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1. serva-siiiiide!

   drew olanoff on November 26th, 2007 at 11:14 am - Permalink

2. I filmed this improptu video when I went to their office to help with some technical issues. As Ice Cube was about to leave, I asked if he would say something on video and he agreed. This is the most enthusiastic customer that I have worked with to date and I was very happy to be able to film them talking about their development experience with Silverlight.
   UVNTV.com is great to work with and we’re obviously exceited about it: http://blogs.msdn.com/synergist/archive/2007/11/20/ice-cube-s-uvntv-com-goes-live-with-silverlight.aspx

   Michael S. Scherotter on November 26th, 2007 at 8:25 pm - Permalink

3. [...] is funny: I followed this link off of Ryan Stewart’s blog to NewTeeVee with a video on Ice Cube promoting UVNTV, which is being advertised as an internet TV experience complete with a channel lineup etc. I [...]

   Ice cube predicts demise of Flash ! : code zen on November 26th, 2007 at 8:28 pm - Permalink

4. Say it ain’t so Cube!

   Wait, so they display content on a set schedule? If so, that could be a problem. I’ll have to look into this more before i comment too much on this one.

   Lawrence on November 27th, 2007 at 6:52 am - Permalink

5. omg, go and look, what a load of rubbush and silverlight just threw all sorts of errors. amateurs

   matt on November 27th, 2007 at 2:46 pm - Permalink

6. What a pitiful bit of marketing. If they’d used Cube at the peak of his success ( Like 15 years ago ), they might just have caught a little bit of respect for the association, but now?

   I guess Microsoft will try anything to convince people that Silverlight isn’t a hunk of crap. Well they’ll certainly have the ghetto market sown up now.

   Sharad on November 27th, 2007 at 4:11 pm - Permalink

7. You can do that with flash its called flex and flash media server. Ice Cube is dumb. you can get flash to work on windows , mac, and omg linux!! where as silver light is .net crap and only works on mac and windows. poor linux folks.

   prince on November 28th, 2007 at 5:59 am - Permalink

8. TBH It really is inappropriate to assume that it is staged, then again, it is from a slightly biased point of view.

   Prince,
   At least all those things you mentioned don’t cost the end company several thousand pounds (UK) to purchase, install, and maintain…

   I am a flash dev, and I like Flash, but you really ought to give them a chance. If only Flash could use the WM9 codecs..

   Lawrence on November 28th, 2007 at 8:09 am - Permalink

9. all this from the same guy who wrote “No vassiline”… What ever happened to cube wanting to “Kill Sam…”. Yes im sure this is very candid and honest opinion of the current state of flash technology. Good lunch time divergence :)

   ken lejnieks on November 28th, 2007 at 10:17 am - Permalink

10. I personally don’t care what technology they choose. Just their interpretation of the differences between the two is where the problem exists.

    Most professionals are well aware of the differences, and competition generally yields a better product.

    Lawrence on November 28th, 2007 at 1:52 pm - Permalink

11. [...] Ice Cube, How… How could you? [...]

    sakri rosenstrom blog » Blog Archive » Cairngorm Ice Cube Front App. on November 29th, 2007 at 5:07 am - Permalink

12. You don’t need flex to do that crap…. In fact, full browser window flash out performs flex every time. Flash anything out performs Flex anything, always. Gota love how the dev community complains about Adobe’s crappy components and then uses flex which is just a bunch slow, clunky, Adobe AS classes. Yes, <mx:HBox… get’s compiled into an Adobe written AS class. Don’t be fooled by the compiler. Not to say flex dosen’t have it’s advantages, but it’s far from all that, or even a bag of chips. btw, i’m currently building a flex app.. =)

    Paul Smith on November 29th, 2007 at 1:48 pm - Permalink

13. right click this video player, about Adobe Flash Player 9.

    enough said.

    Jarrad on December 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm - Permalink

14. I see no reason to doubt Microsoft’s claim that this was impromptu.. it’s commonplace for rappers to do impromptu “drops” for all sorts of things..

    I’m just mad nobody mentioned DJ Pooh was in this! Love to see Pooh talking tech, ha

    Jay Smooth on December 3rd, 2007 at 1:23 pm - Permalink

15. what the hell does ice cube know about flash technology? does he sit down and script after he’s done fiilming his crappy movies?

    huh? on December 4th, 2007 at 12:06 pm - Permalink

16. [...] I don’t know about that, but looks so in the video here. His new site UVNTv.com is using it for the video channels. There is a ton of Flash content on the [...]

    Ice Cube is Anti-Flash… | Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell on December 15th, 2007 at 10:42 am - Permalink

17. [...] channel as well as content from Snoop Dogg, fashion designer Christian Audigier and Ice Cube (but no Flash). [...]

    Vid-Biz: Cisco, Golden Globes, Ice Cube « NewTeeVee on January 8th, 2008 at 10:04 am - Permalink

18. [...] and Microsoft have emerging RIA platforms (AIR/Flex/Flash and Silverlight respectively). While the hype for Silverlight is hitting stride, currently the Adobe Flash/Flex/AIR platform is the way to go for [...]

    2008, the Year of the Rich Internet Application (RIA): « Anthony’s Blog on January 16th, 2008 at 5:40 am - Permalink

19. ice cube, a porn producer, what a loser.
    people that think he is cool are completely out of touch with reality..

    Matt on January 22nd, 2008 at 2:46 am - Permalink

20. stop comin at ice. he doin his thing

    KrIsTeN on February 1st, 2008 at 6:27 pm - Permalink