Silverlight building steam

Silverlight is an incredibly interesting direction for teams building web applications, especially those with .NET skill sets already in place.

This site: http://silverlight.net/showcase/Default.aspx now is live, hosting some of the cool new work being done in silverlight.

The Home Shopping Network is actually innovating - they are offering video streaming via Silverlight, but overlaying controls on the video for the user to easily jump into ordering.  For example clicking the "buy" button takes the user to the product purchase page with all the details of what they were just watching filled out.

Silverlight is enabling this by allowing meta data to be carried with the video (including timeline based metadata) and UI controls that can integrate and utilize the meta data, including overlapping and interacting with the video.

Very cool.