Live from Mix

I had a little trouble getting started this morning which wasn't surprising, but luckily the Keynote didn't start until 9:30am (which was 11:30 am EST).  The Keynote interesting, and a few items really got my attention.  What NBC is doing for the Olympics with Silverlight was extremely impressive.  I'm certainly looking forward to that.  In addition, there was a last minute mention of Silverlight Mobile support.  It turns out that there's Silverlight support for Windows Mobile 6, and Nokia has just signed up to provide support for a range of devices, including their Internet tablets.  That really caught my attention because I've been waiting to be able to develop a rich app for my N770, but have never found a good place to start.  I'm hoping whatever they do is easily ported to the N770, otherwise I may have to upgrade.

As far as Keynote demos go, it was your standard "wow factor" type Silverlight apps, with an additional LOB app from Cirque du Soleil.  The NBC Olympics app made a lasting impression, but I thought the Cirque du Soleil app left out some of the great User Experience and styling capabilities of Silverlight, to focus on LOB. 

Ok, have to pay attention now, I'm in a packed room for "Building RIAs with Silverlight 2.0".