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Wondering what Microsoft is showing off at Mix 06 in Vegas this week?

Thanks to a friend at Microsoft you can watch it live:

Watch Mix '06 Video Stream (Windows Media)

Not seeing anything? Check the schedule for the next session.

My friend strongly recommend tuning in at around 11:30 PST (2:30 EST) for an unexpected and very cool demonstration from Yahoo.

If you miss the live video stream then check out the daily re-caps from the Mix 06 blog.

Who says all the cool new web stuff has to happen in the San Francisco area? Tomorrow evening I'll be attending DC 2.0, our own local unconference on the next generation web.

Some local companies that will be represented:

• CollectiveX
• Near-Time
• Blogdigger
• SMBLive
• ZiWiki

Time and place:

Mar. 15, 2006
7 to 10 PM

Mintz Levin
12010 Sunset Hills Rd
Reston, Virginia 20190
Google Map

There's still time to register.

Microsoft's new map service called MSN Virtual Earth looks pretty cool:

Click for a larger image:

SimCity view!

It's not available until this summer, but there's a great 30 minute (!) video of the dev team showing off the new features.

If you click on a photo caption my site brings you to photo album and jumps you to the image for that caption, scrolling the page to the right image if necessary. (Example)

The disappointing problem is that you can't see that particular image until Internet Explorer or Firefox download all images on the page that happen to be in the HTML before that image. This happens even though all of the images before the image you are trying to look at are off the screen. This means that you have to sit there and wait for all preceding images to load before you get to see the one right on your screen.

The fix seems simple: IE and Firefox should load images that are viewable to the user first, and then load off-screen images.

I can probably fix this via some fancy JavaScript, but it seems like more work than should be necessary.