It was confirmed last week that Bill Gates will once again keynote at CES 2008, and it now appears as though Silverlight will be making an appearance too. Well, as much of an appearance as a technology can make, anyway! iStreamPlanet Co., which provides webcasting services to CES, World Series of Poker, American Express, and other major clients, announced today plans to use Silverlight:

“We are very excited about the benefits the new plug-in has to offer and intend to release a full suite of applications integrated with Microsoft Silverlight by late summer of this year,” said Mio Babic, Founder and CEO of iStreamPlanet Co.

That seems like a very aggressive timeline to me, but I hope they pull it off! Microsoft is apparently working with iStreamPlanet on the integration, so any problems or other issues that crop up will likely be fixed very quickly. And that’s good news for the rest of us who are interested in implementing Silverlight.

You can learn more about iStreamPlanet here, and more about Silverlight here.