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SUMMARY:Book Reading: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
DESCRIPTION:As a web developer\, you'll already know that JavaScript is a powerful language\, allowing you to add an impressive array of dynamic functionality to otherwise static web sites. But there is more power waiting to be unlocked -- JavaScript is capable of full object-oriented capabilities\, and by applying OOP principles\, best practices\, and design patterns to your code\, you can make it more powerful\, m...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Day Stage\, Austin\, TX
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
DESCRIPTION:Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don't look nice? If so\, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple\, easy-to-follow guide\, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples\, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science\, and using the information contained...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Day Stage\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060330
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SUMMARY:How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics
DESCRIPTION:Where should you go? What parties are cool? How can I meet those people that are *gasp* Internet FAMOUS! Learn this and more at this welcome panel for SXSW Noobs. This panel will provide useful tips for SXSW virgins and veterans from a diverse panel of SXSW Interactive attendees\, speakers\, and personalities. Come for the laughs\, anecdotes\, and useful tools that will equip you to "Rawk Out" during...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 18ABCD\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060422
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SUMMARY:Respect!
DESCRIPTION:We create the web. Yet twelve years and two bubbles into its history\, we get no respect as a profession. And nobody understands what we do\, unless we're selling to Google or Yahoo. How can architects\, designers\, writers and coders work with clients\, journalists and the public to foster understanding and get their best work produced?
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 18ABCD\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060463
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DTSTART:20080307T180000
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SUMMARY:Friday Night Mix at Six (6-8pm)
DESCRIPTION:Soft launch into the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival experience with the Friday Night Mix at Six. Hosted by Porter Novelli\, this official pre-party provides a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new connections. Great views of downtown Austin from the rooftop deck!
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LOCATION:Six\, 117 W 4th St @ Colorado\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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SUMMARY:Higher Ed Web Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Meetup in Austin during the SXSW conferences to put some faces to all the people we talk to on listservs all year. We'll help kick off SXSW 2008 right and give you a chance to meet other attendees from the education sector! Come and go as you please as we'll be very close to other SXSWi opening parties!
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LOCATION:Maggie Mae's\, 323 E 6th St\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/443324
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SUMMARY:Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits
DESCRIPTION:You know the drill - you're in the early stage of developing a website for an idea and suddenly realize you're wasting time cutting up placeholder images\, experimenting with fonts\, and trying different form layouts when what you ought to be doing is making those forms actually work! But you want to demo this thing to your friends and get some feedback\, and you want it to look decent.We're going to...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 6\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060392
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DTSTART:20080308T103000
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: Stylin' With CSS - Second Edition
DESCRIPTION:Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work\, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text\, throu...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Day Stage\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060320
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DTSTART:20080308T110000
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: High Performance Web Sites
DESCRIPTION:Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 25% to 50% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders\, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!\, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages on the Web. Even sites that had already been highly optimized\, such as Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Front Pa...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Day Stage\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060323
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SUMMARY:The Contextual Web
DESCRIPTION:The next generation of the web isn't going to be on your desktop\, it may not even be on your mobile device. Context is going to be increasingly important and Nick Finck of Blue Flavor will take you through the process of designing and architecting for context as well as creating sites and apps that work regardless of the context. He will step through the elements of context and what is critical to...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060494
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SUMMARY:Opening Remarks with Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Henry Jenkins was one of the most popular speakers at last year's SXSW Interactive Festival\, so we are very excited to have him return to the event in 2008. His foil in this conversation is best-selling author Steven Johnson\, who served as the Keynote Speaker at the 1998 event. This presentation will be simulcast in both Ballroom B and the Day Stage Cafe.
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060452
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SUMMARY:Blood\, Sweat\, and Fear: Great Design Hurts
DESCRIPTION:The core dilemma for talented designers in any field is this: If you strive for greatness in your design\, you will meet resistance; if you strive to avoid resistance\, you can't do great design. Different is scary. Great design has to fight with the idea that many see "better" as meaning "more of the same". The better your work and the higher your standards\, the more you'll have to fight against th...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room B\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060313
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: The Second Life Herald
DESCRIPTION:When a virtual journalist for a virtual newspaper reporting on the digital world of an online game lands on the real-world front page of the New York Times\, it just might signal the dawn of a new era. Virtual journalist Peter Ludlow was banned from The Sims Online for being a bit too good at his job--for reporting in his virtual tabloid the Alphaville Herald on the cyber-brothels\, crimes\, and stro...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Day Stage\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060341
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SUMMARY:Google Party (6-8pm)
DESCRIPTION:Come join the fun with Google! There are sure to be great beverages\, tasty eats and plenty of that fun Google swag. Hope to see you there!
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LOCATION:Light Bar\, 408 Congress Ave @ 4th St\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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SUMMARY:Frog Design / SXSWi Opening Party (8-11pm)
DESCRIPTION:This is the legendary frog design party you've always been hearing about. We'll have Grupo Fantasma\, fire dancers and more to officially kick off the 15th year of SXSW Interactive.?
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LOCATION:Mexican American Cultural Center\, 600 River St\, Austin\, TX
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SUMMARY:16 Bit: SXSWi's Opening Night Afterparty (10pm-2am)
DESCRIPTION:SXSWi's (un)official opening night afterparty. Successor to last year's "8 bit\," complete with wide open Texas patio\, wide open bar\, 80's DJs\, and new this year: 999 Eyes\, an authentic human oddities freakshow.
CATEGORIES:PARTY
LOCATION:Scoot Inn\, 1308 E 4th St\, Austin\, TX
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SUMMARY:Everyone's A Design Critic
DESCRIPTION:A picture may be worth a thousand words\, but not if they're all hot air. A valid critique is fundamental to any design process\, and we'll demonstrate some do's and don'ts\, including the anatomy of a well-formed opinion and a handy guide to getting useful feedback from clients.
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060387
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SUMMARY:Everything I Know About Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars
DESCRIPTION:Star Wars is much more than a cult hit for sci-fi fans. It includes life-lessons for all of us\, and helps us see our craft as web professionals from a different perspective. Here we learn what our favorite Star Wars characters have to say about accessibility.
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room C\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060388
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SUMMARY:Keynote Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
DESCRIPTION:One of the tech industry's most intriguing story-lines over the last two years is the incredible growth of FaceBook from college networking tool to global giant. Hear the founder and CEO of this company talk about where the company is now - and where he plans to take it in the future. This presentation will be simulcast in both Ballroom B and the Day Stage Cafe.
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060443
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DTSTART:20080309T153000
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SUMMARY:Core Conversation: Opening the Web to Linguistic Realities
DESCRIPTION:Why is it that even the most popular websites assume that you would only want to receive information in one language at a time\, based on what country you're logging in from? Or that most content generation software still struggle with the notion of producing content in multiple languages? Many people speak and understand more than one language - perhaps more than we truly realise. The onset of glo...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Ballroom E\, Austin\, TX
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UID:2233a9b298ff4b7b056ce2dcda648f1f@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060453
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DTSTART:20080309T170000
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SUMMARY:SEO 3.0: Optimizing Search & Social for 2008 and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Learn what's essential to stay atop Google's ever-evolving world. What good is your phenomenal interactive creation if it's not found?
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060556
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SUMMARY:SXSW Web Awards Pre-Party (6-7pm)
DESCRIPTION:Speculate on who will take home a coveted Web Award at the official pre-party under the oaks in Brush Square Park. Free beer\, delicious food and the cool sounds of DJ Stay Gold will get you warmed up for the main event to follow.
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LOCATION:Brush Square Park @ ACC\, 500 E Cesar Chavez St\, Austin\, TX
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SUMMARY:Fray Caf? (8pm-12am)
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its eighth year at SXSW Interactive\, Fray Cafe is a night of true\, personal stories told live on stage. Join host Baratunde Thurston and an amazing lineup of featured storytellers (Kevin Smokler\, Heather Gold\, Ariel Meadows Stallings\, Clarence Smith Jr.). Copies of Fray's first book\, Busted! True Stories of Getting Caught in the Act\, will be available. And bring a 5-minute true story t...
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LOCATION:Red Eyed Fly\, 715 Red River St\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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SUMMARY:Gawker Media at SXSW (9-11pm)
DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy a few drinks at the fourth annual drinks with Gawker Media! As usual\, we'll have an open bar\, a great outdoor space\, and some of your favorite editors. This year we're not listing ourselves on the official SXSW program\, but feel free to bring a guest or two. No badge required.
CATEGORIES:PARTY
LOCATION:Side Bar\, 602 E 7th St\, Austin\, TX
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UID:5f9541aa06b1a69cdb8f919a32c385ca@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/426412
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SUMMARY:Scalability Boot Camp
DESCRIPTION:No matter what language you use for your web site's backend\, you're going to have to grow it. Learn how to identify your pain points and walk out with a tool chest of practical solutions-- topics include monitoring\, caching\, the database layer\, file storage engines\, and job systems.
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 9\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060466
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DTSTART:20080310T113000
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SUMMARY:A Critical Look At OpenID
DESCRIPTION:OpenID (www.openid.net) is a single sign-on mechanism that has recently become popular. For the average user\, the benefit of OpenID is that it will let you use the same username and password at any new web site you visit instead of having to sign-up using a new username and password each time. Although this seems to be a great idea\, relatively few users have OpenID credentials\, and so OpenID is st...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 10\, Austin\, TX
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UID:32e598db2ae25b1979b0ab968f487e0b@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060295
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SUMMARY:Browser Wars: Deja Vu All Over Again?
DESCRIPTION:In the fairly recent past\, the only direction the emerging Web platform could take was largely determined by the often acrimonious competition between Netscape and Microsoft via their respective browsers. Today\, with hot mobile devices like the iPhone using Webkit\, the popularity of Firefox\, an IE7 that's gaining adoption\, and the constant demand for cool Web apps\, the Web Platform is once again h...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 10\, Austin\, TX
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UID:c4b65e6e13b8294e3c5f230b6a851462@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060348
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DTSTART:20080310T150000
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide
DESCRIPTION:This book isn't a computer user manual\, and it isn't a productivity system. It's a mashup of both. It's where you learn to practice big-picture productivity methods on your very own computer desktop. Whether you're a Mac or Windows user\, know only enough to get by or are the family tech support geek\, there are tricks here for you. Whether or not you've been turbocharging your day with the tips fro...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Day Stage\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060561
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DTSTART:20080310T153000
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SUMMARY:Design Eye for South By
DESCRIPTION:The Design Eye team returns for 2008. The project? Transforming sxsw.com into a site as social as SXSW itself. Watch as this rogue team of design professionals turns its multi-disciplined attention toward the online home of everyone's favorite conference.
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 18ABCD\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060376
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DTSTART:20080310T170000
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SUMMARY:Building Portable Social Networks
DESCRIPTION:Are you tired of entering your information every time you sign up for a new service? Are you fed up with adding the same contacts from scratch on every social networking site? The building blocks for portable social networks already exist. OpenID\, microformats and OAuth let us build open\, user-controlled networks. We'll talk about why this is good for users and how to actually put these building b...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060351
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DTSTART:20080310T193000
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SUMMARY:The Great British Booze-up (7:30-10pm)
DESCRIPTION:The lovely folks from Clearleft\, Carsonified and Boagworld have hired a traditional British (cough) pub for an evening of music\, drinking and merriment. Hang out with your favourite British designers and laugh at their funny accents and eccentric ways. We've even organised food\, so you won't be limited to warm beer and pork-scratchings.
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LOCATION:Shakespeare's Pub\, 314 E 6th St\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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DTSTART:20080310T200000
DTEND:20080310T220000
SUMMARY:Adobe Sneak Peek Party (8-11pm)
DESCRIPTION:Get an inside look at how Adobe is powering the future of entertainment at the Sneak Peek Party of Adobe Media Player. Join the excitement of the event with FREE gifts\, FREE food\, FREE drinks\, skateboarding tricks\, celebrity appearances\, and a surprise musical act you won?t want to miss!
CATEGORIES:PARTY
LOCATION:Dirty Dog\, 505 E 6th St\, Austin\, TX
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UID:68eeffd7c6c0682bbe379448bb8e0ba5@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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DTSTART:20080310T230000
DTEND:20080311T010000
SUMMARY:SXNW - South by Northwest 3rd Annual Geek Fest Party at SXSW
DESCRIPTION:Blue Flavor and Raincity Studios proudly present the 9th annual South by Northwest party. Bring your favorite webhead to the Iron Cactus for a night of flowing tequila and nonsense!
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LOCATION:Iron Cactus\, 606 Trinity\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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SUMMARY:Content Management System Roundup
DESCRIPTION:This panel discussion will bring together a group of experienced Web designers\, developers\, and businesspeople to talk about their experiences building sites using a variety of content management system (CMS) products. A variety of widely-used CMS products will be covered\, including Drupal\, Expression Engine\, SharePoint\, and Collage\, and the panel will also cover the challenges of developing a "ho...
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 18ABCD\, Austin\, TX
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060364
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DTSTART:20080311T113000
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SUMMARY:Core Conversation: Can .edu Act Like a .com?
DESCRIPTION:Higher Education institutions are sometimes at a disadvantage when it comes to consistent branding of their websites. With hundreds of departments and units creating their own websites\, how can a style guide be actively enforced without getting in the way of "academic freedom?" We'll be taking a look at some universities that seem to be on the right track and discuss what is the minimum amount of...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Ballroom E\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060352
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DTSTART:20080311T140000
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SUMMARY:Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
DESCRIPTION:This talk will delve into the secret techniques used by JavaScript library authors to create comprehensive libraries that work seamlessly across browser environments. We'll look at everything from fixes for strange browser quirks\, tricks for gaining speed\, to tips for writing smooth animations. This panel will be held by experienced JavaScript Library developers who have\, cumulatively\, many decade...
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room 9\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
UID:b2c04151ba4686e2b800a9fdd3180803@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060469
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DTSTART:20080311T153000
DTEND:20080311T163000
SUMMARY:Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
DESCRIPTION:The all-knowledgable webmaster is long gone\, replaced by groups of specialists. When they work well together awesome things happen. When they don't the results are ugly\, insecure\, inaccessible and slow\, assuming they launch at all. What's the magic that great teams have in common\, and what can we learn from them?
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LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room A\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
UID:1f89c6c67f884d8cfe84e8f02aedfa36@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060370
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DTSTART:20080311T170000
DTEND:20080311T180000
SUMMARY:Core Conversation: Online Identity: And I *Do* Give a Damn About My Bad Reputation
DESCRIPTION:The living web is reconfiguring the concept of self. Web designers and developers need to understand the "Human OS" - the "layer stack" of identity\, reputation\, attention and presence - and how that understanding can help incorporate effective incentives into the DNA of a social platform.
CATEGORIES:PANEL
LOCATION:Austin Convention Ctr\, Room Ballroom E\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels_schedule/?action=show&id=IAP060450
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080311T200000
DTEND:20080311T220000
SUMMARY:Media Temple / SXSWi Closing Party
DESCRIPTION:SXSW Interactive. Awesome beverages and hot DJs provided. Featuring the Daily Juice Crew\, DJ Prince Klassen\, DJ Raedawn and more.
CATEGORIES:PARTY
LOCATION:TBD\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
UID:79bdb6c9218d94bd11f55676c41c68e5@cell911.sxsw2008.sched.org
URL:http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/evening_events/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20080311T210000
DTEND:20080311T230000
SUMMARY:The Bigg Digg Shindigg (9pm-4am)
DESCRIPTION:Join the Digg crew on Tuesday\, March 11th from 9pm-4am to celebrate the last night at SXSW. Enjoy a full open bar sponsored by PureVolume and Franciscan Winery while dancing to the sounds of live bands and DJs throughout the night. The party will continue into the wee hours of the morning - you can sleep on the plane the next day! Be sure to check out BiggDiggShindigg.com for all the details and h...
CATEGORIES:PARTY
LOCATION:PureVolume Ranch\, 323 E 2nd St\, Austin\, TX
SEQUENCE:0
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URL:http://biggdiggshindigg.com/
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