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The obligatory pre-MIX post

By Nick Harewood | March 12, 2010

Tomorrow morning at 5.30 AM, I begin the now annual trek from Birmingham, UK to Las Vegas, Nevada for Microsoft’s MIX conference, now in its 5th year. They describe it as being…
… for designers and developers who build innovative consumer web sites. Attendees are coders, strategists, information architects, visual designers, UX professionals and digital marketers. [...]

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BETT 2010 in review

By Nick Harewood | January 17, 2010

I travelled back from London yesterday after a great couple of days at the BETT show.  Last year was the first time we’d really shown off any of our applications, demonstrating our Silverlight and SharePoint based VLE, but this year we were launching our new brand OPENHIVE and releasing our full suite of products to [...]

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The future of Silverlight and HTML5 ?

By Nick Harewood | October 19, 2009

After speaking at Saturday’s Multipack event and catching Bruce Lawson’s HTML 5 talk for the second time in a couple of weeks, I had some time to ponder on my walk home through the city.
By the time HTML 5 is prevalent across all major browsers, say maybe up to two years away (and I suspect [...]

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CrowdSourcing - Fishing for Complimentary Work?

By Nick Harewood | March 28, 2009

I received this email from a good friend and former colleague yesterday; a very experienced senior web designer who’s been away travelling for the last 8 months or so.
My old boss sent me this as way to get working again when I get back but it looks a bit like you do loads of graft [...]

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