What started off as an end-of-year staff meeting evolved into a week-long string of educational sessions we have come to call ‘MightyCon.’

Our first annual MightyCon kicked off this week. The concept behind MightyCon was to use our own internal resources to knowledge share and to create stronger, more agile team members throughout each department. Mightycon 2011 featured guest speakers Pamela Meyer, Cesar Torres, Tai Palmgren and Tim Frick delivering insights and nuanced views on industry best practices.

Figuring out what’s best for your business in the ever-changing world of mobile content may mean making some smart decisions around whether your content should be delivered via a thick or thin client.

The thickness of a client refers to how much processing is done and how much data is stored on the client device versus the servers it interacts with. The more data and processing done, the thicker the client becomes. For example, take two different calendar applications.

Recently, Google has announced that it will withdraw support for the H.264 video codec in lieu of its newly acquired On2 technology, which supports the WebM VP8 and Ogg Theora codecs. What does this mean for your future web video experience?

While this does sound like alien language, our crew is going to break down the logistics and discuss if Google Chrome is essentially promoting or undermining the open web. Read on and then decide for yourself.

The tools, tricks and resources that served us best this past year.

Every year, new gadgets are released, software is updated, new social networks try to woo you. Now that the holiday chaos has settled and we’re heading into a productive new year, we wanted to take toll of what we really used last year—and loved so much that we’re still using this year. We asked around the Mightybytes office and found that the best things aren’t necessarily the newest or the flashiest, but the ones that are clean, lean, and solve real problems.