MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design. Explore the future of the standards-based web – join the conversation at MIX11.
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New Technologies for Immersive Content Creation- Joseph Joy, Eric Stollnitz
- Research, Video, Windows Phone, Bing, PivotViewer
- 200
- RES06
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 3:00PM to 4:00PM
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We present two exciting technologies that greatly lower the barrier to creating rich, immersive content. “Rich Interactive Narratives” (RIN) enables weaving together compelling multimedia stories incorporating interactive technologies such as Photosynth, Bing Maps, and Pivot. “3D Scanning Using an Ordinary... -
Developing iPhone and iPad Apps that Leverage Windows Azure- Simon Guest
- Windows Azure, Cloud Services, Third-Party Speaker
- 200
- EXT18
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 1:30PM to 2:30PM
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You are building apps for the iPhone/iPad, yet you remain curious about what the cloud can offer. Is it possible to deploy scalable, mobile Web applications on Windows Azure? How about storing data in the cloud? Is it possible to use the cloud for push notifications to the device? In this session you'll...
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Designer and Developer: A Case for the Hybrid- Jeff Croft
- HTML5, Design, JavaScript, CSS3, Third-Party Speaker, Web Standards
- 300
- EXT07
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 9:00AM to 10:00AM
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Should designers code? Or is is okay for one to specialize in visual design and expect others to build their vision? As we get farther and farther away from the days of the "webmaster," and become an industry of specialists, are we losing some of the beauty, efficiency, and innovation that can be found... -
Filling the HTML5 Gaps with Polyfills and ShimsEveryone wants to jump into HTML5 but how do you use the cool features of this new specification while ensuring older browsers render your web pages as expected? This is where polyfills and shims come in. In the session, you’ll learn how to use specially crafted JavaScript and CSS code that emulate...
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Windows Azure Storage: Getting Started and Best Practices- Jai Haridas
- Windows Azure, Cloud Services
- 200
- SVC10
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM
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Windows Azure Storage provides a scalable and reliable storage service in the cloud for blobs, tables, queues and drives. In this session we will quickly show you how to use storage through the REST-based programming model - whether your applications are running in Windows Azure or elsewhere. We will...
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Riding the Geolocation Wave- Tatham Oddie
- HTML5, UX, Third-Party Speaker, Web API, Web Standards
- 300
- EXT04
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 1:30PM to 2:30PM
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It’s pretty obvious by now that geolocation is a heavy player in the next wave of applications and APIs. Now is the time to learn how to take advantage of this information and add context to your own applications. In this session we’ll look at geolocation at every layer of the stack –...
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Interactive Panel: Kinect and Natural User Interfaces (NUI)- Darren Bennett, Alex Kipman, Kristin Tolle, Curtis Wong
- Kinect, Panel, Research, NUI
- 200
- RES05
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 12:00PM to 1:00PM
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With Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360, you are the controller. The system senses the 3rd dimension (depth) of the players and the environment, and revolutionizes the experience of how a player interacts with games and entertainment. With its broad availability and low cost, many researchers and practitioners...
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What Exactly Are We Doing on the Web?- DL Byron
- UX, Third-Party Speaker, Web Standards
- 200
- EXT05
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM
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Nearly 20 years into this industry -- one that we mostly just made up as we went along -- it's time to ask, what exactly is our craft? What do we do and how well do we do it? Byron will ask questions about a professional ethos, values, and ongoing growth from the early days to now and the future. He'll... -
The Tale of Two Apps: Making a Splash in the Windows Phone Marketplace- Bálint Orosz, András Velvárt
- Third-Party Speaker, Windows Phone, Open Call
- 200
- OPN10
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 3:00PM to 4:00PM
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“Cocktail Flow” and “SurfCube 3D Browser” - two of the top applications in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace. Both have received feedback like “my favorite part of this app is showing it to all my buddies who have iPhones, Android phones, or Palm phones.” This talk is...
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Powering Data On the Web and Beyond with SQL Azure- David Robinson
- ASP.NET, MVC, Windows Azure, SQL Azure
- 200
- SVC05
- Day 3
- April 14, 2011 from 10:30AM to 11:30AM
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This session will be jam-packed with demos and guidance on lighting up web experiences using SQL Azure, Microsoft’s suite of cloud database services. Using Visual Studio we’ll go through the steps to quickly architect cloud data-driven web user experiences in ASP.NET MVC3 that also scale for high volumes...
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