Writings
Meet the 10K Apart Winners0
by Nishant Kothary on Oct 13, 2011 in News
Two months ago, we announced the second 10K Apart contest — The Responsive Edition — in partnership with our friends at An Event Apart. Today, after much deliberating, we are proud to announce the very deserving, incredibly inspiring, and mind-numbingly clever winners. Check them out on the 10K site. To give you a little background, Read More…
10K Apart: The Responsive Edition9
by Nishant Kothary on Aug 2, 2011 in News
Last year, in partnership with An Event Apart, we debuted the 10K Apart Contest. The challenge was simple: build the best application you can with no more than 10K of code. If our analytics are telling the truth, the 10K was a smash hit. The contest reaped 367 entries in less than a month. And Read More…
Introducing MIX Online 2.618033991
by Nishant Kothary on May 2, 2011 in News
Just over a year ago, we released a major update to MIX Online dubbed 2.0. Today, we are releasing another update, albeit smaller — MIX Online 2.61803399. Yes, you read that right. Read More…
Introducing Okapi1
by Thomas Lewis on Nov 15, 2010 in News
"Hey Thomas, do you want to meet Joshua Davis?" Thus it began. But let me start from the beginning. In 2007, I saw Joshua Davis present at a conference in New York where he spoke about the concept of digital, generative art. I really enjoyed his talk and hoped that someday we could work together Read More…
Introducing the Ai to Canvas Plug-In30
by Thomas Lewis on Oct 12, 2010 in News
With the release of browsers that support HTML5 and related technologies, we will see web designers and developers build web apps that take advantage of the canvas tag to add drawing capabilities without an add-in to the browser. We wanted to build a tool that allowed you to take a drawing application you are familiar with and make it easy to export to canvas Read More…
How Do You Use The Archivist?10
by Karsten Januszewski on Sep 28, 2010 in News
The Archivist—our lab focused on archiving, analyzing and exporting tweets—just had its 3-month birthday. Hurray! The service has been humming along nicely, with over 150,000,000 tweets archived and over 20,000 unique visitors since June of 2010. It’s always fascinating to find out all the ways in which the software we create gets used, many of Read More…
Is Your HTML5 10K Apart?22
by Nishant Kothary on Jul 29, 2010 in News
It’s time to get back to the basics—back to optimizing every little byte like your life depends on it. Announcing 10K Apart, a contest for people who make web sites Read More…
Introducing The Archivist8
by Karsten Januszewski on Jun 28, 2010 in News
The Archivist is a new lab/website from Mix Online that lets people archive, analyze and export tweets. Here’s a little more about why we built The Archivist and who we built it for. The Transitoriness of Twitter Twitter isn’t going away anytime soon. From Twitter: The tweets keep coming. And coming. Exponentially. Then again, tweets Read More…
I Can Haz Data Visualization?8
by Thomas Lewis on Feb 4, 2010 in News
Everybody loves good data visualization. The New York Times has been especially good at using data visualization to demonstrate the power of information visualization as a communication tool. We thought the topic was intriguing enough to create a lab about it. As you may know, we have a sister conference called MIX where we will Read More…
MIX Online Brings Holiday Gifts Early9
by Thomas Lewis on Dec 15, 2009 in News
Today we’re announcing a trifecta of holiday cheer: an all-up redesign of our website, a new lab called Incarnate and a year-round contest called
