SXSW Interactive 2007 - March 9-13, Austin, Texas

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2007 Interactive Panels Schedule

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by Date: Fri, Mar 9th   Sat, Mar 10th   Sun, Mar 11th   Mon, Mar 12th   Tue, Mar 13th   (all)
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Friday, March 9th

3:30 pm •  The Real Story Behind Snakes on a Plane

5:00 pm •  How to Rawk SXSW

5:00 pm •  Your Video Blog Can Save the World

Saturday, March 10th

10:00 am •  A Decade of Style

10:00 am •  Better than 1,000 Words: Video on the Web

10:00 am •  Emerging Social and Technology Trends

10:00 am •  Online Publishers & Ad Networks

10:00 am •  Terraforming the Internet: When 3D Models Meet Business Models

10:00 am •  Why XSLT is Sexy

10:00 am •  World Domination Via Collaboration

10:00 am •  Writing, Better

11:30 am •  After the Brief: A Field Guide to Design Inspiration

11:30 am •  ARG! The Attack of the Alternate Reality Games

11:30 am •  Bridging the Online Cultural Divide

11:30 am •  How to Bluff Your Way in Web 2.0

11:30 am •  New Dogs, New Tricks: New Media Goes to the Movies

11:30 am •  The Influence of Art in Design

11:30 am •  Turning Projects Into Revenue Generating Businesses

11:30 am •  Under 18: Blogs, Wikis and Online Social Networks for Youth

11:30 am •  Getting to Consistency: Don't Make Your Users Think

2:00 pm •  Kathy Sierra Opening Remarks

2:00 pm •  Outta Control: Does Education Matter Anymore?

2:00 pm •  Tag. You're It

2:00 pm •  Web App Autopsy

2:00 pm •  Everything's Gone Douglas Coupland

2:00 pm •  Games + Entertainment Brands: Five Top Trends In 2007

3:30 pm •  Commercialization of Wikis: Open Community That Pays the Bills

3:30 pm •  From Blog to Book

3:30 pm •  Grids Are Good and How to Design with Them

3:30 pm •  Stop Designing Products

3:30 pm •  The Inside Scoop: Getting a Job in the Game Industry

3:30 pm •  TV: The Next Generation

3:30 pm •  Unleashing CSS: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Internet Explorer 7

3:30 pm •  Your Web Application as a Text Adventure

4:05 pm •  Beautiful Algorithms: Design from Nature and Mathematics

4:05 pm •  Ruining the User Experience: When JavaScript and Ajax Go Bad

4:05 pm •  Web 2.0 / 3.0 ArtsEntrepreneurship.com: Make Your Passion Your Profession

4:05 pm •  Web Hacks: Good or Evil (or: Welcome to Web 2.666)

4:05 pm •  Web Vector Graphics: Myth or Reality

4:05 pm •  When Your Partner Is Your Partner: When Home & Office Collide

5:00 pm •  Boss Lady

5:00 pm •  From Tags to Riches: Life After Code

5:00 pm •  Ghost in the Machine: Spirituality Online

5:00 pm •  High Class and Low Class Web Design

5:00 pm •  Mapping: Where the F#*% Are We Now?

5:00 pm •  Pay Up! Should Publishers Choose the Porn Path?

5:00 pm •  Production Companies 2.0: Taking Online Video to the Next Level

5:00 pm •  Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: The Impact on Scientific Publishing

Sunday, March 11th

10:00 am •  Accessibility Wars: A Report From the Trenches

10:00 am •  Designing for Convergent Devices

10:00 am •  Every Breath You Take: Identity, Attention, Presence and Reputation

10:00 am •  Community Ecology: Finding Balance When Working with Fan Groups

10:00 am •  Game Perverts: A Robot, a DS and a Dot Matrix Printer Menage a Trois

10:00 am •  Long Talks on the Short Form

10:00 am •  Parent Bloggers 2.0: Can 'Diaper Diarist' Make Real Dollars?

10:00 am •  Using RSS for Marketing

10:00 am •  Why We Should Ignore Users

11:30 am •  Avatar-Based Marketing in Synthetic Worlds

11:30 am •  Blogging Where Speech Isn't Free

11:30 am •  Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic

11:30 am •  Living in a Spatial Reality

11:30 am •  Lonelygirl15 Case Study

11:30 am •  Making Your Short Attention-Span Pay Big Dividends

11:30 am •  Non-Developers to Open Source Acolytes: Tell Me Why I Care

11:30 am •  Serious Games: Can Learning Be Hard Fun?

2:00 pm •  Digital Distribution: The Way of the Future for Gaming

2:00 pm •  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Mobile Web...but Were Afraid to Ask

2:00 pm •  I Can't Believe You Sent That: E-mail Disasters, Large and Small and How to Avoid Them

2:00 pm •  Keynote Conversation: Limor Fried / Phil Torrone

2:00 pm •  Perspectives on Designing for Global Audiences

3:30 pm •  Accessified! Practical Accessibility Fixes Any Web Developer Can Use

3:30 pm •  AJAX or Flash: What's Right for You?

3:30 pm •  Building an Online Fan Base

3:30 pm •  Deadlines, Clients and Cashflow: The Business Side of Web Design

3:30 pm •  Learning Interaction Design From Las Vegas

3:30 pm •  Online Advertising: Is it Worth It?

3:30 pm •  Spam of All Kinds: Dealing with Online Abuse

3:30 pm •  Virtual Worlds and Virtual Humans: NPCs and Avatars

4:05 pm •  Best Practices for Teaching Web Design

4:05 pm •  Fictional Bloggers

4:05 pm •  Moving Large Corporations Towards Accessibility

4:05 pm •  Ten Ways to Run a Startup Like Genghis Khan

4:05 pm •  The Future of JavaScript

4:05 pm •  ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille

5:00 pm •  Create a Campaign in an Hour

5:00 pm •  Distribution 2.0

5:00 pm •  How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Mashup Culture

5:00 pm •  "I'm Good, Really!": Self-Marketing for the Freelance Web Geek

5:00 pm •  On the Edge of Independent User-Creation in Gamespace

5:00 pm •  People-Powered Products

5:00 pm •  Sex and Computational Technology

5:00 pm •  The Rise of the Blogebrity

5:00 pm •  Uniting the Holy Trinity of Web Design

Monday, March 12th

10:00 am •  Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

10:00 am •  Barenaked App: The Figures Behind the Top Web Apps

10:00 am •  Get Unstuck: Moving From 1.0 to 2.0

10:00 am •  Getting Girls Into The Game: Designing and Marketing Games for Female Players

10:00 am •  Revisiting Commercial Open Source Business Models

10:00 am •  The Future of DVD's

10:00 am •  User Generated Content and Original Editorial: Friend or Foe

10:00 am •  Web 2.0 to Web 3D

10:00 am •  The 4-Hour Workweek: Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World

11:30 am •  American Cancer Society: Applying Disruptive Technology for the Nonprofit Sector

11:30 am •  Being a Coppola in the "Brookers" Era

11:30 am •  Convergence Culture: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins

11:30 am •  Gamer's Games: Microcontent and User Creation

11:30 am •  Mobile Application Design Challenges and Tips

11:30 am •  Scaling Your Community

11:30 am •  The Digital Ethnorati

11:30 am •  The Future of the Online Magazine

2:00 pm •  Dan Rather Keynote Interview

2:00 pm •  MobileActive: Mobilizing The Masses With Mobile Technology

2:00 pm •  The Growth and Evolution of Microformats

2:00 pm •  When Does User-Generated Video Become Independent Filmmaking?

2:00 pm •  Writing for the Next Generation of Games

3:30 pm •  Bootstrap Your Startup!

3:30 pm •  Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery

3:30 pm •  Journalism in the Blogosphere: A Legal Guide to Internet "Press"

3:30 pm •  Rails and AJAX: Building Enterprise-Class Web Applications

3:30 pm •  Tech Tools for Film Artists

3:30 pm •  Warren Spector Presentation: The Future of Storytelling

3:30 pm •  When Communities Attack

3:30 pm •  Why Marketers Need To Work With People Media

4:05 pm •  Alternadad Live!

4:05 pm •  Design Patterns: Defining and Sharing Web Interface Design Languages

4:05 pm •  Javascript: The Big Picture

4:05 pm •  The Invisible Blogosphere

4:05 pm •  Virtual Teaming: Collaborating Across Time and Space

5:00 pm •  Do You Blog on the First Date?

5:00 pm •  How to Create A Kickass In-House Design Team

5:00 pm •  NPO 2.0: "Widgets for Good" Challenge

5:00 pm •  Open Content, Remix Culture and the Sharing Economy: Rights, Ownership and Getting Paid

5:00 pm •  Online Games: Beyond Play and Fantasy with Joi Ito and Justin Hall

5:00 pm •  The Death of the Desktop

5:00 pm •  WaSP Annual Meeting: Takin' it to the Street

5:00 pm •  What Does the Future Hold for Video on the Internet

5:00 pm •  Advergames: Making Your Brand More Fun

Tuesday, March 13th

10:00 am •  Browser Wars Retrospective: Past, Present and Future Battlefields

10:00 am •  Customer Service is the New Marketing

10:00 am •  Finding the Next Billion Internet Users

10:00 am •  Open Knowledge vs. Controlled Knowledge

10:00 am •  Pervasive Electronic Games

10:00 am •  Show Me The Money! Making Money From Independent Video Content?

10:00 am •  The Future of the Book: Dead or Alive?

10:00 am •  Web Typography Sucks

10:00 am •  How to Make Your Ideas Stick

11:30 am •  12 Values Shaping Technology's Future

11:30 am •  After Bust 2.0: Ten Years Later, Where Will We Be?

11:30 am •  Austin, Massively Multiplayer Game Development Capital of the West?

11:30 am •  Blogging about Film

11:30 am •  Design Aesthetic of the Indie Developer

11:30 am •  Mystery Science Web 3000: Combinatorial Media as Self-Expression

11:30 am •  Preserving our Digital Legacy and the Individual Collector

11:30 am •  The Future of Television: Super-Modality

2:00 pm •  How to Easily Attract Your IDEAL Clients

2:00 pm •  Music From the Masses: The Remix Revolution

2:00 pm •  Net Politics: The Internet Can Make You President

2:00 pm •  There's no Such Thing as the Mobile Web (Or Is There?)

2:00 pm •  Will Wright Keynote Speech

3:30 pm •  $100 Internet Businesses

3:30 pm •  Girl Video Gamers Teach You the Facts About Successful Marketing

3:30 pm •  The Imago Effect: Avatar Psychology

3:30 pm •  How to Make Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Usability Work Together

3:30 pm •  Instructional Online Video - The Next Big Thing

3:30 pm •  The Technologist Agenda: Political Activism for Geeks

3:30 pm •  The Truth About Mobile & The Future of Personal Devices

3:30 pm •  Worldchanging 2.0

4:05 pm •  Can Social Networking Build Your Brand?

4:05 pm •  Data Shrapnel

4:05 pm •  Five Tips to Make Your Lame Podcast Listenable

4:05 pm •  Teaching in the New Vernacular

4:05 pm •  The New Business of Collectivism

5:00 pm •  Bruce Sterling's SXSW Rant

5:00 pm •  Jocks and Jokes: The Deadspin Phenomenon

5:00 pm •  The Global Microbrand: Are Blogs, Suits and Wine the New Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll?

5:00 pm •  Mobile Phones & the Future of Video Games

5:00 pm •  The Ultimate Music Recommendation Smackdown

5:00 pm •  Video Mashups: Please Rolling Stones Don't Sue Us