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Amateurz (Spydah Hip-hop Soulbass Mix)
Here’s a track I created with some friends of mine back around 2000 while living at the Brooklynhaus with Johnny Mayday. This was the house with the kinda-creepy-but-ultimately-cool secret room in the back of the house. There was a room at this place that you could only get to through either John’s room or [...]
MIX Online Version Two-Oh!
We released a new version of the MIX Online site yesterday and hope you’ll check it out. Our content is much more easily discoverable and readable, and we have a new lab, Incarnate.
Incarnate: Find and use your avatar anywhere
You might have noticed the cool commenting system I’m using on this blog. At MIX Online, here at Microsoft, we’ve developed a new prototype called Incarnate. Incarnate is a system that allows readers of a blog to use their already-existing avatars from common social-networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and XBox Live.
Let the visitors [...]
MIX10K Contest Opens Today
Now in its second year, the MIX team and conference brings the MIX10K contest to the community. It’s a simple contest designed to maximize creativity within strictly confined boundaries. In this case, the boundaries are file-size: namely, 10K. As well, the application must be built using of Silverlight, Gestalt or HTML5.
For a full list of [...]
MIX10 Registration Opens
For the fourth year in a row I have the opportunity to be on the team behind the Microsoft MIX conference. This year the conference will be held in Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay in March, 2010. We’re going to be doing some amazing things and I welcome your suggestions on how to make this [...]
Zombie Photos
My friend, Shawn Laasch recently mentioned me on Facebook, to which I responded.
He was working on enhancing some of his photos with Photoshop for a Zombie movie he and his brother are working on.
He needed pretty quick turnaround on these, so I wasn’t able to give them as much love as I would have liked, [...]
REMIX09 Korea
I came across the REMIX09 Korea site today, and thought it was really interesting how they took the original MIX09 stylesheet and site and made a new site that fits the their needs but still holds true to the original brand.
Tami and Sophie’s trip to Arizona
Tami and Sophie took a great trip to Arizona to see the/Tami’s side of the family while I was on a business trip to Los Angeles. She posted photos here.
My favorite:
PDC09
I am fortunate to be on the Microsoft team that hosts and develops the Microsoft PDC, Professional Developers Conference. The PDC conferences are the “premiere developer conference,” in the eyes of the community and brings thousands of attendees from all over the world. I was in the role of Creative Director for the [...]