Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Cynergy

Cynergy is the global leader in the design and development of Rich Internet Applications specializing in Microsoft Silverlight and WPF as well as Adobe Flex and AIR. Using its proven LookFirst approach to the design and development process, Cynergy has created rich, powerful business and consumer applications for companies across nearly every vertical including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, and government markets. Cynergy is privately held and headquartered in Washington, D.C.; the Company's U.S. field operations include Rochester, N.Y., Grand Rapids, Mich., and San Diego, Calif. Cynergy's European operation is based in London, United Kingdom and Copenhagen,Denmark and its Asia Pacific operations are located in Taipei, Taiwan and Sydney, Australia. More information about Cynergy can be accessed at http://www.cynergysystems.com and samples of their work can be found at http://www.cynergytv.com.

HP

HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers - from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world's largest IT companies, with revenue totaling $104.3 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended Oct. 31, 2007. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

The Internet Explorer team is excited to be a return sponsor at MIX08! IE provides improved navigation through tabbed browsing, web search right from the toolbar, advanced printing, easy discovery, reading and subscription to RSS feeds, and much more. A robust architecture provides enhanced security to help defend against malware and phishing, while improved support for cascading style sheets and robust tools for deploying and managing in large enterprise environments makes IE the browser of choice. Check it out today at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ , and don't miss us at MIX08 in Las Vegas!

Media Sponsors

DotNetSlackers

DotNetSlackers became successful by bringing organization to the daily onslaught of .NET news from dozens of sources. Now, in addition to this core news service, DotNetSlackers also publishes original articles, provides free developer blogs, and answers .NET questions via forums. Visit DotNetSlackers today and subscribe to our daily .NET news alert, and see what you've been missing.

Dr. Dobb's is recognized worldwide as the leading resource for the professional software development community. With an award-winning monthly publication (Dr. Dobb's Journal), world-wide technical events and conferences (Dr. Dobb's Events) and one of the web's most comprehensive sites (Dr. Dobb's Portal), Dr. Dobb's attracts the industry's most authoritative audience of professional developers, architects and managers. Subscribe to the FREE* publication today at http://www.ddj.com/subscribe/ *Available to qualified applicants in the U.S. and Canada only

Lake Quincy

Lake Quincy Media is the only network of its size specifically targeting .NET professionals, representing over 80 top community sites. The Lake Quincy Media team has been helping component vendors, web hosts, software companies, and more make their products stand out on the web for years. Partners of Lake Quincy Media receive competitive CPM rates, no set up fees, and a user-friendly ad management system with outstanding reporting. Lake Quincy Media also offers regular feedback and recommendations from an experienced advertising team that knows how to get results. Millions of developers, dozens of sites, ONE advertising solution: Lake Quincy Media.

MSDN Magazine is the publication to read for up-to-the-minute, comprehensive coverage of Microsoft technologies for the desktop, the Internet, and devices on the go. As part of the indispensable MSDN family of developer resources, MSDN Magazine brings you solutions to the real-world problems you face every day. Whether you're building Web Services, integrating legacy data stores, or mastering .NET, MSDN Magazine has it covered.

The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you! The festival happens March 7-11, 2008 in Austin, Texas. Check out www.sxsw.com/interactive more information!

Silver Sponsors

PhizzPop.com helps firms that build next generation web solutions meet their design, development, and business challenges. As the newest addition to MIX Online, PhizzPop helps agency professionals create more compelling, dynamic work and capture new business using the Microsoft Web and User Experience Platform. PhizzPop provides valuable training and articles, facilitates collaboration, and showcases great design work.

Check out PhizzPop.com today and:

  • Read or post an article about techniques or industry experiences.
  • Take free training courses, or take advantage of a free hosting offer.
  • Show us your stuff! Create a profile and gallery.
  • Post an event, or find what other events your peers are attending.
  • Post a job opportunity, or review those posted by others.
  • Provide feedback so we can serve your needs better.

Microsoft Windows Mobile powered devices help you access the business information you need even when you are away from your desk. With over 40 form factors, the Windows Mobile platform ensures that there’s a device type uniquely suited for your organization, your team, and your role. The Windows Mobile platform is an open platform that supports needs beyond mobile messaging. It’s based on Microsoft .NET, giving developers freedom to innovate. Over 18,000 Windows Mobile applications are available from third-party developers.

Windows Live

The Windows Live Platform is focused on providing developers and businesses with everything they need to build on top of Windows Live services. Microsoft is providing APIs for core Live services - such as Windows Live Contacts, Windows Live Messenger, Live ID, Search, and Virtual Earth - so that developers can access and use these services in the applications they create. Since the Windows Live Platform is Web-services-based, it opens up the potential for any device, browser, platform or operating system to access and consume the services that are created on this platform. Check out dev.live.com for more information!

Bronze Sponsors

Advaiya, Inc. is a high-end technology and business strategy firm that provides services to help accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies. Advaiya serves the leading large technology firms and their partner ecosystem as a strategic vendor. Specifically, we perform the following high-level services:

  • Consult with our clients to develop a strategy to help them roll out their new technology
  • Create sales, marketing, and technical content
  • Provide training and pre-sales support
  • Support technical delivery of emerging technologies
  • Analyze business/function processes

For more information, see our website at www.advaiya.com.

The world's largest independent developer community with thousands of top-quality programming articles and tutorials—and hundreds of new articles each month—plus code snippets, discussions, news and the best bunch of developers on the net. The Code Project's community of Visual Studio .NET developers is joined together with certain common goals: to learn, teach and have fun programming. Developers from all over the world come together to share source code, tutorials and knowledge for free—to help their fellow programmers. The Code Project features in-depth, how to articles on ASP.NET, C#, Web Development, AJAX, IIS, and more. Join today (it's free)!

CrystalTech Web Hosting, Inc. is one of the largest Windows web hosting providers in the industry, now hosting more than 100,000 domains for small and medium-sized businesses worldwide. As a company that prides itself on world class 24x7 phone, email and live chat support, CrystalTech has acquired most of its customers through word-of-mouth referrals and offers a dependable, highly redundant network, state-of-the-art datacenter, the latest technologies available on the Windows platform, and a full line of business solutions that includes payment gateway services, SSL certificates, domain registrations and more.

Developer Express

Build Your Best, Without Limits or Compromise...
Developer Express engineers feature-complete visual components and IDE tools for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and the Web in the shortest possible time. All of our products come with a 60 day unconditional money back guarantee and fully functional evaluation versions are available for download at www.devexpress.com

Infragistics

Electric Rain introduces the StandOut Presentation Solution, enabling designers to produce engaging, rich media presentations that are easily editable by their business clients. StandOut Designer allows professional designers to build engaging, broadcast-quality presentations for their clients using powerful multimedia design tools, while StandOut Presenter allows business professionals to easily edit and customize those presentations. StandOut leverages the powerful graphics capabilities of Windows Vista and .Net 3.0 to enable stunning visual presentations that improve the communication experience and achieve results. Electric Rain is a Boulder, Colorado-based company with a vision of bringing easy-to-use multimedia software for business and design professionals.

Infragistics

Infragistics leads through its innovative control toolsets designed for the presentation needs of Web applications. NetAdvantage for ASP.NET, bolstered by the Aikido Framework for lightweight no-touch AJAX controls, empowers your developers to apply new technologies. Become more discoverable with SEO awareness, then produce rich customer experiences in accessible XHTML and our CSS standards-based Application Styling Framework. Empower your users to best express themselves, thereby cementing your customer retention, brand impression and up-selling opportunities. Next generation controls for Silverlight will fuse rich content and media. Already, NetAdvantage for WPF delivers hi-fi UI for customer-facing applications with revolving carousels and data visualization.

Telerik

Telerik is a leading vendor of development tools and components for Microsoft .NET. Building on our expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

Zumobi

Zumobi revolutionizes the way people access, retrieve and share Web-based content on their mobile phones. Through an intuitive, lush user interface, Zumobi allows people to easily “bounce” in and out of snack-sized bits of the entertainment they want and to stay on top of the information they need throughout the day, while offering advertisers a better way to connect with consumers through their mobile phones. For mobile Web developers, Zumobi delivers an open, device-neutral platform for building and deploying rich content for mobile phones. Zumobi also makes it simple and profitable to build and deliver Zumobi Tiles through a single standard for development and deployment and an attractive revenue sharing model.