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Opinion: A Circuitous Route
Question: “If you don’t have the 5 years’ experience requested by the job description, how do you break into the industry?” At industry conferences like MIX10, one of the most important things you can do is attend outside events—the ones hosted ad hoc or set up from people outside “the inner circle.” So often, these [...]
TechEd Online (re)Launched
To correspond with the TechEd North America 2010 conference held in New Orleans June 7 – 10, I was tasked with stewarding the redesign of the TechEd Online site. This site is the home for thousands of videos from TechEd N.A., and past events, and will continue to grow as TechEd makes its way around [...]
Opinion: "Cheers to saying no"
I published a new Opinion today, which stemmed from a conversation Tami and I had about working with one potential client. I’ve been in this situation may times and it totally stinks. You’d like to get the work, you want to be nice, but you *know* that client is a total pain in the ass [...]
Opinion: “Design For Tables”
Okay, the title of this Opinion (Design for Tables) is purposfully a little misleading. When I’m talking of tables in this Opinion piece, written for visitmix.com, I’m talking of desiging for actual tables, or, more specifically, Microsoft Surface and other tablet/touch devices. Honestly, I to think I’d talk about desinging with actual HTML <tables> is [...]
Opinion: “Transparency Yields Better Results”
I had a really hard time writing this Opinion piece for visitmix.com, and was truly thankful to have a great copy-editor hack it down a bit for me. Originally I was speaking about the fact that the recently released application, The Archivist, has been getting use in areas of academia and law, fields we hadn’t considered [...]
Amateurz (Spydah Hip-hop Soulbass Mix)
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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 the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]