MIX Day Two Keynote Announcements

Update (11:10am):

Interesting talk from Bill Buxton about the concept of Natural User Interface to wrap up the keynote.  Looking forward to today’s sessions.

Update (10:30am):

Project codename “Houston” announced to manage SQL Azure databases directly in the browser.  Also, SQL Azure databases are now able to expose data automatically by simply clicking a checkbox to enable OData.

Update (10:25am):

Lots of news around OData…  Check out all of the details at http://www.odata.org/.

Update (10:10am):

Netflix has made an oData API available at http://odata.netflix.com/Catalog/

Update (9:55am):

Microsoft is contributing to jQuery development.

Update (9:35am):

HTML5 Video!  HD, opacity, hardware acceleration.

Update (9:30am):

Dean Hachamovitch just announced the IE9 Platform Preview and went through some amazing demos that left other browsers in the dust.  HTML5, SVG, GPU leverage…

Update (8:50am):

Minutes away…

8:15am:

Day one for MIX is over and now everyone is gearing up for today’s keynote.  IE9 is sure to be a hot topic with the biggest question being, “When do we get a beta?”  I’ll be updating this post with the answer to that question, along with any other major announcements, throughout the keynote.

Lots of great sessions today…  personally I’m checking out What’s New in Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2, Building Facebook Apps with Microsoft .NET and Deploying to Windows Azure, and either The Elephant in the Room or High-Performance Best Practices for Web Sites.  There are several others I’d like to see as well, but I guess I’ll have to check those out after the fact on the MIX site.

Don’t forget, even if you’re not here you can watch the MIX Day Two Keynote live.