SXSW Interactive
March 13-17, 2009
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!
2008 Recap: Collecting Your SXSW Interactive Experiences
Check out the online event recap page with day-by-day summaries of keynotes, panels, parties and other fun activities. Got a SXSW-related link that you’d like to see posted on this page? The more the merrier! Send us the link and we will add it to this community archive.
Hear the Brightest Minds in Emerging Technology with SXSW Interactive Podcasts
Quench your thirst for all things SXSW Interactive by checking out the SXSW Podcast Page, which contains tons and tons of FREE audio content. Then make sure you are subscribed to our SXSW Podcast RSS Feed.
2008 Program: Complete List of Panels and Speakers Announced
The SXSW Interactive Festival features forward-thinking new media experts from across the United States and around the world. The bulk of programing for the 2008 has been posted online. Be sure to check out the Panels Schedule, as well as two new features for this year's event; Book Readings and Core Conversations. About 75% of programing for 2008 came via ideas from the online community, as generated by the SXSW Panel Picker.
Pictured above: March 9 keynote speaker Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. Other keynotes for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival include Frank Warren (March 10) and Jane McGonigal (March 11). Opening Remarks (March 8) will be delivered by Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson.
SXSW Interactive and Microsoft Silverlight Mash It Up for 2008
Catch up with all things SXSW Interactive, even share your own South by video experiences with pulse.sxsw.com!
SXSW Interactive, Microsoft and frog design have partnered to create a rich, interactive online community portal for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival. Powered by Microsoft Silverlight technology, the pulse.sxsw.com gives users a fun and engaging platform for information and media exchange.
pulse.sxsw.com features video clips from 2008 SXSW Interactive keynotes and discussion panels, as well as user-generated videos, images, and social networking content. At the same time, aggregators comb the Internet for relevant information, keeping the site as dynamic as the event it celebrates.
Click here for additional information on Silverlight technology and supported browsers.
Live Chat About Interactive Panel Sessions with meebo
Meebo is a website for instant messaging and synchronous social activity. As the official live chat at SXSW Interactive, meebo allows you to discuss and interact real-time with other attendees at any panel during the festival. Visit www.meebo.com/sxsw to get your feet wet and dive full-force into the platform that is the next phase of instant messaging.
SXSW 101: Watch this Video and Know Where to Go
Where do I go to get my SXSW Interactive badge? How do I find all the panels I want to see? OH NO! I don’t have the slightest idea where to get my Program Book!! If thoughts like these haunt your dreams, send a chill down your spine and turn your stomach upside-down – or if you just want a sneak peek at the Austin Convention Center before the action starts on Friday, then get your own personal video tour of the new room layout for 2008. Whether you are a grizzled veteran of SXSW or this is your first time to the event, watching this video will help minimize onsite confusion.
Special thanks to the great folks at SUPER!ALRIGHT! for helping produce this content.
The Interactive Hub: Be Part of the SXSW Online Community
Event attendees (past, present and future) have a place to talk all things SXSW on the Interactive Hub. This community blog covers whatever you want to cover, from panels to Austin restaurants to ride shares to job openings to SXSW evening events. Posting is easy. Just create a user account, then you are off to the races! Got questions on how this all works? Contact us with any questions or concerns.
Upcoming Events
Below are events of interest to the SXSW crowd, many featuring former and current SXSW speakers:
March 13-17, 2009
2009 SXSW Interactive Festival
It is never too early to start planning for next spring! The 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival runs Friday, March 13 through Tuesday, March 17. Stay tuned to this website for complete details.
September 1
Web Awards Entry Process Opens
The SXSW Web Awards showcase the hottest new trends in the new media industry. Entries for the 2009 competition will be accepted beginning Monday, September 1. Stay tuned to the Web Awards page for complete information.
June 2
Panel Submission Process Opens
The SXSW interactive Festival is a community driven event. So, if you have a great idea for a panel or a solo presentation for next year, then we want to hear from you. The submission process for the 2009 SXSW Panel Picker will commence on Monday, June 2. Stay tuned to the front page of this website for complete details.
May 22-23
WebVisions explores the future of the Web with an all-star lineup of visionary speakers that includes keynotes from Jeffrey Veen of Google and Lynne Johnson of FastCompany.com, as well as sessions by Rashmi Sinha (Slideshare.net), Matt Haughey (MetaFilter), Christina Wodtke (Boxes and Arrows) and many more!
May 21-22
The 2008 LA Games & Mobile event will focus on “The Future of Connected Games & Entertainment” – a theme that reflects much of the innovation and mindset in the industry and provides a great platform to involve companies and participants from a broad range of areas. Plenty of new ideas are sure to come of this must attend event that brings together the industry’s best of the best for days of high level discussions, networking and fun focused around the future of connected entertainment.
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The Latest Bits + Bytes
Blurb Launches Photography.Book.Now
In celebration of “the most innovative and finest self-published books and the people behind them” Blurb has launched The Photography.Book.Now International Salon and Symposium. Photographers can submit their books to compete for a number of prizes, with a grand prize of $25,000. Photography.Book.Now includes a traveling salon showcasing the winners of the book competition. The salon will be on view at the San Francisco Awards Ceremony, international Meet-ups, and at the Photography.Book.Now symposia in San Francisco, London, and New York.
Blurb was one of the innovative companies exhibiting at the SXSW Interactive / Film Trade Show + Exhibition this year. Contact Katie King to learn how your company can get exposure at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival.
Posted 05/14/08 in Latest News +
SXSW Interactive Report Card: 2008 Panel Ratings Released
From best to not-so-best, what follows are panel ratings from the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival according to feedback forms completed by attendees at the completion of each session. Each panel title is linked to its description on the SXSW website.
Ratings are based on a 1 to 5 scoring system, with 5 being the most favorable rating and 1 being the least favorable. Panels NOT listed on this page received 10 or less total feedback responses.
Also posted below are the average ratings for each day of the event. The figure in parenthesis indicates the rating for the corresponding day of the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival.
A brief word of caution: these ratings are by no means a foolproof or scientific method of evaluation. For many sessions, one registrant will say he / she absolutely hated the panel, while the next registrant will say that the session at hand was their favorite presentation of SXSW. Perhaps this very wide range of ratings is attributable to the diverse range of people who attend the event. One improvement we plan to implement in 2009 is to better label whether sessions are geared for beginners, intermediate or experts in the given topic.
Please feel free to comment on what your favorite panel at the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival is by emailing interpanels@sxsw.com. Your feedback is always valuable for us in continuing to improve the event.
Friday panels - 3.81 (3.65)
Saturday panels - 3.92 (3.82)
Sunday panels - 3.92 (3.64)
Monday panels - 4.15 (3.72)
Tuesday panels - 4.20 (3.55)
Average overall rating for 2008 - 4.00 (3.68)
Individual panel ratings after the jump.
Posted 05/08/08 in Latest News +
Big Players at SXSW Interactive Trade Show + Exhibition
Yahoo, Microsoft and Google… what do these companies have in common (other than plays for world domination)? All three exhibited in the Interactive / Film Trade Show + Exhibition this past March. The three-day exhibition is where tech players big and small come to strut their stuff. Get your brand in front of the tastemakers that make up SXSW Interactive next March.
Contact Katie King to receive the 2009 marketing brochure as soon as it hits in August.
Above image courtesy of Vicki Lalwani.
Posted 05/07/08 in Latest News +
Bike Hugger Cruises to Portland
Headed to Webvisions later this month? Then don’t miss Bike Hugger Mobile Social Portland on May 21. What’s a “Mobile Social Event” you ask? According to the folks at Bike Hugger, it’s “like a Tupperware party for bike enthusiasts, only without the beehive hairdo or weird cult-like party games.”
Similar to the event during SXSW Interactive this past March, the Portland version will feature an urban ride, reception and plenty of schwag – including a free registration to the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival.
Click on over to Bike Hugger for complete details on this event that celebrates bicycle culture like no other.
Posted 05/06/08 in Latest News +
Submit Your Online Flick to SXSWclick and Win
SXSWclick is a year-round initiative created to showcase short-form storytelling via mobile devices and the web. Entries for this year’s competition are now being accepted, so make sure to enter your innovative short film or video before the final deadline for submissions on June 13.
In addition to cool software and prizes (from Productiontrax.com, Gear Software, Mariner Software, Eye Scream Factory and Movie Outline Software), winners in each of the five categories will automatically be invited to screen at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival next March! Confirmed jurors include veterans such as Doug Benson, Ron Mann, Eugene Mirman, Jeffrey Tambor, Anish Savjani and Mary Sweeney.
Visit SXSWclick.com to watch top entries from 2007 and find out how you can get in on all the small-screen action.
Pictured above: Peterson’s Savings and Loan took home both the “Old-School Shorts” and “Popularity Contest” awards in 2007.
Posted 05/05/08 in Latest News +
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