Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/539813_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella The dream team is back. Well, nobody really calls them the "Dream Team" but they do - anyway, they've rustled up the top stories at Microsoft this week and here they are:What happens in Vegas, happened at MIX!Laura's Keynote DemoFourSquare & Bing, a natural fitSeinfeld & Gates ads explainedMicrosoft goes to Coachella???...the furry coat (pre-Laura's capture of it) en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:07:56 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:07:56 GMT Rev9 Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella That coat had a busy night... (I have no idea what is up with the look on my face, I think I was trying to look funny... I didn't succeed)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/betterthaneveryone/4445164272/

 

posted by Duncanma

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055284730000000 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:47:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055284730000000 Duncanma Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella Ha ha! Duncan that's great!

posted by Laura10

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055603780000000 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:39:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055603780000000 Laura10 Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella When you mentioned MySpace being built on Microsoft technologies, I immediately had to point out that originally it was a Cold Fusion application, and as we can all remember, suffered terribly from performance, not to mention that the design was unwieldy.  Eventually they migrated to .NET using integration libraries between Cold Fusion and ASP.NET to help in the migration.  I still believe that if MySpace had of originally been built on ASP.NET that they would be even bigger today because they would have had the flexibility and scalability required, virtually "out-of-the-box" with ASP.NET and that delaying migration gave time for competitors to grow, as consumers frustrated with the awful performance and glaring design flocked to Facebook and other sites.  Just trying Facebook was enough for most people to switch.  It was faster and lighweight and didn't give you a headache.  At first.

posted by Richard.Hein

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055640860000000 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:41:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055640860000000 Richard.Hein Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella ... and then Facebook added Farmville Wink

posted by PaulMest

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055744440000000 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:34:04 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055744440000000 PaulMest Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella Xbox uses a point system so they can have one "currency" across the entire Live platform instead of trying to figure out local currencies in every location. 

posted by LarryLarsen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055797790000000 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:02:59 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055797790000000 LarryLarsen Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella I'm really happy Microsoft chose to use Silverlight/XNA for their Phone Platform and games.  It will make porting applications very straight forward.  It really goes to show that Microsoft wants everyone to have a great experience on this new mobile platform.  Whether you're a developer, consumer, designer, or my mom, the entire process has really been thought about.  Perhaps that is why they took their time, to get it right *wink*.  Releasing the tools for free is straight icing.  I think that Microsoft really upped the ante on mobile development, go Microsoft!

 

I really like to see Apple mock this.

posted by ChrisStepaniuk

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055854650000000 Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:37:45 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634055854650000000 ChrisStepaniuk Re: Ping 53: Stories from MIX, FourSquare, Xbox Game Room, Coachella That's a convenience for Xbox... and pissed me the hell off whenever I have to calculate the real value. I want to see this gone, please. The very least you can do is make it like Nintendo. 100 pts = $1

posted by Minh

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634056587290000000 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:58:49 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/PingShow/Ping-53-Stories-from-MIX#c634056587290000000 Minh