Afternoon Mix day 1 Update
I just finsihed a session on monetizing sites with the Virtual Earth API. It was pretty good, I got to see how some companies like TripHub.com and Redfin.com have integrated the map API into their sites to provide a much richer user expereince. I went to this session in particular because I want to upgrade my www.FindMyGolfCourse.com mapping engine as well as many other aspects. I have been looking iinto the API versus Google's and I like it a lot. So hopefully I will be upgrading the entire site very, very soon.
I am now waiting on a Silverlight session, Building Rich Web Experience with Silverlight and Expression. Everyone in attendance got a full Expression Suite, Sweet! I am really seeing the future of the web here today and I am stoked. I may have to stay awake for months just do everything running through my head.
On the way over I ran into Scott Hanselman and grabed a Hagen Dazs bar. Of course just about everyone is familir with Scott from www.Hanselminutes.com and www.computerzen.com. I was pretty excited. I will keep you up to date as I run into the cool people like Scott. :>