The Design and Implementation of laffer1

 Microsoft is offering a free service to stream video via Silverlight with ad insertion.  I think that might be a nice service for sites to add streaming content.  The only problem is that you need Microsoft Expressions software to actually create the content.  If I've got to buy software, I might as well go with Flash which is supported on more platforms.  There are also a few programs that can create Flash content in the open source world.  Microsoft needs to get Silverlight support finished on Linux/BSD.  Novell is working on this for Mono.