Videos in category MIX06

Amazon subsidiary Alexa.com is leveling the search playing field. For the first time, developers looking to build the next "big thing" in search or an ultra custom search engine have access to the 300 terabytes of Alexa crawl data, along with the utilities to search, process, and publish their own custom subset of the data-all at a reasonable price. Developers no longer need a million dollar bu...

As content and services are delivered to customers in more locations, on more devices, users are expecting information to be more tailored to their context and more relevant not to just "What" they are looking for, but "Where". Microsoft's Alex Daley hosts this session exploring ways to reach customers with location relevant information, building richer experiences that make your site or applic...

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a new Web service that allows .NET software developers to incorporate the power of human decision-making into their automated software systems. Units of work (known as HITs or Human Intelligence Tasks), qualifications necessary for workers to accept the work, and payment information for completing the work are encapsulated and uploaded to www.mturk.com where they becom...

The Microsoft Office applications are some of the most widely used applications on the planet. Learn how your content and services can reach your users while they work. Topics include: developing to the Office "12" Open XML document format, extending the Office UI, connecting with RSS feeds, and integrating with Web services and data. Anil Dash SixApart Anil Dash is Vice President of Profession...

Delivering compelling content to television sets around the Digital Home presents new design challenges for consumer content. Join us to learn more about best practices for creating new "ten foot" user interfaces for experiences on Windows Media Center and on Xbox 360. Brian Kralyevich Microsoft Brian has more than 16 years of experience in design, architecture, rich media and brand design. Pri...

Windows Live provides unique opportunities for developers from hobbyists to large ISVs to build social networking applications on top of the largest contact and address book database on the Internet. Developers can build these applications utilizing Windows Live services such as instant messaging, search, location based mapping, blogging, gadgets, and others. These can be AJAX style Web applica...

In this session, we explore how Microsoft technologies can be used to build a cutting-edge "sticky" community platform with .NET. See examples of how RSS is used in new and creative ways, such as "secure" RSS, dynamic RSS search feeds, and aggregate blogs, in addition to real-world uses of AJAX to simply complex Web UI. Rob Howard Telligent Rob is a former employee of the Microsoft corporation ...

Explore the challenges and lessons learned developing the Windows Live and Gadgets Web client frameworks powering Windows Live, Hotmail (Kahuna beta), Spaces, and more. This technical talk presents design and architectural considerations for building interactive AJAX-like sites. See how componentization, network management, accessibility, page composition, and more impact the design and enginee...

Open syndication formats and protocols, the rise of user-generated content, and advances in digital media technology are all changing the way that people incorporate media into their lifestyles. The changes give consumers more choice about how they mix and mash their media, and create new opportunities for publishers of microcontent and blockbusters alike. Come join our diverse panel of industr...

Join a discussion about the future roadmap for Internet Explorer. We present an overview of the direction we envision beyond IE7, hear from some industry experts about what they'd like us to do, and then hold an open discussion panel to take your input to help shape the future of IE. Andy Clarke Microsoft Andy Clarke is an internationally sought-after speaker, designer and consultant. He is cre...