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Bijoy Goswami, bijoygoswami.com |
Bootstrap Your Startup
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Dell, Oracle, Microsoft and Virgin were bootstrap companies that were able to get started without raising traditional venture capital. Bootstrapping is not just capital efficient, it has many other positive influences on your business and your potential to profit from its success. Learn why you should consider the bootstrap method and ask questions of a successful bootstrap entrepreneur.
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Chris Stephenson, Microsoft Zune |
A Consumer-Driven Entertainment Economy: Reality or Pipedream?
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As the music industry continues to be engulfed by the broader world of social media, can the very people that were blamed for bringing down the music industry in the Napster-era be the industry’s saving grace? As it becomes increasingly evident that there are millions upon millions of music fans that now expect their music to be free, there is a tremendous opportunity to turn music pirates into music promoters and distributors. As artists continue to eliminate the middleman and labels shift business models, social media present an opportunity to monetize music in a completely new way.
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Jason Nunes, Small Media Extra Large |
Mobile Content: Is That a Computer in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
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Oh, sure, the iPhone the iPhone the iPhone. But in terms of content consumption, mobile devices seem to be stuck in pre-YouTube web 1.0 land. Content is hard to find, difficult to acquire, and may not even run on your device after you've downloaded it. The US mobile customer is rapidly being left behind the rest of the world. Now what are we going to do about it?
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Mobile / Wireless
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Cory Key, Discovery Communications, LLC |
Every Byte Counts: Reducing Our Online Footprint
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When Discovery launched its new network, Planet Green, and implemented a company-wide green initiative, our web design and development team faced one question: can you go “green” on the web? We’ll share the challenges and our techniques that helped us answer this question.
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Jared Fliesler, Slide, Inc. |
Cool or Not Kosher: Ads and Social Media
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How do ads play it cool in social media? This panel will include representatives from social and viral marketing agencies, widget maker Slide Inc., as well as blue chip advertisers, and will discuss possible road hazards in next gen viral marketing. Will Internet users tire of User-Generated Content and “remix” culture? How do brands go wrong online when trying to align with, or catalyze a community? Etc.
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Advertising / Marketing
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Henry Poole, CivicActions LLC |
Flexible Technology Strategies for NGOs and Social Ventures
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Technological changes are coming at a rate that is dizzying, even to the professionals. We will review real world examples of how NGOs, political organizations and social ventures put together technology plans and budgets that withstand the daily feed of emerging platforms, solutions, and changes in social culture.
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New Technology / Next Generation
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Narendra Rocherolle, 83 Degrees, Inc. |
Hot Chicks in Tech
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A look at how gender and sexuality influence the discourse within the tech industry.
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Human / Social Issues
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Traci Miller, Collective Detective |
You Need to De-Geek the Geek, Geek!
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To Geeks it's easy to speak in acronyms with a full sentence of just letters strewn together with a bunch of and's and the's. Problem: half your clients don't speak Geek. This panel delves into the kindergarten version of Geek talk to bring it down to a simpler level.
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Human / Social Issues
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Robin Grant, we are social |
Can Brands Have Conversations?
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A panel that really digs into the executional details of running conversational campaigns in social media, bringing together leading practioners to debate what works, what doesn't, how to measure them and what really drives returns for clients.
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Community / Social Networks
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Ellis Neder, Sway Design |
Remixing the Museum Exhibition
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What happens when six regional museums join forces, build a web site and allow us to remix their authoritative collections with public resources drawn from Flickr and YouTube?
How does a museum manage data that comes from third-party APIs? Is this a shift forward in the evolution of online exhibitions?
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Rob Campanell, Blastro Networks |
Old School vs. New School: Online Video's Adolescence
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The veterans of online video square off against the new upstarts in a quest for market domination, and considering the continuous evolution of online video, it’s anyone’s game. This session will explore identifiable content trends, Asian audience penetration and new technologies as the foundations for successful business models and expanding global opportunities.
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Paul Burke, thinktiv |
Design for Disagreement
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Increasingly, the problems the design community is being engaged to solve are compounding in complexity. What used to be something one person could solve alone now requires participation by a group of complementary collaborators. With such problems, the ways in which individuals solve problems has become less useful than understanding the ways a collaborative team solves a problem. The value of Design for today and tomorrow lies with understanding and employing collaborative problem solving—including the methods that enable a fluid design process, the practice of rapid creation, and the value of disagreement in solving complex problems.
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Joi Podgorny, Ludorum |
Launching Globally with Multi-Lingual Audiences
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So you scored your funding, staffed up, have a killer product and are ready to launch - but in several different language markets! How do you plan for this in regards to content? Listen and discuss best practices and horror stories with a panel of industry veterans.
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Mark Jen, Tagged |
Technical Interview Cheat Sheet!
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In the time allotted, I will attempt to answer as many common technical interview questions as I possibly can. Programming questions, brain teasers, fermi questions, you name it, I'll try to solve it. You'll definitely want to record this for review before your next interview!
If you run technical interviews, come and hear some new questions to grill your candidates with!
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Other
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Tony Pham, Slide, Inc. |
Internet’s Radio Star: Music in the Age of Online Discographies
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Digital partnerships for streaming playlists, or featured content are giving artists as well as record labels more exposure, and greater reach to new fans. This panel will include representatives from both record labels and social media (such as Slide) discussing how digital reach and social sites are HELPING record labels as well as independent artists.
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Marc Jensen, space150 |
Use Flash, Skip Deal with Devil
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Wouldn't it be nice if you could build your site once, reach your audience on a range of devices from mobile devices to desktop browsers, adhere to web standards, optimize your site for search, and use Flash? It's possible and you don't even need to sacrifice your soul.
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Kevin Rose, Digg |
Keynote – Social Media: Have Our Expectations Been Met?
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Kara Swisher, investigative technology reporter, asks the tough questions. Now she's at it again with Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson of Digg. Now that we're a couple of years into the wisdom of the crowds, she'll probe about whether or not social media has met expectations and what's next.
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Community / Social Networks
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John Geletka, Ratchet |
Idea Engineering
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Panel will discuss the processes and approach to engineering a complex creative idea in a scalable, flexible, and measurable way. Business goal, creative and engineering approach will be determined before the show. Panel members will break down the idea and talk through the engineering process, platform recommendations, components and integration opportunities.
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Advertising / Marketing
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Craig Alexander, Turbine, Inc. |
Where Content and Culture Collide - Managing Global Games
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From localization, business models and operations issues to variations in game content and cultural considerations, managing “global games” presents many challenges and opportunities. This presentation will share the lessons learned and technical details of bringing virtual worlds and MMOs to global markets.
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Video Games
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Suzanne Stefanac, AFI Digital Content Lab |
Inventing Tomorrow's Digital Media Solutions—Today!
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The AFI Digital Content Lab has prototyped more than 80 cutting-edge digital entertainment solutions over the past ten years. Working in collaboration with top-tier working professionals from the production, design, technology and business strategy sectors, the AFI Digital Content Lab teams have prototyped solutions for television, films, gaming, and mobile platforms. This panel provides some tips and tricks gleaned from these experts as we've worked together in our R&D Lab.
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Kristine Gloria, Austin 3.0 |
IGNORE: Hitting Your Social Quota
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I've got 10x0x friends, and you're not one of them. A discussion on why setting a social quota may not be a bad idea. Although this concept is highly understood, how can one manage the thousands of people on any given social network. The days of social media whores are numbered. Come see how to manage your digital landscape and why reject with comments should be the killer app.
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Aaron Strout, Mzinga |
Let's Get Social: Moving From Me to We
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The Web 2.0 evolution has enabled companies to connect with their constituents in transparent and impactful ways, achieving a greater competitive edge. In order to take full advantage of this movement, companies must embrace open dialogue through community and fully understand the implications of becoming a more “social” organization.
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Nova Spivack, Twine.com |
Flash-Forward: The Future of the Web
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What will the Web look like 5, 10, 15, 20 years out? How will these changes impact out daily lives? What are some of the most and least likely scenarios? What emerging technologies are already moving us towards this imagined future? This panel will feature leading thinkers and futurists who are on the cutting edge of technology and make their living knowing what's next.
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Tudor Brown, ARM |
Mobile Internet's Future - Super Phone or Sub Computer?
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By 2010 there will be 400 million Internet-enabled mobile devices in consumers’ hands - more than notebooks and desktops combined. These devices will open the door to a robust internet, social networking, media player and web applications on one highly-integrated device. But what form factor and applications will become the norm?
This panel will take a forward-looking view of what features and practices will be preferred by the consumer and the design challenges to deliver them to the marketplace.
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Mobile / Wireless
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Holly Ross, NTEN |
Social Change Behind the Firewall
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Successful nonprofits using social media are masters of social change behind the firewall. This panel shares best practices through stories from nonprofit institutions and examines how to get past resistance, uncooperative IT departments, and skepticism from management to reap the power of social media for social change beyond the firewall.
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Craig Moser, Lombardi Software |
Design in a Scrum-y World
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Just as developers have had to adjust to shrinking release cycles and increased demands, the role of user experience has evolved as well. New technologies, methodologies and capabilities present designers with interesting challenges and opportunities. This session explores how UX designers can survive & thrive in an environment filled with tight deadlines, changing technologies and scrum.
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Peter-Paul Koch, QuirksMode.org |
State of the Browsers
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Based on the results of his extensive test suites at QuirksMode.org, Peter-Paul Koch will discuss the current state of the four major browsers' DOM support and give tips and tricks for working around the most serious problems. He will also give vendors advice for future versions of their browsers.
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Jon Wiley, Google |
Doctypes Demystified
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Often built into templates or editors, doctypes receive little attention. To some it's just about quirks vs standards. To others it's a religious debate between strict and transitional. Get the facts and make smart decisions about which Document Type Definition is right for your work.
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Web / Interface Design
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Alex Jones, Refresh Austin |
SXSW Year Round: Organize Groups, Maintain Your Buzz
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We come to South-By for a variety of reasons, but we all leave with a heightened level of energy, ready to develop badass tools and design beautiful experiences. But that drive can fade all too quickly. We'll show you how to to organize and re-energize local groups to capture this experience throughout the year.
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Nikhil Daftary, Turn2Live |
Technology Innovations Improving the Live Music Experience
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Innovative internet and mobile technologies have the potential to dramatically enhance (or detract) the live music experience. 3G mobile web access will enable streaming video, music, and other data rich applications that could be used to deliver a more immersive (or disruptive) experience inside the venue, during the show.
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