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    SXSW 2008: Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together

    Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
    Room A
    Tuesday, March 11th
    3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

    The all-knowledgable webmaster is long gone, replaced by groups of specialists. When they work well together awesome things happen. When they don’t the results are ugly, insecure, inaccessible and slow, assuming they launch at all. What’s the magic that […]


    SXSW 2008: Jane McGonigal Keynote

    Tuesday Keynote: Jane McGonigal
    Room A
    Tuesday, March 11th
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
     Jane McGonigal   Creative Dir,   Avant Game 
    Jane McGonigal
    Start with a video trailer of The Lost Ring ARG.
    “Please, I need your help - I can’t do this alone”
    [the standard call to action of an ARG these days]
    So I wanted to start with that […]


    SXSW: The Web That Wasn’t

    The Web That Wasn’t
    Room 19AB
    Monday, March 10th
    11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Alex Wright Information Architect, The New York Times
    AW: Gonna talk about a lot of early precursors to the web, different versions of hypertext, early thining that went on around how networked information systems. It’s itneresting - not just histrorically, but also […]


    SXSW 2008: From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design

    From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design
    Room B
    Sunday, March 9th
    11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    Dan Rubin  Black Seagull/Sidebar Creative
    Eris Stassi   Interaction Designer,   Apple
    Didier Hilhorst   Interaction Designer,   IDEO
    [Best slides so far and typography]
    ES: Introduction - this icon was put together by someone on my team. So you have an attachment […]


    SXSW 2008: Sunday, March 9 Picks

    Here’s a quick pick list of the panels that look interesting today:
    10am panels:

    Everyone’s A Design Critic at Room A, Level 1 with Jason Santa Maria and Rob Weychert
    Scope Creep and Other Villains at Room 6, Level 3 with James Archer
    Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World at Room B, Level 1 with James Box and […]


    SXSW 2008: What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones

    What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones
    John Davison Pres, What They Like
    Anastasia Goodstein Publisher, Ypulse
    Saturday, 10am, March 8 2008, Room 9, Level 3
    AG: [short intro about what ypulse.com does] Really excited to be here this morning, we have the experts - the teens here today, […]


    SXSW 2008: Swag Awards

     The swag this year really hasn’t been good at all: most of what came in the Interactive and Film bags has gone straight in the recycling bin and, horror of horrors, there aren’t even any good stickers. Or pens.
    O’Reilly win the Best Swag award though, thanks to this wonderful thing:

    How great is that? Total win.