When technology gets in the way of productivity

I have this nice screencast of a not so discoverable feature that we are going to release with the next version of CRM. I want to share it to the world...so, what do I do?

Mmmmm the easiest way would probably be to post it on youtube or directly to my blog; mmm bad idea, let's do something more "professional" (read complicated); lets try MSN soapbox or even better, Silverlight streaming.

Soapbox,
Easy to use, the vide uploads fine BUT, the quality is abysmal.. you can't distinguish a thing.

Silverligth streaming
Ok, it is asking me for .zip file with my “Application”; how do I generate that? Go figure. Let’s try downloading the expression encoder. Ok, now I have a bunch of files; lets zip them and upload… mmm no, still missing a “manifest.xml” Grrrr!. To be fair, Silverlight streaming is still in Alpha; chances are, usability will be greatly improved with the next release.

So, I still haven't been able to make it work; I have only invested around 20 minutes or so but that should be more than enough to get things going. I’ll let you know when I eventually upload something that works.

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