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.
Many have spoken about how to use AJAX and Flash to make sites more responsive and interactive. But the truth is that the road to rich web applications is full of wrong turns and dead ends. Rich web technologies give the beginning webdev more than enough rope to hang themselves!