i updated dave's wynapse example of Silverlight Intuitive Drag & Drop to include the ability to drag videos (and Dave's is an excellent example, by the way!)

here it is, zipped it up nicely & neatly in a project file: Silverlight Drag and Drop example

here's a screenshot:

  1) a widget which generates iPhone rumors directly from your eTrade account

  2) a WMD-Finder. (search found no results)

  3) IM chat with Paris in jail

  4) add WebCam + PayPal acct. to #3 - very lucrative

  5) a TalentSpring + HotOrNot mashup — to unearth the bevy of Pussycat Doll programmers you know exists

  6) the PopFlySwatter - so you can mash someone else’s mashup with ease

  7) a Michael Jackson registered superstar-offender site. oh come on - you know jacko’s innocent!
      ...but this might help: INSERT INTO SuperstarOffenders VALUES(’O.J.’, ‘Simpson’, ‘Los Angeles’, ‘CA’)

  8) a relational database, into which i'd syphon all backlash responses from Apple & Java communities (TRUNCATE all)

  9) Digg + JDate mashup - sorely needed

10) SIMS / YahooPersonals / FreshDirect mashup - you can iMeet an iPerson at an iStarbucks & never leave home

i really like microsoft's new silverlight browser plugin. cross-browser, cross-platform... now if we could just get the 98% adoption rate that adobe purports for flash.

and while we're at it, i really like the *new* microsoft. at least the new approach. form, function, design, etc. these are all items that were at the foundation of the macromedia and apple camps. so it's fitting that ms follows thru and incorporates better design from their desktop apps to their website.

embrace change, don't complain about it. let's move forward.

all i remember about groove is that it was green. green buttons, green icon, green screens, green green green.

oh, and it worked. very well.

i remember it was the first online collaboration product i successfully deployed that was intuitive and well-designed. for its time, that was a milestone...and i believe it was 1999(?)

anyway, i recently started working with the new version, groove 2007. now it's in microsoft's shop. i'm currently testing large file deployments in sharepoint / groove workspaces. groove automatically syncs the two folders...so if you have extraordinarily large files (or many files in general) the groove agent chugs away as you're logging in to start your day.

since groove was taking a while for startup, i checked into options/settings and noticed you can set restrictions on file size so that groove doesn't consume too many resources when starting up.

here's the link if it helps anyone else: restrict filesizes in groove