Entries tagged with mix08 - MIX Online

Watch the MIX08 Keynotes in Hyperspeed

allenjs — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:35:00 GMT

How did we take a boring old ballroom at the Venetian and convert it into an exciting and magical venue, replete with Scott Guthrie juggling and Steve Ballmer manhandling Guy Kawasaki's MacBook Air and cheering for web developers? Watch this short timelape video to see the whole process from bare ballroom through setup, rehearsals, keynotes, and then final teardown after the show.

If you want to see the keynotes at normal speed (or at 1.5x speed by playing in media player with ctrl+shift+g), you can view these links:

MIX08 Day 1 Keynote
MIX08 Day 2 Keynote
Keynote Highlight: Internet Explorer 8
Keynote Highlight: Silverlight Momentum
Keynote Highlight: Hard Rock
Keynote Highlight: Aston Martin
Keynote Highlight: NBC Olympics
Keynote Highlight: AOL
Keynote Highlight: DoubleClick
Keynote Highlight: Cirque
Keynote Highlight: Mobile Social Networking
Keynote Highlight: WeatherBug
Keynote Highlight: Nokia

Nokia MIX08 Keynote Announce

allenjs — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:11:00 GMT

Here is the footage from Nokia's MIX08 Keynote announcement.

MIX08 Keynote: Dean Hachamovitch

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:30:00 GMT

This is the IE8 keynote from MIX08, led by Dean Hachamovitch. Dean talks about CSS, web standards, new AJAX features, and Activities and WebSlices.

MIX08 Keynote: Mobile Social Networking

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:22:00 GMT

Check out this footage from the MIX08 keynote; a mobile social networking application built in Silverlight by Stimulant and StepChange. You can also see an interview with the guys from Stimulant, or check out StepChange's OpenSpace presentation.

NBC Olympics in MIX08 Keynote

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:09:00 GMT

The NBC Olympics demo was a highlight of the MIX08 keynote; an incredible media-viewing experience built in Silverlight. Here is the footage from the keynote. You can also see an interview with Perkins Miller talking about their solution here.

DoubleClick MIX08 Keynote

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:06:00 GMT

DoubleClick demonstrates integration between Silverlight and their ad-tracking platform, in this clip from the MIX08 keynote.

Cirque MIX08 Keynote

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:03:00 GMT

In the MIX08 keynote, Cirque showed off a WPF-based line-of-business application. Check out this clip and you might even spy one of our VPs trying out for a new career as a performer!

AOL MIX08 Keynote

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Here is the MIX08 keynote footage of AOL's mail client in Silverlight. You can see an interview with the AOL folks here, or watch the breakout session where they describe their lessons learned.

Aston Martin MIX08 Keynote

allenjs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:58:00 GMT

Here is the footage from Aston Martin's MIX08 keynote, showing the end-to-end experience from computer to auto with Silverlight. You can also see an interview with Aston and their agency, Splendid, here.

Some More Post-MIX08 Thoughts

allenjs — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:21:00 GMT

MIX is over, but the reverberations continue. You’ve no doubt seen the news articles highlighting IE8, Silverlight 2, and the now legendary Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki keynote. And you probably know about the For starters, a LOT of video from the Open Space sessions has been published. You can watch all of the sessions here – there were nearly half as many attendee-driven Open Space sessions as “regular”sessions. One of my favorite is Carl Franklin playing acoustic guitar – and we have to give props to the guy who plugged in his electric guitar in the middle of the sandbox area and started jamming.

In addition to the Open Space sessions, videos from all 16 of the “Show Off” contestants have been uploaded. These are some fascinating and high-quality entries; While it was somewhat overshadowed by the IE8 and Silverlight 2 announcements, the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) announcement during the keynote was significant. Many news outlets picked up the story a few days later, and we saw some comparisons to a product from Amazon. You will definitely want to read this reply from the SSDS team: “It is simple, but it is not SimpleDB”.

Shortly after the session on MySpace API’s, Vittorio Bertocci published some information that had been missing from the session. The team at Microsoft.com video portal demonstrated yet another Microsoft property taking a bet on Silverlight. And Marc Schweigert facilitated a team of 11 CodePlex developers building an IntelliSense library for Virtual Earth.

Many people attended both MIX08 and SXSW, and it was fun to watch the tweets. Particularly when Chris Wilson told the guys from Opera and Mozilla to watch sessions.visitmix.com, or when the ultimate Phizzpop design challenge took place at Maggie Mae’s. We’re looking forward to next year, with SxSWi running from March 13-17^th, and MIX09 from March 18^th-20^th.

David Armano

allenjs — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:09:00 GMT

When I first started reading David Armano's blog posts about the "Fuzzy Tail" and the blurring of boundaries between roles in our industry, I knew we had to have him at MIX.

He gave a session entitled "Why Fuzzy is the New Clear" at our first MIX UX track. We interviewed him to find out about his session. Watch all the way to the end to find out details about his new book :-)

Lou Carbone on Experience Engineering

allenjs — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Lou Carbone was one of the most popular presenters at MIX07, and we were really fortunate to have him present again this year as part of our new UX track. He delivered a well-received session, "Getting Clued in to Experience Engineering".

In addition to watching his session online, you can check out this interview conducted by Will Tschumy, to learn more about Lou and his work.

King of Kong Interview

allenjs — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:42:00 GMT

In this interview, Brian Keller talks to the stars of "King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters". They talk about how Steve's background in engineering contributes to his gameplay, his work as a science teacher, and the world-record attempt at MIX08.

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