This week brought Silverlight's big opening ceremony, Curl jumps into Eclipse, Cairngorm goes open, mapping takes a giant leap forward with SpatialKey, and the first episode of the Open Web podcast.

FEATURED: Silverlight Delivers the Olympics

The Silverlight-delivered coverage of the 2008 Olympics has been on most everyone's mind for the last few days. Everyone from small blogs to the New York Times has covered an aspect of this giant experiment in online media.

New York Times: Olympics Online, With a Hook

Overall, the experience has gone well for most users. Since we are only a few days into the event, we will keep an eye on how it holds up.

Play Olympic Games in Silverlight

Silverlight program manager, Tim Heuer, posted a list of online Olympic games built with Silverlight and the Popfly Game Creator.

Tim Heuer: Play Olympic Games in Silverlight

Silverlight's Future

In addition to all of the hype about the olympics, many people were discussing what would happen to Silverlight post-Beijing. Mashable currently has a poll to see where its visitors see Silverlight in the future:

Mashable: Contemplating Microsoft Silverlight’s Post-Olympic Fortunes

Cairngorm Goes Opensource

Steven Webster and Allistair McLeod announced this week that one of the most popular application micro-architectures for Flex, Cairngorm, is now going open source. Steven laid out the process for the next iteration of this popular framework.

Steven Webster: Cairngorm 3 - Adobe Consulting Led but Community Driven

Adobe OpenSource: Cairngorm

Curl Launches Eclipse Tool Set

Last Tuesday, Curl announced the release of their tools for the Eclipse platform. These provide features such as debugger integration, built-in documentation, support for the Curl language and more.

Curl.com: Curl Announces General Availability of Curl Development Tools for Eclipse

Curl.com: The Curl Development Tools for Eclipse

Flex 3 Wins Best of Opensource Award

This week Flex 3 won InfoWorld's 'Best of Open Source Award' in the Best developer tool for RIA's category.

Flex Team Blog: Flex 3 Wins Best of Open Source Award

InfoWorld: Best of open source developer tools

SpatialKey Brings Next Generation Mapping

DISCLAIMER: I work for Universal Mind, the company that developed SpatialKey. However, I was not on the team that developed it. The thoughts and opinions expressed here are my own.

This week Universal Mind released a technology preview of their next generation mapping tool, SpatialKey.

SpatialKey is a next generation Information Visualization, Analysis and Reporting System. It is designed to help organizations quickly assess location based information critical to their organizational goals, decision making processes and reporting requirements

The features available in the technology preview are unequaled in the other geo-spatial visualization solutions available today.

SpatialKey Blog: SpatialKey Technology Preview

SpatialKey: Gallery

Open Web Podcast

The guys at Ajaxian (Dion Almaer, Alex Russell, and John Resig) launched a new podcast focusing on the Open Web. The initial episode covers HTML 5, WC3 Selectors, and Dojo related happenings.

Ajaxian: Open Web Podcast Episode 1

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