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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MIX11 Day 1 Keynotes
MIX11 day 1 keynotes featuring Dean Hachamovitch, Steven Sinofsky, and Scott Guthrie.
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Identity Unraveled with the Access Control Service
Come learn how to use the Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service as a key building block for your web applications. See how your applications can seamlessly work with LiveID, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, and corporate identities - all from a single codebase. Watch the barriers to entry disappear,...
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Interactive Panel: Kinect and Natural User Interfaces (NUI)
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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DIVA - The Future of Live Sports Consumption on the Web
Sky Sports is delivering a ground breaking video experience for their UEFA Champions League coverage using Deltatre’s Data Integrated Video Application (DIVA). In this session Jim will present a case study on how DIVA uses Silverlight and Smooth Streaming to go well beyond simple video delivery by leveraging...
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What Exactly Are We Doing on the Web?
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...
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The Cross-Channel Experience
No matter how many departments your organization has, to your customers, it's all the same business. They expect a cohesive experience across all touch-points with your company, regardless of whether it's related to advertising, customer service, social presence, or the actual product or service you...
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Windows Azure from Startup to Scale
As a consumer web startup, you spend a significant portion of your time raising awareness of your brand and driving traffic to your site. But, what happens when you succeed? How do you scale instantly from on-boarding 1 new user an hour to 1 new user every 5 seconds? MyWebCareer operates one of the...
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A Soccer Team in the Clouds: Social Gaming Running in Windows Azure
Bola is a successful social game published by Three Melons - now Disney Corp - in different social networks including Facebook and Orkut. This session will present a highly-scalable, flexible, Azure-based architecture design that supports more than 10 million users with spikes of over 1.2 million daily...
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Powering Data On the Web and Beyond with SQL Azure
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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MMP Player Framework: Past, Present, Future
Microsoft Media Platform Player Framework, formerly known as Silverlight Media Framework (SMF), is Microsoft's premiere video player framework. The open-source Player Framework now boasts a feature set that includes stereoscopic 3D support, health monitoring, advertising, Windows Phone 7 support and...