Popfly

I came across this Microsoft new gig, named Popfly. While I’m still trying to figure out what the purpose of this site (and I’m sure the guys in Microsoft doing the same), everyone who’s looking to get a feeling of what you can do with silverlight, should check it out as well.

Basically, Microsoft is trying to market Popfly as a platform to create mashups, Widgets / Gadgets or web-pages. I’m not sure whether they try to compete with GooglePages or just try to promote the Silverlight (which heavily struggles with Adobe Flex), but it might be a good start.

Popfly also has a nice plug-in to visual studio, which i believe the Visual Studio Express users will find it more attractive.

Bottom line, try it out, just to get the sense of Silverlight.

And a book for RMD, rapid mashup development.

If you’d like one. Email me, Doug Finke.

Paul Walsh makes interesting points. LinkedIn is rowing while Facebook powers by with outboard motors. I setup a network on Ning, Marc Andreessen’s new social networking service. It is jam packed with features and easy to use. Time to start exploring Facebook. Toolkits showing up for it on CodePlex and Popfly.

Just got my official invite to Microsoft’s Popfly. You’ll need Silverlight installed to see it. This Popfly Project took less than 60 seconds to do. Drag and drop a Popfly block, insert an iframe tag. Done! Now to create my own blocks in Visual Studio. Once this was saved, I had the option click a link and install it as a […]

After watching the Microsoft Popfly screencast it felt like I was witnessing Thunder (Visual Basic’s code name) being released in beta. I can only get the alpha if invited or there is room in the next round. First, it shows off what a Silverlight application can do. Then there is a Visual Studio add-in to do Popfly development. Works […]