Tim Sneath announced the release of the Video.Show app, a reference-quality blueprint for implementing a user-generated video content site. It provides everything you need to create a website for uploading, encoding, cataloguing, publishing and commenting on videos, using Silverlight, Expression Encoder and Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live.

Video.Show is a Microsoft Software-plus-Services Blueprint. Software-plus-Services Blueprints are a series of open source frameworks and workflow-based guidance packages designed to provide an architectural bridge and reduce the friction you experience building real-world Software-plus-Services applications.

One of the examples of how this thingy looks like on the web is FilmsForLearning, a UK-based education site for students and teachers. There are already over a hundred videos on the site covering everything from chemistry to politics, and they’ve done a nice job of customizing the default Video.Show interface to add their own unique style along with new features like Windows Live ID integration.

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