2008

Chris Bernard User Experience Evangelist, Silverlight/Microsoft Corp Kevin Flatt Exe Creative Dir, Tribal DDB Garrick Schmitt VP, User Experience, Avenue A | Razorfish Brooke Nanberg Exec Creative Dir, ip pixel Peter Eckert Chief Creative Officer, Projekt202 The panel was sponsored by Microsoft. Due to seating, it was difficult to hear a lot of the discussion, […]

Warren says that secrets have a wisdom to them. After three years, he’s collected more than 200,000 postcards mailed to him, each with a different secret. Postcards are listed anonymously – whether cruel, sad, embarrassing, humorous, etc., and really say something human, usually in one or two lines of text and often accompanied by photos […]

Philip and I went to see Guy Kawasaki (sounds like a motorcycle) moderate a panel with seven members about their experiences – good, bad, profitable, embarrassing, etc. Some of the ethics in journalism came up. One of the better stories was from Kathryn Finney, the owner and creator of www.thebudgetfashionista.com, who received pictures from Sara […]

Brent Hoff Exec Producer, Wholphin DVD Patrick Kwiatkowski Founder, Microcinema International Liz Ogilvie Head of Programming, Docurama Films Scott Shooman VP of Acquisitions and Productions, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group The last format war was won by VHS, and created home video. Now DVDs account for 60% of profit for major studios. DVD has become […]

It was difficult to even find a corner to squeeze into because there was standing-room only for the panel. Panelists came from Firefox, Microsoft, and Opera. Apple was a no-show. One of the panelists actually invented javascript. Creating a great user experience is the key to the browser wars. Opera has nothing that’s proprietary. IE […]

Tim Nolan was speaking at the Pimp My Film’s Website panel. His company, First Born Multimedia, did simply that, pimped out websites for independent filmmakers. He referred to it as a way for them to extend their Web tentacles out into areas of social networking.  The film Marconi Bros. is debuting here at SXSW. The […]

This panel dealt with dealt with creating or becoming Internet stars. With the onslaught of consumer/user generated content the panel proclaimed content as “king.” If the content is good people will find it and it will rise to the top. They also discussed the importance of “branding” the content you produce. Serve your online audience. […]