The clothes you wear. The electronic gizmos you use. Much of the food you eat. These physical payloads were delivered by a complex, standards based, slow-moving packet switched network that uses cargo containers as packets and container ships as the network pipe. The containers, ships and ports... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5534
Mar 11, 2011 at 2:00pm Collection by Tom Stitt
The mobile market is flooded with fun, useful and engaging applications. These apps are becoming increasingly important to a company’s success but many companies are simply recreating their product for mobile without giving adequate consideration to the differences in mobile and Web based... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7248
Mar 11, 2011 at 3:30pm Collection by Keepstream
We all know photo sharing is nothing new - it's been around as long as photos have been around and that's a long long time! So what's all the buzz around mobile photo sharing now? Are people all jumping on the bandwagon to share their mobile photos? Instagram just passed 1M users within 3... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP000507
Mar 11, 2011 at 3:30pm Collection by Keepstream
Markets are conversations. As the web continues its neverending voyage toward Social, indie merchants must learn to engage and interact with their existing and future customers in new ways. The era of Social Shopping has begun, so get the info you need to stay ahead of the curve. Learn how to... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7988
Mar 12, 2011 at 11:00am Collection by WilloToons
A funny thing happened last spring: Netflix let me build the front end for their iPhone product. Yeah. Me. The punk-rock-API guy. The initial conversation went something like this: Netflix: "It's five weeks to WWDC. We've got Mobile Safari, our open APIs, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." Me: "Hit it." http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5519
Mar 12, 2011 at 12:30pm Collection by Kent Brewster
Augmented Reality (AR), is an emerging technology that allows for digital images and information to be overlaid on smartphone screens or computer monitors. While still an emerging technology, many major players in retail and technology are executing successful AR campaigns... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP6340
Mar 12, 2011 at 5:00pm Collection by Keepstream
Ever wonder why Google isn't very helpful in finding something fun to do tonight? Search engines have gotten really good at finding information that literally matches our keywords, but they fall short when our needs and priorities are either hard to express or hard to match directly to the target content... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5738
Mar 12, 2011 at 5:00pm Collection by Keepstream
Xbox Kinect has demonstrated the commercial reality of gesture interface in the home gaming environment. Advancements in sensing and projection technology in mobile devices are potentially setting the stage for pocket-based Minority Report gesture interaction. Absent the limits of one-user/one-device two-dimensional hardware interfaces... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5716
Mar 13, 2011 at 11:00am Collection by Keepstream
Social media applications encounter messy user-generated data in blog posts, status updates, tweets, user profiles, etc. These documents contain free-form text that obeys no particular rules of grammar, punctuation or spelling. If the data is so messy, how can a computer program recognize... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7209
Mar 14, 2011 at 9:30am Collection by Bruce Smith
At kids soccer games around the country, hyperconnected Dads tweet about trivia to pass the time. Meanwhile, as you walk into a supposedly social event, people all around you pull out their devices to "check in" on Foursquare or Gowalla. Through the night, people continue sharing their real feelings and thoughts... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP6538
Mar 14, 2011 at 9:30am Collection by Keepstream
Google, via its rich snippets, has reported that microformats has a 94% usage share (as compared with RDFa etc.). So how does the future look for microformats? In this session, we'll look closely at real problems with implementing microformats in HTML5 and how this can be done... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5584
Mar 14, 2011 at 3:30pm Collection by Keepstream
The great democratization called crowd-sourcing is quickly becoming a debilitating hurdle for innovation. Without an understanding of how to use public opinion, C-suite officers are ditching vision and conviction and risk turning critical business decisions into popularity contests... http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP000295
Mar 15, 2011 at 11:00am Collection by Keepstream
