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Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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.
"Oomph2: A Microformats Toolkit" Now Available
Today we released the latest version of Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit.
Microformats are about enhancing the web, representing data in HTML and moving that data around. Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, designers and users, making it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. Oomph makes consuming and producing content for the web [...]
New Opinion: I <3 hMedia
One of the nice things about hMedia is that it spans multiple media, specifically audio, video, and images, which is what people produce and consume on the web. This fact makes it attractive and we think it has good chances for widespread adoption. One of the nice aspects of hMedia is how it plays well [...]
Microformats live writer plugin
I’ll make this post the official live test of the Oomph Microformats Windows Live Writer hCard generator plugin. Wow, that’s a lot of words. Here’s what it generates, using my contact information:
Tim Aidlin
Microsoft
taidlin@microsoft.com
1 Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 USA
425.706.7655
http://thunderkick.us
We soon will be releasing this plugin as well as some other great tools that will [...]