Nerd Stalker

Liberty Madison sat down with our Greg Viloria (aka SocialGreg) and Myles Weissleder to get some comments and thoughts on the New Tech Tour which started in San Diego, peaked in Salt Lake City and concluded in the city of sin - Las Vegas.

We tagged along with the New Tech Tour last week through San Diego, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Our Greg Viloria aka SocialGreg gives his impressions of each of the cities tech scenes.

(3mins) Nerd Stalker interviews Jon Harris, Senior Product Manger of Microsoft Expression Blend & Design at MIX09. Jon's background is in design; he worked at Macromedia before joining Microsoft. Jon sheds some light on to the new Blend feature Sketchflow, which we are all so excited to try, as well as the future of the products. You can also watch at YouTube , MySpace , Metacafe , Blip.tv and Veoh

I was a few rows in front of them, very cool of Ballmer to be a sport.

Hard Rock Cafe Memorabilia Site with Deep Zoom

So i'm at the Microsoft Mix conference here in Vegas and there is quite a buzz in the air here. Started with a great band that sounded like a mesh between oingo boingo and devotchka. Then Rey Ozzie took the stage to deliver the new path of microsoft, in short it's that for now there is going to be a connection between web and client apps as one is not dominating the other. Then he hyped Silverlight, which is squarely aimed at Flash and Flash video, looked nice but it's beta till the summer 1.0 release. They mentioned something called Photosynth for some uber powerful online photo zooming. Scott Guthrie then took over and mentioned Silverlight has a streaming option, a cross platform .net framework (yes runs on mac), demo's available for download starting today, silverlight.live.com free vid hosting/streaming, multi browser support, and support for virtually all programming languages. They are seeing a 300-1000% speed increase over using javascript. They showed demos run...