I'm here in sunny Las Vegas attending the Mix conference. Last night I was at the mashup social hour (mashups + free martinis = goodness), and am looking forward to tonight's Mashup After Hours.  This is an event / contest with some great prizes for folks to show off your mashup skills (or if just starting out, it's a good excuse to dive in and build a mashup). The top prize is a new Xbox360 Elite, which is the current definition of the word sweet - black case, HDMI, and a 120 gig drive.

I'll be on hand, as will a number of team members from both the MS Live APIs, some of the other Microsoft teams, as well as from some non-MS folk.  I was talking with people from StrikeIron (http://www.strikeiron.com) and infragstics (http://www.infragistics.com), and weather bug (http://www.weatherbug.com), and they've got technical folks in town who'll be stopping by as well.  If you're in town and would like to get started, it all starts at 8 tonight and runs to 2am.

Just like I did for the Web20 conference earlier in the month, I've made a special landing page that's being used at the event, http://www.mashupguy.com/mix.  Right now the site has links to details on APIs, content, videos, etc.

Once we hit the 8 oclock hour, that page will change to include registration and gallery info.