This week, it’s Silverlight 4, Azure, Google Gears “death,” Flash with Salesforce and RIM, and more. The full roster of Coté, Ryan Stewart, and Mike Downey are back for this one:

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See the full transcript over on the RIAWeekly.com post of this episode.

Show notes:

• RichPlatform.com – Downey’s new blog
• Microsoft PDC 2009 – Azure, Silverlight 4, a little bit of SharePoint.
• We then get into what Azure brings for RIA developers.
• Silverlight 4 – much more “plumbing,” etc. Mike talks about the Managed Extensibility Framework for doing components in Silverlight. And here’s the Silverlight and WPF merging reporting from Mary Jo Foley I mention.
• COM in Silverlight 4 – for Office integration, also looking for how to do it on the Mac.
• Silverlight muti-touch app – Ryan got an HP Compaq L2105 multi-touch screen. TechCrunch’s first multi-touch application post.
• Also, Bing’s new, Silverlight-based maps. Also, see MG Siegler’s (TechCrunch) more cautionary take on this vs. HTML 5.
• Google Gears shut-down – was used for local storage, multi-threaded apps; obviously means Google thinks HTML 5 momentum looks good.
• Then we call back to SharePoint at PDC – SharePoint 2010, a lot of Silverlight integration – “web parts,” which are widgets for SharePoint.
• Silverlight Facebook SDK – we go off on a small tangent about Facebook being the new Aol in the making
• Flash and Salesforce (Ryan’s post)
• Flash and RIM – Adobe support for doing HTML stuff on Blackberry.
• Betas for AIR 2 and Flash 10.1, Ryan’s post
• We wrap up by talking about Ryan’s recent HTML 5 post.

A little more

Here’s some items we didn’t get to in this episode:

• Best & Worst practices for RIAs, a presentation.
• There’s an updated Flex Builder 3 for Linux, that doesn’t expire.
• WaveMaker 6.0 Cloud Development Platform Features Automated Multi-Tenant Support
• Winter Olympics via Silverlight
• Upcoming RIA related conferences.

Disclosure: Microsoft and Adobe are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.