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.
The story of Second Life from its beginnings as a simulated world built with incoherent ideas to a thriving user-created world to a model for nearly a dozen upcoming online worlds -- and, perhaps, an integral part of the future Internet.