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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
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
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
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
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