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Studio SX Interview: Tim Disney

SXSW — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:49:22 -0500

Check out this interview with 'American Violet' Director Tim Disney interviewed by Elvis Mitchell with NPR.

You can catch this and other highlights from the SXSW 2009 at the SXSW YouTube Channel.

How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics

SXSW — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:18:03 -0500

Geared particularly to first-time attendees to SXSW Interactive, this panel focuses on how registrants can leverage all the different elements of the event to achieve your personal and professional goals.

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Social Engineering: Scam Your Way Into Anything or From Anybody

SXSW — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:23:08 -0500

This session will give you all insider tips to use social engineering, the art of manipulating people into divulging information, to make friends and influence people. The panel will present tricks on how to scam your way into ANYTHING, whether it's a business meeting or a hot-ticket event.

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Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:32:09 -0500

Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design's print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.

Dan Willis, Sapient

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GameChangers - Improvisation for Business in the Networked World

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:08:16 -0500

As we move from the rigid, hierarchical organizations of the Industrial Age to the fluid, non-linear models of the Networked World, GameChangers have never been more important or essential. Whenever teamwork, creativity, flexibility and problem-solving skills are necessary for success, these players step up. They develop relationships that are good for business. They pay careful attention to details and at the same time have expansive worldviews. They are quick-on-their-feet, unflappable and in tune with their teammates, stakeholders and the marketplace. They are the top performers in any organization the best managers, the most resourceful employees, the culture-shapers. They play the game and make things happen. In short, GameChangers are masters of improvisation in business. Turn yourself and your brand into a GameChanger. All it takes is improvisation!

Mike Bonifer, GameChangers LLC

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Oooh, That's Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design)

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:19:42 -0500

Find inspiration in the ridiculous. See technological quirks as opportunities. Try something previously unheard of with your site design. Laugh in the face of convention. Use and abuse CSS in ways never before imagined. Get away with it. And if it doesn't work, try something else instead.

Paul Annett, Clearleft Ltd

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The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:31:00 -0500

What do the Adobe Flex and ActionScript compilers; the award-winning 3D Flash library, Papervision3D; the native data format for Flash, SWX; and the excellent Flash streaming and interactive server, Red5 have in common? They're all open source. And they're all introduced in this book by the project leads themselves.Contrary to its popular perception as a closed platform, the Flash Platform has an active and thriving grassroots open source community and a plethora of open source projects. In this session, Aral Balkan, founder of OSFlash.org and creator of SWX, will give you an overview of what's possible with open source Flash with examples from the book.

Aral Balkan, Naklab

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The Ecosystem of News

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:44:42 -0500

It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is whether we're going to spend our time grieving over the loss, or whether we're going to use this moment as an opportunity to invent something even better. We're inevitably moving from the "paper of record" model to a something more distributed, a news ecosystem, but that doesn't mean we can't consciously define the shape of that system. So let's figure out what values we want to preserve from the older newspaper paradigm, and what values we want to improve upon -- and then let's go build it!

Steven Johnson, outside.in

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Try Making Yourself More Interesting

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:57:36 -0500

There are no cheat codes for community. No Charles Atlas shortcuts to make your pet project the one to rule them all. Want people to think you're awesome? Be awesome. This panel promises a bullshit-free look at how you might tune out the jibber jabber, tune in to those who matter, put your head down and make your online service a little bit more epic each day. We'll dissect Bike Hugger, Photojojo, Metafilter, and other examples of Web charm for what *you* can do. Today, and tomorrow. And the day after. Which is how you will become what you want to be.

DL Byron, Bike Hugger

Amit Gupta, Photojojo

Brian Oberkirch, Small Good Thing

Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic

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Studio SX Interview: Joe Swanberg

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:59:54 -0500

Check out this interview with Joe Swanberg Director of Alexander the Last, interviewed by panelist Matt Dentler.

You can catch this and other highlights from the SXSW 2009 at the SXSW YouTube Channel.

Funologists Live & In Person: Guerilla Game Research

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:07:08 -0500

If you work at a game company, research means understanding play, not analyzing boring spreadsheets. Meet Big Fish Games and Pogo funologists and learn how listening and watching gamers transforms product and web design. We share different innovative guerilla (discount) and traditional research methods to inspire user-centered design.

Moderator: Laura Porto Stockwell, Publicis in the West

Julie Ratner, Big Fish Games

Erica Firment, Second Life

Tracy Fullerton, USC Interactive Media

Jason Schklar, Initial Experience Consulting

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Games By the People, For the People

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:18:17 -0500

We are on the precipice of a new age in independent gaming, with more options than ever before for developers at every level to bring their dreams to life and share them with a public that is ravenous for new and innovative ideas. Stop focusing on all of the challenges that exist for indie developers in the world of big budget sequels, and explore the enormous user-generated content opportunities available to anyone interested in game design. Whether your goal is to make millions, or just get your ideas out into the world, this panel has something for you.

Gareth Davis, Facebook Inc

Steve Demeter, demiforce.com

Boyd Multerer, Microsoft

Scott Steinberg, DigitalTrends.com

Lee Uniacke, Kongregate

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Roo'd

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:05:46 -0500

Learn how a first-time novelist got 12 thousand readers a month and an international book deal using the Creative Commons license, and is now using that experience to break big media's deadlock - through collaboration with the crowd.

Josh Klein, Hax Enterprises

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Plan B: Can an Ad Guy Bring Bike Sharing to America?

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:04:25 -0500

In increasingly turbulent times, it seems like more and more of us are wearing an extra hat or two in an effort to make a difference. Maybe that explains why Crispin Porter + Bogusky, one of the world's most respected advertising firms, has joined with Humana and Trek bicycles in an audacious plan to bring bike sharing to America with a new venture called B-cycle. All three companies share one common goal: positive cultural change. It's estimated that the U.S. could save 462 million gallons of gasoline a year by increasing cycling from 1% to just 1.5% of all trips. B-cycle can change the way we get around. And that can change our communities, our heath, our environment, and our future. Find out more about B-cycle and why Alex recommends we all begin sticking our noses in places where they don't belong.

Alex Bogusky, Crispin Porter + Bogusky

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The Principles of Beautiful Web Design

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:15 -0500

Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don't look nice? If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.

Jason Beaird, Cyberwoven

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SXSW Panel: The Future Of Social Networks

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:18:32 -0500

Social networks will be like air, in that they will permeate everything that we do online AND offline. We'll look at the underlying technologies that will make this possible, how it will evolve, and the business models that will support it.

Presented by Charlene Li, Thought Leader of Altimeter Group.

Career Renegade: How To Make A Great Living Doing What You Love

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:32:36 -0500

Career Renegade is 288 pages of kick-ass, real-world, seriously actionable strategies, resources and case-studies that walk you through the process of building your career around the activities, settings and people that make you come alive. Steering clear of new-age, self-help fluff, this veritable renegade roadmap dives squarely into how to turn nearly any passion into real money (often online), build a powerhouse personal brand, rally the cynics to your cause and leverage your passion, knowledge and platform to make a great living doing what you love, even in this economy.

Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade / Awake @ The Wheel

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The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life

SXSW — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:49:22 -0500

Find out who you are and achieve what you most want in life with The Vision Board. Through the exercises and inspirational success stories included in this book, you can clarify your true vision and create a personal vision board. Learn the five secrets to living the life of your dreams.

Joyce Schwarz, JCOM

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Is Privacy Dead or Just Very Confused?

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:36:16 -0500

While many assert that "privacy is dead," the complex ways in which people try to control access and visibility suggest that it's just very confused. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water, let's discuss people's understanding and experiences of privacy and find ways to 2.0-ify it.

danah boyd, Microsoft Research

Judith Donath, MIT Media Laboratory

Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia

Alice Marwick, New York University

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Even Faster Web Sites

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:43:04 -0500

Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow, the Firebug extension. Now working at Google, Steve discusses the next set of best practices he's developed, including advanced techniques for loading JavaScript, where not to place inline scripts, and the importance of using multiple domains to improve web performance.

Steve Souders, Google

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Transatlantic Troubleshooting: Getting into Europe's New Media Market

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:55:35 -0500

The European market with over 500 million citizens is an enormous single market, with the UK providing a natural first-step for US companies looking to expand East-wards. After all, we share (pretty much) the same language. Challenging economic times mean the search for lucrative new markets is more important than ever. Quiz the panel and discover what it's like to do business in the UK and Europe, how to find partners, and stay gaffe-free. Get the skinny on the fast-moving tech, mobile and games scene. This panel is sponsored by Chinwag.

Moderator: Aleks Krotoski, Chinwag / UKTI

Mike Butcher, TechCrunch

Mike Teasdale, Chinwag / Harvest Digital

Stewart Townsend, Sun Microsystems

Aleks Krotoski, Chinwag / UKTI

Nigel Eccles, Hubdub.com

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From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:46:53 -0500

The web has always attracted mavericks and entrepreneurs, and a rocky economy makes the freelance life more desirable (or at least more inevitable) than ever. So what happens when your freelance business starts to grow? How big can you get without getting bad? How can freelancers and small teams compete with traditional agencies? Hip freelancers and cool agency heads will answer questions, compare experiences, and tell their stories.

Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog Studios

Roger Black, Roger Black Studio

Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic

Whitney Hess

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Service-Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:55:36 -0500

Have you ever wondered why business books and periodicals rarely talk about technology? Business books do go so far as to credit technology with helping to make businesses work, and the business news covers technology companies, but never talks about the technology itself. Is it because publishers think that technology is just too, well, technical for a business audience? Or because they think that technology isn't a relevant or important topic for business discussions? Or, perish the thought, maybe these business publishers themselves don't discuss technology because they were the jocks back in high school, and technology has always seemed to be of interest only to the nerds.In this book, Service-Orient or Be Doomed! How Service Orientation Will Change Your Business, we take aim at all three of these positions and lay each of them finally to rest. We make the case that technology is vitally important to today's business. Dot-com bubble or not, every company those business periodicals covers technology throughout the organization. In fact, surprisingly for a couple of self-described nerds, the authors speak more about how emotions and human nature trip companies up than technology does but argue for the merging of IT and business and using Service-Oriented approaches as the territory in which to plant the flag of neutrality first. Certainly this book goes a long way toward being the manual that business and IT can use.

Ronald Schmelzer, ZapThink

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How Not To FAIL At Web Services

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:59:48 -0500

Believe it or not both Amazon and Flickr have failed miserably at Web Services. In this talk we'll take a look at their failures, show how they could be fixed, and show how to properly use REST principles to create Web Services that don't fail.

Gregg Pollack, Rails Envy

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The Seven Rules for Great Web Application Design

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:44:37 -0500

In this lively and interactive session, Robert Hoekman, Jr., the author of 'Designing the Obvious' and 'Designing the Moment', uses the audience to reveal the 7 essential design principles for achieving great application design and the psychology behind them. And he does it all without a single bullet point (gasp!).

Robert Hoekman Jr, Miskeeto LLC

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Strong Gaming Communities: Text vs. Speech

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:49:36 -0500

This panel brings together academics and game designers to fight out the future of the MMO interface. Should text continue to be the default way that people communicate in virtual worlds? Is the spoken word more natural and more laden with emotional cues, or more destructive of the magic circle?

Matthew Bellows, Vivox Inc

Amy Jo Kim, shufflebrain.com

Joe Miller, Linden Research Inc

Dmitri Williams, USC

Richard Vogel, Bioware

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Interactive Beyond the Screen: Branding in Four Dimensions

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:29:09 -0500

This talk covers the future of brand and design innovation in an increasingly fragmented world. It's not a discussion on new or emerging technologies, but rather a conversation about new and emerging mindsets.

Jamie Monberg, Hornall Anderson

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Civic Technologies and the Future of the Internet

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:33:47 -0500

Jonathan Zittrain warns how the migration to closed systems will end innovation on the Internet and facilitate unsettling new kinds of control and offers solutions for avoiding this web lockdown.

Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School / Berkman Center for Internet & Society

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IM Video Journalism

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:38:30 -0500

With video online all the rage, UK-based international award winning video journalist David Dunkley Gyimah deconstructs video journalism and posits his cinematic brand known as IMVJ. Described by Apple Pro as a one man hurricane: http://www.apple.com/uk/pro/profiles/gyimah/
Ex BBC David talks technique, workflow, and swift turnaround factual feature making.

David Dunkley Gyimah, University of Westminster

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Tips For Making Ideas Happen

SXSW — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:42:06 -0500

The Behance Team is focused on organizing and boosting productivity in the creative world. We have interviewed hundreds of the most productive creative people and teams that are actually able to MAKE IDEAS HAPPPEN. We now want to share the "tips" and insights from our research with creative and entrepreneurial people that want to make ideas happen.

Scott Belsky, Behance

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