I’m starting to feel like a true Nokia fan-boy here but I saw something very interesting today.

Nokia recently announced plans to make Microsoft Silverlight applications available to all S60 operated Nokias. That would would mean almost the entire Nokia N-Series if I’m not mistaken which would be a huge leap forward. I am not aware of any applications that let you view or use Macromedia Flash technology on a mobile. Nokia also announced support for Series 40 devices and Nokia Internet tablets.

Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering next-generation media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight is already powering thousands of applications around the world and organizations including Entertainment Tonight, the NBA and NBC Universal to deliver superior Web-based experiences to their customers. The arrangement with Nokia will substantially extend the reach of Silverlight by making the platform available for hundreds of millions of devices.

Personally, as a .Net Developer, this is exceptionally exciting and I cannot wait for this to become a reality. I already have an idea in mind and will start working on it ASAP and then maybe I can return this blog back to a development focused blog I unfortunately have not yet been able to find more information as to when this will be available. Having recently moved into my own apartment I have not yet replaced my ADSL connection and having to rely on a GPRS connection isn’t that great.

Good news however, I am getting a new work laptop within the next two weeks and I will be organizing a HSDPA connection so I’ll be able to post more ASP.Net related posts soon. I must however admit that the progress from Nokia’s side has truely won me back so far. Now if I could only get my hands on the Nokia N78 for a test run!

Microsoft Silverlight - http://silverlight.net/
Nokia Internet Tablet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
S60 - http://www.s60.com/
Series 40 - http://forum.nokia.com/series40

Its official, I am now sick and tired of registering on every single different website I use! I honestly thought the uptake of OpenID would have been so much quicker!

For those of you that have no clue what OpenID is, imagine creating an account on 1 website and simply being login into multiple websites using these credentials! A perfect example of this would be registering on http://www.myopenid.com/ and then simply just logging into http://altdotnet.org/ without having to register on altdotnet as well.

Whats seriously disappointing for me is that not even Microsoft have tried incorporating OpenID into their community portals.