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Despite all the controversy over Microsoft using Silverlight to take over the rich internet market from Adobe Flash, the software giant seems to be not even trying. In fact, even most Microsoft web sites are using Flash instead of Silverlight.

A quick check through Microsoft properties reveals that only the Microsoft Home Page and the Microsoft Developer Network use Silverlight; MSN Video, Zune.net and the new WWTelescope all use Flash.

Microsoft even appears to be on par with Adobe when it comes to platforms outside of Windows. Silverlight works on Safari for Mac or PC, as well as on Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers. Silverlight even seems to work “unofficially” on Opera (as long you pretend you’re not running Opera).

Silverlight isn’t supported in Linux, but as an avid Ubuntu fan, I can tell you that Flash does not work well in Linux either. A host of open-source alternatives, like Gnash, have mostly solved that issue. Former Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen’s fears of Microsoft favoring Windows seem incredibly unfounded.

But if Microsoft is playing nice for a change, why are they afraid of promoting their product — and why are they afraid of even using it? Maybe “nice” is too novel a strategy for Redmond. It may take some getting used to — for everyone.

China’s online advertising market reached approximately $176 million in the first quarter of 2007, according to Analysys International.

The firm found that Baidu and Sina were the top Web portals in China, with market shares of 20.6 percent and 18.6 percent, respectively.
Online ad spending has continued to increase since 1998 according to a Shanghai iResearch report [...]

Google is a powerful search engine and has a stronghold on the Internet market. Therefore, many Internet business entrepreneurs look to Google for help in promoting their Internet business. Google h…
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It’s been nothing but up for YouTube lately, a hill steep enough to send a few key competitors tumbling backwards. MySpace added a video component? Wouldn’t know it by recent stats. Viacom copyright lawyers strip-searching everybody? So, what? Traffic’s never been better.
According to Compete.com, YouTube controls a 43.3 share of the online video market [...]

Research and Markets has released “2006 Asia Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband Market Overview” which contains information on the trends and developments in telecommunications, mobile, Internet, broadband and broadcasting for the Asian region.
The report says that Asia is the world’s largest regional Internet market. They have an estimated 375 million Internet users (a user penetration of [...]