic (Barrytown?), or Can't Buy A Thrill (Reelin in the Years?)

A lot of people ask me about Silverlight support for Linux. If you want to see it action, you can now, by heading over to the Mono site and downloading from there.

Then look no further at this healthcare demonstrator from friend and colleague Martin "Larry" Grayson...

It was great to see ITV use Silverlight to provide their live channel streaming and catch-up TV services for the Mac audience. I think it's really interesting that they chose to reach out to a Mac audience using latest Microsoft technology and it's a great demonstration of the cross-platform capabilities of Silverlight.

Silverlight is also used if you're running Firefox on your PC too.

You can see reports at Macworld and there's also at Automated Home.

Some bits and pieces from blogs which might help you with Silverlight and WPF:

• From Karsten: Using a UserControl as a DataTemplate in Silverlight
• Also from Karsten: A couple of interesting links thinking about Video in WPF: direct pixel updates in Media Element and capturing webcam in WPF
• From Peter: Dynamically loading content into a Silverlight application
• From Adam: A great three part series on creating an XBox Gamercard badge, which demonstrates the thinking behind constructing a Silverlight application as much as it does the technology itself.