Finally after weeks of hard work the World Cup Silverlight player is ready to watch the spanish team in action. This Silverlight Player use Smooth Streaming technology, enables adaptive streaming of media to Silverlight and other clients over HTTP. Smooth Streaming provides a high-quality viewing experience that scales massively on content distribution networks, making true HD 1080p media experiences a reality. The player integrate leading social networks such as Microsoft Live Messenger, Twitter and Facebook to chat in a public chat and with your Windows Live Messenger contacts list completely private. All supported on Microsoft Azure in one of the biggest deployments in this platform (350 instances).

We integrate Windows Live Messenger with Siverlight using the javascript messenger library, version 3.5. Check out this video, in spanish, where Antón and me explain how to integrate Silverlight and Live Messenger: http://www.channels.com/episodes/show/8900143/-Codecamp-es-2009-Messenger-Cortes-Molleda