Crunching and Streaming: Online Video Distribution Challenge and Opportunity
Brendon Mills - CEO, RipCode
Todd Bryant - CEO, Netcast HD Inc
Jeff Kramer, Polycot Labs
Sloan Foster - Chief Mktg Officer, DCI
Ashley Still, Adobe Systems
This was a very good session with some good information. However, I do think that a running rule should be no more than 3 people [...]

10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment -
Bryan Mason - Chief Operating Officer, Adaptive Path
Sarah Nelson - Design Strategist, Adaptive Path
One of the best sessions so far. Similar to the Jason Fried session…nothing really new, but amazing information that we all need to hear again, and again, and again! I missed the first [...]

A Critical Look At OpenID
Artur Bergman - Dir of Engineering, Wikia Inc/O’Reilly Radar
George Fletcher - Chief Architect, AOL LLC
Jason Levitt, Eep! Eep!
David Recordon - Open Platforms Tech Lead, Six Apart Ltd
Andy Smith, Google
Simon Willison, www.simonwillison.net
I will go on record and say I am a big fan of OpenID. I have been [...]

Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons
Stephanie Booth - Web Consultant & Commentator, Climb to the Stars
Brian McConnell - Founder, Worldwide Lexicon
Kelly Thompson - Exec VP, iStockphoto Inc
Stephanie Troeth - Director of Interactive Technology & Solutions, CloudRaker
Kevin Marks - Dev Advocate, Google
I was running about [...]

Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users - Kathy Sierra
Opening question: What did (do) you really, really want to be good at?
20 Things
1) User Telepathy, read facial expressions.
2) Serendipity, filter things for our users so we help with the Wow!
3) The dog ears principles.
4) Create Joy!
5) Inspire First-person Language, your site should NOT be [...]

Mark Zuckerberg was interviewed at SXSWi by Sara Lacy and….Holy cow, this was the worst Keynote I have ever seen. What was so sad is the content that Zuck was talking about was great, but greatly over shadowed by Sarah Lacy who was just totally out of line flirting and just bombing the interview.
More great [...]

Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs - Jared Spool Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
Ok, here is something I just do not understand. Why…why…why…can the presenters no give me the presentation slides or notes before, or even after their presentation? Come on guys!
A really, really good session! Only a [...]

Ok, this will be a very short post…but SXSW is not green at all. Wow, of all the conferences that I have been to, I would really expect SXSW to be much more environmentally friendly. Everywhere you turn there is a lot of wasted paper, boxes, junk…tons of crap handed out to every attendee. Tons= [...]

SXSW - The Science of Designing Interactions -Andreas Weigend, People & Data - Ming Yeow Ng, Discoverio
I really needed more Starbucks before this session. These guys are rock solid, and sharp…but I am really struggeling to translate and comprehend this morning. So, here are my few tidbits.
Be bold: Create, experiment, and Measure.
Focus on Metris for [...]

SXSW - Core Conversation: How to Build Facebook in Bangalore: Outsourcing 2.0 - Sandeep Sood CEO, Monsoon Company
This was a “core conversation”, so it was not a big room…big stage.. I really like the idea of the round table converstation…because really…we are so much more about converstation than conferences. However, the [...]