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.
Social networks are only going to grow in popularity, breadth, and intensity of usage. Yet hundreds of millions of people are still stuck in environments like MySpace. Facebook is better, but still, there's quite a lot of room for improvement. What can we do to liberate these people? What does the next generation social network look like? Our panelists will evaluate and talk about the design challenges of creating the next iteration of networked social applications.