What is MIX08?

MIX08 is organized by Microsoft every year. It consits from a lot of events, tech presentations, new releases etc.

There a lot video-tutorials on there Open Space website.

I liked Silverlight presentations. Looks cool.

Good news from google Google data APIs team.

 "Ever wanted to get in on this online video craze? Now's a good time! The YouTube Data API now supports authentication for YouTube users, upload, and write. On top of that, the world just got a little bit smaller -- you can access our internationalized standard feeds through the API."

For more info go to youtube api blog.

I was getting an error while working on an ecommerce website. So I tried to search about the following error message:

"system.configuration.System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyWrongTypeException"

What a strange thing  google did not return any result while yahoo did return  549 results!

FaceBook=Social Networking.

A social network service focuses on the building and verifying of online social networks for communities of people who share interests and activities.

Yesterday, I've created an account on facebook.

They have an Ad Manager application(on the left side of first page). I have created an ad:

I have selected one day period, 5$/day (minimum),

0.10$ per 1000 impresions

and 0.03$ per click.

but they enabled my ad after I changed my bid from 0.10$ to 0.16$ as they sugested.

So after 5 hours of advertising my ad has over 12 000 impresions , cost is over 1.5$ and clicks - only 3

PS: I have changed my bid from 0.16$ to 0.10$ per 1000 impresions and it works. (updates are visible in 15 minutes)

I discovered today a new project from Microsoft. Its name is Popfly. What is Popfly - from wikipedia "website that allows user to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Microsoft Silverlight rich internet applications runtime and the set of online tools provided.".

 You don't need to know programming in order to create such web applications. You can view applications created by other users and you could share your popfly applications.

You could integrate popfly in visual studio if you want to create more complex apps using popfly explorer.

So it took me about 10 minutes to create a silverlight application online that searches on live.com for victorantos images and then displays them in a photoshow control.

Really cool.