Feature Stories
- Q&A: Executives from MSN, NBC and Microsoft offer details behind the largest online broadcasting event in history. (July 29, 2007)
Press Releases
- MEDIA ALERT: Visit NBCOlympics.com on MSN and Watch the Summer Games You Want, When You Want (Aug. 7, 2008)
- Bill Gates Looks Ahead at “Next Digital Decade” (Jan. 6, 2008)
Videos
Building NBCOlympics.com with Silverlight (19:45)NBCOlympics.com is one of the most ambitious projects on the web and one of the largest Silverlight applications today. Eric Schmidt takes us on a technical tour of how the site works and how it was built with Silverlight 2 and Windows Media.
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Watch the Olympics Live now at NBCOlympics.com (08:18)
With over 2200 hours of live Olympic footage and more feature and profile pieces than you know what to do with...it's the place to be this summer. Using Silverlight 2.0 you can watch up to four live events at one time.
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NBCOlympics.com demo on MSN using Microsoft Silverlight (07:57)
NBC’s Perkins Miller at MIX08, showing the demo of NBCOlympics.com on MSN using Microsoft Silverlight technology
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Executive Biographies
Microsoft Corp.
- Rob Bennett, General Manager of Entertainment, Media and Sports, MSN Entertainment at Microsoft (.pdf file, 228 kb)
- Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President, .NET Developer Division at Microsoft
- Erik Jorgensen, Corporate Vice President and Chief Media and Technology Officer, MSN
NBC
- Gary Zenkel, President, NBC Olympics, Executive Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, NBC Sports (.doc file, 26 kb)
- Perkins Miller, Senior Vice President, NBC Olympics (.doc file, 27 kb)
Limelight Networks
- Mike Gordon, Chief Strategy Officer, Limelight Networks (.doc file, 27 kb)
- David Hatfield, Senior Vice President, Products, Marketing and Sales, Limelight Networks (.doc file, 28 kb)
Schematic
- Trevor Kaufman, CEO at Schematic (.pdf file, 59 kb)
Digital Rapids
Fact Sheets and Overviews
- MSN Fact Sheet (.doc file, 24 kb)
- MSN Video Fact Sheet (.doc file, 20 kb)
- Silverlight Fact Sheet (.pdf file, 2.9 MB)
Industry Partner Press Materials
Press Releases
- DoubleClick Serves Into Silverlight to Power Video Advertising for NBC Universal Digital Media (Aug. 5, 2008, .doc file, 27 KB)
- NBC Universal Details Unprecedented Digital Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (July 29, 2008)
- Schematic Brings NBC’S Coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to Millions of Americans With Development of Silverlight-based Online Video Channel for NBCOlympics.com on MSN (July 2, 2008, .pdf file, 186 KB)
- Digital Rapids to Provide Encoding, Transcoding and Streaming Systems for NBC’s Online Coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games (March 27, 2008, .doc file, 55 KB)
Fact Sheets and Overviews
- Limelight Networks Overview (.pdf file, 933 KB)
- LimelightSTREAM Overview (.pdf file, 1.21 MB)
- Schematic Fact Sheet (.pdf file, 85 KB)
- Digital Rapids Overview (.doc file, 91 KB)
