Microsoft Launches Popfly Alpha

Microsoft has been watching all the cool kids very carefully. Popfly is a tool to make it easy for people to start creating stuff with Silverlight - Redmond's latest attempt to usurp Flash*.

They've obviously learnt from Yahoo Pipes that people want to easily build stuff with the data that's publicly flying around the Internet.

They may be able to do a certain amount of catching up with Flash on the installed user base front - they will probably include the plugin with Windows automatic updates. In the meantime I'm happy to try stuff out for them. Here's a quick clone of TwitterVision which took me about 15 minutes using Popfly.

Link to Test - I took out the embedded Version due to some technical problems (It's still in Alpha so we can't expect everything).

It's not the greatest but considering how long I spent on it there's potential to build great things

*didn't they have a DHTML/SVG builder thing called liquid FX or something? This is going back a good few years and many web apps have passed under the bridge since then so my memory is a bit fuzzy on this one.

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