2008 SXSW Interactive Festival

Start planning now for next year's SXSW Interactive Festival. The fun starts Friday, March 7 and continues through Tuesday, March 11. Registration for next year's event will open in late summer -- stay tuned to this website for details. Otherwise, please feel free to e-mail us with your questions, suggestions or brainstorms about the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival.

d.Construct 2007

Occurring in Brighton, England, d.Construct 2007 is a different sort of conference for people building and designing the latest generation of web apps. Featuring some of the world's leading web experts, the conference is designed to inspire new ideas and new possibilities. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, July 10 -- register early, before the event sells out.

Web Awards Accepted

Entries for the 2008 SXSW Web Awards will be accepted beginning Friday, September 7. Stay tuned to this website for complete details on how your fabulous new web creation can be part of next year's competition.

Video Games Information Session

if you love to play video games and want to learn how to make them, come to the Austin Community College Video Games Information Session at the Highland Business Center (5930 Middle Fiskville Road) in Austin. One lucky attendee to this event will win a FREE registration to the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival

BlogHer

Come to Chicago's Navy Pier for the world's largest blogging conference. Over the last three years, BlogHer has developed into one of the most influential communities by, for, and of women who blog. Themed as "A World of Difference," this year's event features numerous outstanding speakers including Elizabeth Edwards, Esther Dyson, and Amy Sedaris.

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One of the most exciting elements of the SXSW Interactive Festival is ScreenBurn, which focuses on the newest developments in the world of video games. But if you can't wait until March to get the information you crave, then come to the Austin Community College Video Games Information Session at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, August 1. This session occurs at the Highland Business Center (5930 Middle Fiskville Road) in Austin. Need even more incentive to come to this event? If you attend this event, you can enter your name in a drawing to win a FREE registration to the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival. Also, click here to learn more about the High Technology Institute at the Austin Community College.

The Dewey Winburne Community Service Award commemorates the noble vision of SXSW Interactive Festival co-founder Dewey Winburne. As such, this trophy pays tribute to the innovators who are using community technology to help level the playing field between the haves and the have nots. For 2008, the boundaries of the prize are being extended to include all of the Lone Star State. If you know of someone living in Texas who uses new media technology in a hands-on fashion to improve the lives of society's less fortunate, then we want to hear about this person. The ten finalists for the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award will be recognized during a special ceremony at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival. These finalists will also be part of the increased community technology programming planned for next spring's event.

The annual BlogHer Conference runs today through Sunday at the Navy Pier in Chicago. Congrats to Elisa Camahort, Jory Des Jardins, Lisa Stone and all the other great folks who have worked so hard to put together another incredible event. Moreover, kudos to all the women on the web who have helped make personal publishing such a passionate endeavor. Finally, if you are attending BlogHer 2007, be sure to introduce yourself to SXSW Interactive Festival representatives Megan Adams and Kathryn Lasater.

SXSWcliick is the year-rouund initiative designed to showcase short-form video on the web and mobile devices. Have you voted yet for your favorite of the fifteen finalist for this year's event? Hurry, hurry, hurry -- the polls for the Popularity Contest are only open through 11:59 pm CST on Friday night, July 27. SXSWclick is sponsored by Cellfish. Media sponsors for the event include The Austin Chronicle, MySpace Film, indieWIRE, INDIEFLAVOR, The Hollywood Reporter, Rotten Tomatos, and Gawker Media. Also, the winner of this year's Grand Jury Prize receives a MacPro Workstation as well as an Apple Cinema display, all courtesy of iThentic.

ScreenBurn is the new element of the SXSW Interactive Festival geared towards the most current developments in the world of video games. Check this site frequently to keep up with the latest developments in this fast-moving industry. And If you like intriguing game-related content, then click to the SXSW Interactive Podcast Page. Amongst recent additions to this page is an audio recording of the "Game Perverts: A Robot, a DS and a Dot Matrix Printer Menage a Trois" panel from ScreenBurn 2007. Got to love the three-way gaming action.

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