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William Burdette,
The University of Texas at Austin
It's common to call the printing press revolutionary. But the printing press did not eliminate handw...
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It's common to call the printing press revolutionary. But the printing press did not eliminate handwriting. To this day, we have Moleskine notebooks, Post-It Notes, hipster PDAs. Similarly, the digital revolution will not kill print. We still buy books online and mark them up with pencils and highlighters. Pens are still more ubiquitous than digital mobile apps. People pay for photographic prints to hang on their fridges and walls. Bookstores do not merely exist; they legitimate neighborhoods. Every coffee shop has a bulletin board full of printed posters. Instead of predicting "The Future of Print in the Digital Age," this panel celebrates the present of print, and focuses on emerging print-digital hybrids. The panel consists of a printer, a couple of scholars, a poster distributor, and a print photographer who started a photo booth. Together we will explore projects that capitalize on the permeability of the boundaries separating manual, print, and digital realms.
Other / Out There ecology, hybrid, print
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Charlie Schick,
Practrical Microbes
Get excited listening to the leading-edge DIYBio thinkers and doers - share their tales of trials, t...
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Get excited listening to the leading-edge DIYBio thinkers and doers - share their tales of trials, tribulations, and triumphs. Humanity has been messing with biology for millennia. In the last 50 years, the tools have advanced to where we can design new remixes of organisms to make things for us, such as fuel, drugs, and the fresh smell of rain. What's more, the open source and hackerspace tinkering culture of the tech world has spilled over to create a nascent and vibrant community of do-it-yourself biologists. What does this mean for science, education, creativity, community, design, and safety? Come and find out!
Other / Out There diybio, hackerspaces, science
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Brian Dunning,
Skeptoid Media, Inc.
A live show from the #1 popular science and urban legend podcast. An hour packed with weird recordin...
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A live show from the #1 popular science and urban legend podcast. An hour packed with weird recordings and sounds from all areas of nature and the paranormal - it's the most fun you've ever had learning critical thinking. Ghost sounds, backwards recordings, radio broadcasts from outer space! Hear the weirdness, and learn the fascinating truth behind each one.
Other / Out There science, skepticism, Sound
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Stephanie Gerson,
Purpose
What would Coca-Cola taste like if if the company improved the labor standards in its factories? Wh...
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What would Coca-Cola taste like if if the company improved the labor standards in its factories? What kinds of software would Microsoft produce if it made its CEO-to-worker pay ratio more equitable? When we think about socially responsible design, we tend to think in terms of physical tweaks to products and supply chains, meticulously calculating carbon footprints and life cycle analyses and whole-life costs. But ultimately, thanks to the fractal nature of complex systems, there may be less of a need to calculate than we think - changes made in the marketing or operations or human resources departments will inevitably manifest themselves in product development. Posed as a question, might it be that by organizing ourselves in beautiful ways, we will design beautiful things? This talk is situated where Social Design meets Corporate Social Responsibility. It will explore how to create conditions conducive to the emergence of socially responsible products, what this teaches us about making systemic change, and what it implies about the fabric of our reality.
Other / Out There Complexity, product development, social change
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Julia Davis,
Enlighten
Have you ever had an experience with a brand that was so heinous you wished for an easy way to get r...
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Have you ever had an experience with a brand that was so heinous you wished for an easy way to get revenge? We have all the tools you need to exact digital annihilation.
For instance, say an airline wouldn’t give you an extra bag of peanuts and that bratty kid in A24 got three bags. Should you file a complaint with customer service? No, too logical. And it might not produce satisfactory results (i.e. a formal apology in which they admit liability for causing extreme emotional distress). Shouldn’t you instead launch a website— GiveMeMyNuts.com —with detailed info-graphics about the experience?
This panel will provide a step-by-step approach to exacting revenge on a brand. Using a fictitious brand introduced during the panel and audience participation, we will create a movement against this brand.
While this topic is clearly tongue-in-cheek (mostly), the conversation will introduce tactics for engaging customers, launching new causes and creating a unique voice in the digital space. Not only will you leave knowing how to put bad brands in check, you will be equipped with a digital arsenal for use in future, hopefully benevolent, projects.
Come prepared to do battle.
Other / Out There brand revenge, kittens, social media
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Jessica Hagy,
NA
Doodling is a universal, instinctive act—yet most of us only marginally understand the value of it...
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Doodling is a universal, instinctive act—yet most of us only marginally understand the value of it. Our minds are wired to create and process visual language and the simple act of doodling connects us to a powerful cognitive channel that ultimately teaches us how to think better. Humans can doodle with sophisticated drawing tablets or a stick in the sand. Join us to learn to harness this basic instinct and transform yourself into a more powerful innovator and problem-solver. Take doodling out of the margins and give it its DO.
Other / Out There Creativity, doodles, revolution
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Matt Crenshaw,
HowStuffWorks.com
What do Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate,
Wynton...
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What do Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google; Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Laureate,
Wynton Marsalis, internationally acclaimed jazz musician, composer and educator; Ted Leonsis, Internet pioneer, philanthropist and sports mogul; and Alexander Tsiaras, Founder and CEO of TheVisualMD all have in common? Like you, they are all curious about the world around them. And they are all contributors to Curiosity.com, a first-of-its-kind site that brings together some of the greatest visionaries, scholars and trendsetters of our time on a proprietary social expert Q&A platform to answer the “Questions of Life.”
From the most mundane like “how do I get red wine stains out of my carpet” to most life altering like “what are the symptoms of a heart attack”, the web has been an evolving destination for questions and answers since its inception allowing us to tap some of most innate human tendencies…our curiosity and our desire to connect with others. Today’s technology allows us to explore our own curiosity in brand new ways and truly have a global conversation around some of life’s most profound questions.
Are you curious? Join Conal Bryne for an inspiring insider’s look at the vision of Curiosity.com and the future of the Q&A platform.
Other / Out There content strategy, Curiosity, Q&A Platforms
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Charles Mangin,
Option8, LLC
Each year, thousands of technophiles descend upon Austin, bringing Internet-connected laptops, phone...
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Each year, thousands of technophiles descend upon Austin, bringing Internet-connected laptops, phones and tablets with them, and most of them think very little about keeping their personal communications secure. Open wireless networks in the convention center – and in hotels, bars and coffee shops – offer a convenient way to keep in touch with home, but also leave any data that is transmitted over those networks open to snooping by malicious individuals. In this session, host of Revision3 podcast Hak.5 and regular contributor on the TWiT network, Darren Kitchen, will walk attendees through live demonstrations of many ways in which their personal data are vulnerable while connected to the Internet at SXSW, and the steps they can take to keep that data private and safe. The tips and information from this session will benefit those who attend not only while they are at SXSW, but any time they sit down at their own local coffee shop and open up their laptop to fire off some email.
Other / Out There Hacking, networks, Security
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Molly Sauter,
MIT: Comparative Media Studies/Center for Civic Media
Hollywood and the international news media delight in presenting us with depictions of hackers and h...
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Hollywood and the international news media delight in presenting us with depictions of hackers and hacktivists as subterranean Ohmian "Super Users," capable of hacking *all* the ISPs with a few keystrokes in between shots of Red Bull. How do these depictions, both in fiction and news coverage of hacktivist actions, affect the development and implementation of Internet policy and regulations? In this talk, I'll be examining how media coverage and depictions of hackers and hacktivists has changed as the hacktivist movement has developed since the 1980s. I'll be describing how such coverage, from "Sneakers" to photo galleries of Fawkes-masked Anonymous protests, influences policy on subjects from intellectual property and communications regulations to information security and cyberwar. I'll be questioning what these trends of laws, regulations, and apparent media biases mean for the future of hacktivism and digital activism.
Other / Out There hacktivist, media coverage, policy
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Ally Khantzis,
LEWIS PR
The celestial jukebox. Cloud gaming. On-demand movies on your mobile phone. The dream of having all ...
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The celestial jukebox. Cloud gaming. On-demand movies on your mobile phone. The dream of having all the entertainment you want as soon as you want it, has never been so close. There’s just one catch: network contention. You know it by many forms: A spinning hourglass; a “Buffering” window; a stuttering video. Though full of promise, cloud-based, streaming entertainment is still a long way from the seamless, instant response we’ve come to expect from a DVD player or a console game system.
Why the slow-down? Part of it has to do with delays on the open Internet. But a surprising amount of it has to do with technology embedded in our TVs, home networks and set-top boxes. The explosion in entertainment is stressing our home networking technology to its limits. Every application wants all your bandwidth at the same time. It’s the “tragedy of the commons” right in your living room.
But help is on the way. In this panel, leading experts on home networking and media distribution will reveal the sometimes surprising causes of streaming media hiccups in the home, and technologies that could make buffering delays a thing of the past.
Other / Out There cloud, digital content, streaming media
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Amanda Coolong,
TechZulu
In 1922, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined the term “Noosphere” denoting the sphere of human tho...
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In 1922, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin coined the term “Noosphere” denoting the sphere of human thought. He believed mankind would experience a quickening brought on by increasingly complex interaction and socialization. The result? A massive evolution in consciousness where the planet and human thought become one. Some would say he predicted the Internet, and that we are experiencing the shift now.
Digital media is a meta-consciousness that pervades everything. We constantly interact with it and influence it, and in turn, it changes us. We are forming a neural network of sorts, becoming more aware of each other through real-time media and realizing the connection that exists between us all.
In this cross-disciplinary panel, experts in media, social philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness studies will explore the following:
Other / Out There consciousness, noosphere, social media
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Jeremy Keith,
Clearleft
Our communication methods have improved over time, from stone tablets, papyrus, and vellum through t...
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Our communication methods have improved over time, from stone tablets, papyrus, and vellum through to the printing press and the World Wide Web. But while the web has democratised publishing, allowing anyone to share ideas with a global audience, it doesn’t appear to be the best medium for preserving our cultural resources: websites and documents disappear down the digital memory hole every day. This presentation will look at the scale of the problem and propose methods for tackling our collective data loss.
Other / Out There digital preservation, history, html
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Kim Morrison,
Prysm
Subtitle: The way we interact with our television is changing. Submissive TV watching is a thing of ...
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Subtitle: The way we interact with our television is changing. Submissive TV watching is a thing of the past. What does the demand for larger, interactive video displays mean for the future of in-home entertainment?
The days of passive television viewing are gone. Today’s audiences are savvier and more engaged in the technology around them and expect more from their television screen than simple 2-D moving pictures. Television screens continue to get bigger and deliver a more immersive viewing experience accompanied by high-def picture quality and 3-D capabilities. As these technologies continue to improve, in-home entertainment is getting more and more life-like.
Unfortunately, the current television market cannot keep up with the consumer demand for a bigger, better viewing experience at home. While 55” plasma screens seem like the next best thing, they offer a logistical nightmare. From the transportation between store to home, to the installation and additional infrastructure needed to support them, to the mass quantities of power they consume, it seems the larger the screen the bigger the headache.
In this session, Prysm CEO, Amit Jain, will explore the future of television and discuss the changes in technology needed to make this a reality.
Other / Out There Futore of TV, GreenTV, television
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Betsy Flanagan,
Betsy Flanagan
What would your life be like if you knew, in every situation, how to select precisely the right word...
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What would your life be like if you knew, in every situation, how to select precisely the right words to become irresistibly persuasive? Come learn how to identify and use language patterns that entice people to move from one perspective on an issue to another. Discover how to maximize your impact, strengthen your relationships, inspire others to your vision, overcome objections, build client confidence, motivate your team, create compelling copy, manage your boss, and get more of what you want from life. What new opportunities and experiences become available when you can persuade others easily and effortlessly?
Other / Out There Leadership, persuasion, Success
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Mark Channon,
Memory School
"How to Remember Anything" shows how a radically improved memory can add real value in lif...
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"How to Remember Anything" shows how a radically improved memory can add real value in life and in business and can help build your career.
Mark Channon, Actor, Hypnotherapist, Product Manager and author of Teach Yourself How to Remember Anything, will take you on a whirlwind tour of memory techniques and learning strategies. Guiding you through a set of practical examples on how to remember names, books, scripts, presentations and more.
Mark was one of the first Grand Masters of Memory in the world and creator of BBC's Monkhouses Memory Masters.
Be prepared to play!
Other / Out There career, memory improvement, remember anything
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Ozioma Egwuonwu,
RAPP
Before tags were considered the purview of the digerati, the art of tagging was perfected by none ot...
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Before tags were considered the purview of the digerati, the art of tagging was perfected by none other than the graffiti artist. In fact, there are striking similarities between graffiti culture and digital culture beyond the basic unit of organization and influence AKA the tag.
At its core, graffiti is the art of scratching on a surface. When a graffiti artist tags, he or she is applying a signature to the surface of culture. When we use tags to append and annotate our experiences, we do the same. In today’s marketing landscape, every time a brand acts publicly, they are in essence “Tagging Culture,” increasing or decreasing their cultural cache, leaving their mark.
In a hyper-connected world where tags help us navigate our desires, curate influences and affiliations, and bring order to our everyday lives, the craft and perspectives brought to bear in the graffiti movement have a great deal to teach us.
Through case studies and experiential narratives, we will unpack the implicit synergies that exist between both movements and reveal insights that will have implications for brand experience design, cultural strategy, digital marketing and overall how we approach and propagate ideas and social memes in the Age of Techno-Social Enablement.
Other / Out There Culture, Graffiti, tagging
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stephen henrik,
the globe and mail
How did Perez Hilton grow his audience? How did Pandora grow? How did Facebook grow? How did Google ...
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How did Perez Hilton grow his audience? How did Pandora grow? How did Facebook grow? How did Google grow? How did Angry Birds grow to be so grumpy? Was it luck? Right trend at the right time? Experimentation? Partnerships? Or social status? Here are 10 no-cost online & mobile tips you can tap into for your personal brand, band, blog, film, agency or startup.
Other / Out There audience development, audience strategy, celebrity brands
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John Romano,
The Digital Beyond
In the future, we aren't going to fight the robots, we're going to become the robots. In fact, it ma...
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In the future, we aren't going to fight the robots, we're going to become the robots. In fact, it may be even sooner -- like, now. We’ll have two AI-powered panelists taking questions from the audience.
Oh, we'll have some great biological panelists, too. They'll discuss artificial intelligence, digital avatars, and the future of identity. Along the way we’ll learn:
* Just how close we are to seeing self-aware, digital life forms
* How new AI technology might enhance our biological lives
* How digital avatars might keep living for you after you die
The singularity won't be televised, folks. We'll make sure you don't miss it.
Other / Out There AI, Future, identity
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Kath Mainland,
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society
Arts festivals are all about bringing people together, creating shared experiences and introducing t...
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Arts festivals are all about bringing people together, creating shared experiences and introducing them to cultural gems that they might not otherwise have found. How can festivals make best use of new technology to develop their audiences, enhance the impact of their content and remain relevant in the Information Age? What role can festival data play in the semantic web, and does it have more to offer than just what's on where? How might social platforms, ticketing innovations and mobile applications help audiences to navigate and explore the content available at a major arts festivals? In 2011 we opened our data to the developer community through www.culturehackscotland.com. Culture Hack Scotland was an outstanding event and was one of the strongest ever demonstrations of the value of open data in the arts. Hear how Edinburgh's Festivals Innovation Lab is beginning to answer some of these questions and explore what value the Edinburgh Festivals, a significant test bed environment, can add to the SXSW community.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world, and works with the other 11 major festivals in the city through Festivals Edinburgh.
Other / Out There Edinburgh, Festivals , Fringe
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Stephanie Smith,
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Niburu! Comet Elenin! Asteroid YU55! It's not the end of the world, really. NASA and Discover's &quo...
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Niburu! Comet Elenin! Asteroid YU55! It's not the end of the world, really. NASA and Discover's "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait are here to explain why. This panel discussion will take on the Internet factor in the cause and cure of 2012 hysteria. We'll look at how urban legends spread, data gets shared and myths get debunked online. See the Web-based tools the Near-Earth Objects office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses to keep an eye on asteroids and comets (and let you know about them), and how the amateur astronomy community is helping in the effort to track low-flying space rocks. The Bad Astronomer himself shares rumor-slaying tales from behind the scenes of his popular blog. The sky isn't falling, but misconceptions are. Join us.
Other / Out There 2012, asteroid, NASA
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Rob Campanell,
Blastro Networks
I open up the digital draperies in my home for all my SXSWi neighbors to peek inside. My residence...
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I open up the digital draperies in my home for all my SXSWi neighbors to peek inside. My residence is a typical SXSWi household. We have three connected TVs, multiple computers, gaming consoles, wireless audio systems, handheld devices and subscriptions to multiple content services.
We will examine my current household bandwidth consumption and total costs, and forecast these in 2025. Survey places around the world with greater household bandwidth to explore what connected services our households will be using in the future. Present a wish list for the connected home in 2027.
Other / Out There connected home, International, policy
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Lara Sasaran,
ESPN
Creative Innovation takes many forms in the sports world, from interactive TV, digital media, event ...
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Creative Innovation takes many forms in the sports world, from interactive TV, digital media, event marketing, mobile, broadcast, 3D TV, print...and even advertising placement. Storytelling is at the core of innovation at ESPN, after-all sports is a way we communicate across cultures, find common ground, and is steeped in many of our traditions. It pushes the creative boundaries as we search for new ways to access more audience as well keep our core audience engaged and wanting more - and laughing!
Other / Out There innovative convergence, interactive design, sports storytelling
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Ben White,
Bite Communications
More than a buzzword, Big Data has continued to grow in importance, but also in volume, variety and ...
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More than a buzzword, Big Data has continued to grow in importance, but also in volume, variety and velocity. Understanding big data can help solve big problems. Right now, however, much of the focus remains on optimizing ad revenues, tweaking marketing campaigns or pushing products that "people like you also purchased". Let's do more.
This panel looks at the promise of processing large-scale datasets generated from broader networks of employees, partners, and consumers collaborating together in different ways. Bringing together diverse perspectives, this panel explores the convergence of data and social activity, what it means for work, business, and for the broader global economy. We will look at specific examples of how organizations are using this convergence to create impact, ask different questions, and solve new problems.
Other / Out There analytics, Big Data, Social Graph
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Bruce Sterling,
Beyond the Beyond
Turin, once the capital of Italian cinema, has created a tech art scene. Turin's "Share Festiv...
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Turin, once the capital of Italian cinema, has created a tech art scene. Turin's "Share Festival" began six years ago as an international fiesta of Internet art, and has since become famous for installations, interventions, provocations and freedom-of-expression issues. Share director Simona Lodi will show video work by Paolo Cirio, Liens Invisibles, Stelarc, Lia, and Lucas Bambozzi. Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic will describe the work of judging tech art, and how a Texan and a Serbian gleefully participate in a European creative scene.
Other / Out There art, free culture, Technology
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Kristin Cerda,
Private Consulting
Are sex-positive feminism and pickup artistry inherently opposed? Are they possibly dependent on eac...
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Are sex-positive feminism and pickup artistry inherently opposed? Are they possibly dependent on each other? In recent years, the popularity of the pickup artist movement has placed the subject in popular cultural locations such as MTV and Oprah. The internet is ever birthing new discussions on all sides of the debate, and the realities of social media and geolocation technologies makes finding and building niche communities easier than ever. Are these methods helping average guys score, or is it an avenue to breed sexual predators? For or against, people from many backgrounds are weighing in on a discussion that is rooted in the most basic mediums of the web. Join a panel of men and women ranging from seasoned pick-up artists, to outspoken feminist bloggers, to those who straddle the line. No longer talking at each other, these experts in their fields will debate with each other the realities of the new sex rules, and what these rules mean in the context of a mediated life.
Other / Out There Feminism, Pickup Artists, social media and dating
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Jason Hall,
Teebster
With over 750 million active users, Facebook now has a bigger population than the USA - bigger, in f...
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With over 750 million active users, Facebook now has a bigger population than the USA - bigger, in fact, than all but two countries on the planet.... and Zuckerberg has his sights set on them too. Along with Google, Apple, Twitter and Microsoft, Facebook is undoubtedly a superpower of our digital earth. Each of these superpowers - like their real world counterparts - has its own 'national identity'; an ethos and culture that pervades everything it does. So if Facebook was a country, what country would it be?
Join us as we unashamedly peddle a few crass cultural stereotypes and apply them to these dominant powers in the new world order. Which of them are dictatorships? Which will rise and fall? Is Electronic Colonialism a paranoid nightmare or a genuine, silent threat? And where will Tom from MySpace go when he finally gets the hell out and applies for refugee status?
Part tongue-in-cheek, most probably foot-in-mouth, but occasionally insightful and thought-provoking, if only by accident, this is one of those wild-card talks that will either totally suck or be the best thing you go to all year.
Other / Out There globalization, humor, wild card
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Mark Linder,
ND Partners, LLC dba Sola Salon Studios
It is easy to get along when everyone is behind and supportive of an event, person, sports team or e...
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It is easy to get along when everyone is behind and supportive of an event, person, sports team or even a product. It is not so easy to get along when the specific group you are working with are all battling for the same revenue dollars, in the same building at the same time. So what do you do if the success of your brand counts on this group all pulling on the rope together with little or no conflict?
Learn ways to bring competitors together and action steps you can take to help these competitors work as a team to insure your success. Hear about actual events and steps taken overcome actual challenges. Find out how to build a stronger brand in a highly volatile environment. Hear how communication tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Yelp, Google and more all assist in binding the group together towards a common cause. Learn how to make advisories act as a team and create an environment where competitors become a community.
Other / Out There Brand building, community building, competition
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Shawn Fenton,
Designkitchen
Did Catz and bad English on the internet make us funnier? A look into the unique style of comedy tha...
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Did Catz and bad English on the internet make us funnier? A look into the unique style of comedy that has emerged from internet communities and what it means for our culture’s sense of humor. Has quick and endless access to imagery, video and high fidelity production and authoring tools made our jokes funnier, easier or just different? We examine how humorously connecting obscure pieces of pop culture through a Meme, non-sequitur or animated gif results in LOLz online, but not necessary at your next cocktail party.
Other / Out There comedy, funny, LOLz
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Mark Briggs,
KING BROADCASTING
Hackathons, innovation tournaments and startup weekend-style events can power the necessary innovati...
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Hackathons, innovation tournaments and startup weekend-style events can power the necessary innovation for traditional companies that otherwise wouldn't have the capacity or creativity for such projects. A TV station in Seattle used one to leverage the top developer talent in the city to build an innovative news website that is an important piece of its growth strategy. Learn how they did it and how other companies can tap the power of the crowd for expertise that is not part of their core competency. The best part is that these projects are low-cost and high-touch, increasing the credibility of the company and the brand loyalty of an influential tech crowd.
Other / Out There Events, hackathon, innovation
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Gordon Mohr,
Infinithree Project
The Infinithree Project aims to loosen the strict 'encyclopedic' rules of Wikipedia, while substitut...
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The Infinithree Project aims to loosen the strict 'encyclopedic' rules of Wikipedia, while substituting other constraints and social processes for an ever-improving, ever-growing reference work. The motivations, risks, and opportunities of this approach will be discussed.
Other / Out There Search, Wikipedia, Wikis
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