Life from Seoul it’s MIX: Keynote Day

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editorial comment: wow! this dudes rocked the world of interaction today… looking forward to play with all this goods!

11.23: And this is it.

11.22: Silverlight 3 is out in beta and will have a single beta before release later this year.

11.21: Silverlight 3 is 40K smaller than Silverlight 2.

11.19: Installation happens straight away with no glitch to the user experience.

11.13: First out of the browser experience demoed: radio station with support for offline access. Really neat.

11.09: Silverlight out of the browser support running on a sandbox environment and support for online capabilities.

11.08: Silverlight is a full compatible sub-set of WPF allowing for scaling up to full desktop experience with ease.

11.04: Data form coming to Silverlight 3. Creating LOB application is great and easy.

11.00: Data push support to the client, binary xml to reduce payloads and support to multi-tier data services… lots of data improvements.

10.59: Eclipse support for Silverlight comes to the mac.

editorial comment: Blend is rocking the house!!!

10.55: demoing sample data to be used in design time from local sources or remote source with drag and drop support.

10.52: support for behaviors, transitions and state wire framing for low-fi interaction prototyping.

10.50: document generation for the experience design right from within blend.

10.49: demoing Sketchflow player running on safari on a mac with feedback support for wireframes.

10.45: hmmm wireframe support right within Blend, this is getting better and better. Controls can be as real or conceptual as needed for the moment at hand.

10.44: The application that was in the sketches of bill earlier is now live on the stage.

10.43: First public preview of Blend 3 by John Harris.

10.42: Expression Blend 3: Sketch Flow, similar to the prototype Bill Buxton showed earlier, for low-fi prototyping (I want to get my hands in this)

10.41: The egg slides just made it’s appearance he he… who has not used those slides.

10.40: playboyarchive.com is going live with this user experience and 15 issues made available free.

10.40: Official release on Bondi for Rolling Stones will be in November this year.

10.38: Demoing touch support in Silverlight.

10.35: Vertigo showing a deep zoom application for The Rolling Stone Magazine. – got to say this guys are amazing at it. 

10.34: Bondi Digital Publishing & Vertigo in the house.

10.32: Clear type support both in mac and windows. Multi touch support. Supports library caching. Deep linking WOW 

10.31: Support for monetization

10.29: This new features should be used to do good no evil. True!

10.28: Perspective 3D support. bitmap and pixel API. pixel shader effects. deep zoom improvements including Hardware Acceleration.

10.24: next Olympics will be delivered using Silverlight. with DVR experience. providing the experience customer expect after the Beijing Olympics. (hope Schematic is also part of the renewal)

10.22: Going over statistics from Beijing 08. A phenomenal partner success (a great work from my mates at Schematic too).

10.22: NBC Sports is in the house.

10.20: Live content can also take advantage of smooth streaming but also pause live video with  a tivo-like experience and replay.

10.19: Instant seek in streaming thru a hack on bit-rate to minimize stop playing.

10.17: Demo time for expression encoder multi bit-rate support with smooth streaming and automatic publishing to the web server.

10.15: Akamai now offering smooth streaming thru their services.

10.14: IIS Media Services. Available for free (now here is hard on Flash… how much is Flash Media Server?)

10.13: SL3 will have hardware based acceleration. New codec support (H264), raw bit stream support. Improve logging support for media analytics.

10.13: Silverlight 3 is in the house.

10.11: Netflix: Because of the experience they got from Silverlight they now have made Silverlight their main platform for web deployment. An a great way to test things to be used later in their device-based experiences.

10.09: Netflix: user benefits from progressive delivery of experiences. every 2 weeks there is a release of an improved video player.

10.08: Netflix: Adaptive Streaming => more bits = better video.

10.06: Netflix: installer experience is awesome and took complexity out of the ways with support out of the box for content protection and a great platforms (ouch Flash)

10.05: Netflix: With Silverlight the cross platform is real.

10.04: Kevin Mc Entee from Netflix is on stage talking about their experience using Silverlight to deliver Nextflix streaming to the Mac.

10:00: Virtual Earth SDK and World Wide Telescope now available thru Silverlight.

9.55: Now it’s Joel Spolsky, from joelonsoftware.com and Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror; on stage talking about stackoverflow.com an amazing service running in ASP.NET MVC.

9.54: Talking about Bizspark, a great opportunity for startups.

9.53: New .NET services available thru Azure and made available this year. Azure is still in preview mode but will be made available full later this year.

9.52: Azure will support not only .NET application but also PHP.

9.52: Azure is now making it into the scene.

9.47: A demo of Web Platform Installer is done.

9.44: Scott is announcing the Web Platform Installer and the Web Application Gallery to help the provision of new and free web tools and applications to help with the development and distribution of web apps under the Windows platform.

9.42: With .NET 4 and VS10 there will be support for url routing and web caching thru velocity, just as well support for multiple web.config files depending on the stage where they are been used.

9.41: Scott is going thru Visual Studio features made available with VS10, got to say it is a really big list of features and features into authoring, deployment and testing.

9.37: SuperPreview will be available as part of Expression Web 3 as well as a standalone application which will be made available for free.

9.36: Expression Web SuperPreview supports side by side preview of different browsers including IE6.

9.33: Erick Saltwell, PM of Expression Web, is on stage talking about a new feature called SuperPreview. Letting you test your websites on multiple browsers, life.

9.32: Expression Web 3 is announced with support for both ASP.NET and PHP development.

9.32: the mission is to make Windows the best platform.

9.32: the Gu starts introducing the tools and web server technologies that will allow to create great experiences.

9.31: Scott makes a rock star entrance.

9.30: funny Brian Goldfrab just appear as a buddy guard. I will swear he is like that even in real life.

9.29: a video shows back of the stage on the Gu dancing disco. in an indian haha. hilarious.

9.28: now bill buxton is introducing the gu where he is gonna talk about how microsoft will enable us developers and designers deliver.

9.27: six degrees of separation between technologies. all connected all between by design. all singing the same song: how to help developer thru a unified way to return on experience thru their work.

9.26: and the shortest demo of a win 7 hp touch pc. gone.

9.24: 3 years ago only 1 design. Now 10. significant grow in hiring. double of the tech hiring's are in design fields.

9.23: we are in an industry with a lack of tools for experience design. we are doing magic with out the right tools but be careful not get biased on your design.

9.21:  bill buxton is showing the sketches of a tool he dreams of to take sketches and start adding transitions… movement… still in low fidelity.

9.20: if can’t characterize the interaction then something is wrong. states are just as important as the transitions. they need to be design as there is some much ways to do them and a high chance get them wrong.

9.19: if you are a developer don’t start design programming. get away from it.

9.18: use post-it notes to do low-fidelity prototyping (wireframes). it is fun and easy… better than touching technology artifacts.

9.16: if we cannot come up with 5 different ways to do something and not to be emotionally tied to one of them then we are doing something wrong.

9.15: our job is not to come out with answers but creating the correct question that will get us to the right answer.

9.13: designing objects is different from designing experiences. anyone can draw objects. experiences? we are use to not think of it.

9.10: experience designers are about creating stories with our product. not the product itself but shaping the experience to get the desired return.

9.09: learn from the past is key. kodak made their first model colorful after the first iteration. apple did the same. ivy didn’t copied he learned from experience of others.

9.08: bill goes around successful stories about products that made it thru design. bell labs. kodak.

9.06: people need stories, it is the best way to get viral marketing. As experience designer we help our clients make it. our companies.

9.05: ux is the best position to be ever, it’s not about luck it is about been able to influence the next wave of experiences to make it in the return of experience.

9.04: cool video plays and Bill Buxton takes on the stage. Feeling lucky? and making fun of the economy and experience design :-) so much power.

9.02: keynote is starting, the screens are full with this event’s sponsors. announcements go on about the party and events. MIX 09 has officially started!

8.53: here I’m seating and waiting for the keynote to start. live feed from the Venetian couldn’t bee best. music is really lame though.

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It’s just minutes before one of the coolest conferences will start. Microsoft MIX is about to start with Bill Buxton and the Gu as keynote presenters, and I’m exited.

This year I have gone back to the life of an student and happen to be in Seoul where I’m taking my masters, yet there is no reason to be missing all the fun. So here I’m live blogging the keynote.

Bookmark this page as I will be updating it live as it goes.