MIX07

In the keynote, Jason DaPonte showed off a prototype that allows Radio 1 users to share media playlists with one another, using Silverlight and Live Messenger.  After the keynote, Rory sat down him and learned how BBC is using these technologies.

It's just a few hours until the conference starts.  Jeff, Laura, Rory, Tim and I are working like busy little bees to make sure you can experience the event from your feed reader.  We took a few moments out of our day to sprawl out and say "hi".  Our first videos are in the…

The guys from Frog Design are here giving a talk about how they implemented the Yahoo! instant messenger client in WPF.  Rory sat down with them to hear about their experiences being very early adopters of both WPF and Silverlight.

It’s Day 1 of MIX07, and some of the world’s leading Web designers, developers, and business and marketing professionals are taking over the Venetian! Attendees from all over the world have gathered to hear about the latest technologies aimed at pushing the web further. Microsoft Chief Software…

We'll be uploading video of some of the keynote demos later, but in the meantime, here are some screenshots you can use (if you missed the keynote, or want to link).CBS HDTV Video Sharing:Cloud Grid Outtro Share Top View Tray Upload Progress Video Detail Video Logo

Thirteen23 is a design/development firm who specialize in creating innovative new experiences in WPF. They're here at MIX, and they mashed up a quick WPF application to show you the sessions schedule, photos from the event, people blogging about MIX, and events happening around Vegas. It's really…

We just added the following new session: Session Code: BD004 Date and Location: Tuesday May 1 at 11:45AM to 1:00PM in Lando 4204 Title: Opening up Windows Live Data Speaker: Yaron Goland, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Abstract: Data wants to be free! So come to this technical deep dive to…

It was a blast watching the keynote stream live while following the twitter feed.  The twitter backchannel gives you a feel for how people are reacting to the presentations and demos. Here's a snapshot of the big screens in the keynote room, showing live feed mashup from Facebook (photos in the…

DEV11R: "Building Rich Web Experiences using Silverlight and JavaScript for Developers" was too packed and we had to turn people away.  We are repeating today (Monday April 30) at 4:30PM to 5:45PM in Lando 4201.  Sorry for any inconvenience!  (And for those of you watching…

In today's keynote, Netflix demonstrated a Silverlight-based video-on-demand player.  The UI for this thing is truly impressive.  Watch here to see how Netflix used Silverlight to provide a cross-platform media player.