There’s some tools around to help the interactivity… Technorati Search Flickr Search A backchannel – irc://freenode/mix06 A Wiki: Mix06.info
Mix06: MySpace
The team from MySpace were on stage this morning talking about the application and how they have used the Microsoft technologies to support the 60million users it has signed up. The use ASP.net and SQL server as infrastruture and recently moved to .net 2.0 for the home pages. In doing so, they reduced CPU usage […]
Mix06 – using Atlas
I’m not here for the all the real programming info that they are throwing out – in my area the challenge is to know about things just enough so that I can have a reasonable conversation with Technical Managers or developers; that’s the reason I need to know just enough about marketing as well, I […]
Mix06 – AdCenter
A failry short presentation about the Adcentre works. Targeted at online advertisers, both the small and the large, Adcenter is a way of managing campaigns. It’s an area that Microssoft are focusing heavily on and have a lot of research minds focused on the net generation. Currently, the drive is on to gieve better targeted […]
Mix06 – No power
They ask you to tag blog posts, Flickr photos with Mix06. There’s technorati searches, there’s a whole bunch of bloggers here. The wireless appears to be holding up well. This should be an interactive conference. So how much interaction will there be later as everyone’s batteries die as there are minimal powerpoints in the halls […]
Mix06 – first day
Finally got in..America West landed early and it was an easy trip to town. Unlike some of the UK journalists who got stuck in LA for a long time after their planes got cancelled. Got wirelessed up and checked feeds, saw Ben’s post on the strangeness of this place. Entirely agree..sitting down at the bar […]
Austin to Vegas – last day and Snow Patrol
IMG_3672 Originally uploaded by RachelC. I’m now leaving Austin to travel to Las Vegas. Austin was great..and weird. Apparently an island of sanity in the state of Texas. Not having chance to visit the rest of the state, I’ll stay happy in my ignorance of what the rest of it is like. Austin was laid […]
SXSW – Billy Bragg Interview: don’t form a band, get a blog!
The Blurb: “Billy Bragg comes to Austin on the occasion of the reissue of four albums: Life’s a Riot with Spy vs Spy, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg, Talking with the Taxman about Poetry, and The Internationale, on Yep Roc Records. Always fighting the good fight, Bragg has addressed political and personal themes in his […]
SXSW: Pretenders Interview
The Blurb: Pirate Radio,” a unique box set from Rock and Roll Hall of Famers the Pretenders, is out on March 14. Three days later, the band speaks in a very special SXSW Interview. Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers, Adam Seymour, and Nick Wilkinson discuss the retrospective, and look forward to their 2006 tour and future […]
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg Originally uploaded by RachelC. Getting ready for his talk…
Chrissie Hynde
Chrissie Hynde Originally uploaded by RachelC. Chrissie signing autographs after her interviews this pm.
IMG_3593
IMG_3593 Originally uploaded by RachelC. Last night I saw 2 performances. The first was from Persephone’s Bees, a 4 piece rock band from California. (track here). Both albums are going to be purchased!
Magnet
IMG_3599 Originally uploaded by RachelC. Magnet was one of the acts seen lst night, a singer-songwriter from Norway. (track here)
SXSW – Beastie Boys Audience Interview
The final panel of today is an interview with the Beasties boys. Queuing was mandatory, but the attendance appears to be the same as the Bruce Sterling monologue on Tuesday. Whilst knowing a fair bit of their music, I’ve never been a fan enough to work out who was who…so I took just general notes […]
RFID Tags
Yesterday, posters appeared around the conference centre announcing that music passes were all fitted with RFID tags. And that you would be scanned going to events..and that the information could be collated and used to send you approprite marketing materials. This was news to me..I could not remember seeing that anywhere in the sign up […]
Ted Cohen Interview
Deidre and Ted Originally uploaded by RachelC. The first session of the day was an interview with Ted Cohen, SVP Digital Dev & Distribution, EMI Music,(pictured here with Deidre at a party the other night). Peter Kafka from Forbes carried out the interview; I’m not sure of his background, but to me he certainly started […]
Music Festival Swag
Music Festival Swag Originally uploaded by RachelC. A different crowd…some of what you get in the Music Swag bag
Future of Web Apps – Delicious Things we’ve learnt
I’m sitting here with about 800 other people at the Carson Workshops summit on the Future of Web Apps. This will be a bad attempt to take notes – unedited or spellchcked Joshua Schachter = things we’ve learnt. Browsers – browser compatibility issues drives you nuts. Header issues cause pain. Scaling: don’t do it! Whatever […]
Davos Conference Participation
The World Economic Forum starts in Davos today. This year they’ve increased the methods of sharing and participation with sessions available on webcast and also as podcasts for the first time this year. (nice to see the little orange icon. They also have a blog, which is open to contributions from all: Every participant of […]