Silverlight was the primary deployment vehicle for live online video coverage of the Olympics last summer, and more recently live video coverage of the Obama inaugeration last month.  Moonlight enables Linux users to view video and applications built for Silverlight on their Linux boxes.

Scott Guthrie has more details here.

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Also new in this PicLens release is the display of image and video titles below the image.  As you move the mouse around over the wall, the titles for the images nearest the mouse fade in, and fade out again as the mouse moves away.  The titles come directly from the <title> elements found in the mediaRSS feed of the web site.  For supported sites that don’t provide RSS feeds (like Google Images), we show the image file name.

I’ve found that having title text near the image thumbnails on the wall leads me to notice and click on more things out of curiousity.  The image itself might not be all that remarkable, but when the text below it says “Ferret training”, you just gotta find out what that’s about!

Check out the new demo video on Piclens.com to see video playing on the wall.  Better yet, install PicLens and see it live! 

PicLens 1.6.3 is available for download now on Piclens.com.  It will be available on mozilla.org, download.com, and other download providers in a few days. 

If you originally installed PicLens from mozilla.org, you don’t need to do anything to get the new PicLens release:  Firefox will notice when the new PicLens version is available on mozilla.org and will prompt you to update.  If you’re desperate to see video playback in PicLens right now, you can install from Piclens.com.  Your Firefox will then watch Piclens.com for updates instead of Mozilla.org, so you’ll continue to get updates a few days before your moz buddies.

More Lens Power!

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