As of September 2, Panel Picker voting is closed. You can, however, still leave comments on the proposals you find interesting. We will announce the first set of accepted panels on Thursday, October 2. Stay tuned to the SXSW Interactive Festival website for these announcements, or e-mail us if you have questions.
Last year it was Widgets. This year’s hot topic: Data Portability. Three major players in the social networking space announced competing approaches to making profile and friend data portable in 2008: First MySpace Data Availability followed by Facebook Connect and lastly Google Friend Connect. With all of these competing APIs, what does this mean for the users? For the developers?