A dozen technology enthusiasts led by James Coleridge have left Vancouver International Airport to begin a 30-day summit of Mount Logan in the Yukon, checking 822 pounds of gear across 14 bags. I will be flying out in five hours to meet up with them at the basecamp this weekend. It's been an amazing…

You've seen the footage of oxygen bar, massage bar, and Elvis playing Guitar Hero. Here is some final footage from the last day of the event. Good thing we had beanbags and couches for the sleepy attendees. So sad it has to end... Make sure to let this one play all the way through.   

Well, MIX07 is officially over.  We grabbed some tape from behind the scenes of VisitMIX so you can get an idea of how we produced this site during the event.  Jeff, Laura, Mahesh and Chris are eating health food in the spacious editing suite at the Venetian after 72-hours…

Elvis knew by day one that Silverlight was the hot topic.  Lori grabbed Mike Harsh from the Silverlight team and Scott Hanselman a Regional Director and asked them for the short, sweet, succinct, concise, snappy definition.  Here you go!  Feel free to share with your Mom or Elvis or…

Ryan Stewart, the well-known RIA guy from ZDNet, interviewed Kevin Gallo and Mike Harsh from the Silverlight team. The interview covers a lot of in-depth back-and-forth about the tradeoffs we made in shipping Silverlight. He doesn't throw too many softballs.  

Matt Goyer was at MIX07 to talk about Redfin's use of Virtual Earth.  He showed us a couple of demos and answered some questions while he was hanging out in the MIX Sandbox area.

Gavin Gear of Microsoft explains how Ink and pen input integrate with Microsoft Silverlight Beta 1.0. See demos of ink over photos, ink over videos, animation of ink, and more.

On day one of MIX07, Netflix demonstrated a truly sweet UI for video on-demand, using Silverlight.  You might have seen the video of that demo.  Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer for Netflix, sat down with Rory and went a bit more into detail about Netflix's use of Silverlight.

I met Raymond Herrera a few years ago back in LA at a friends Halo Lan Party where he repeatedly schooled me in just about any map we played.  He's considered one of the most talented drummers in Rock N Roll and has a huge history in the gaming industry.  He's also just a great guy. …

Flatburger... a strange name but an interesting concept for a company that is enabling the little guys to have a marketplace for selling modular software and bringing together the three main components of Software as a Service (Saas) the customer, the hoster and the developer. In these type of 3…