Thursday, September 03, 2009 10:28 AM
by
alogan
What do you want to see @ SXSW? Future of Web Mail? Streams becoming Tidal waves? Vote it up
Here are some sessions for y’all to vote up at SXSW. It is easy! Just click the Thumbs Up and if you don’t have an account it will only take you a few seconds to create.
Web Mail - Is There Room Left to Innovate? (Web Mail)
Web mail has been around the block, and everybody’s got it. Its role may be narrowing to the place you manage online bills, shopping, travel, and photos with mom, with conversations migrating to social networks and IM, but companies are still pounding the digital pavement for new users. If web mail isn't going anywhere, where does it go from here? Vote Now
The Stream Has Become A Tidal Wave (Social Media)
The stream is overflowing. How do you make sure the stream is still useful when there is SO MUCH getting pushed into it? Vote Now
Social Network Interop (Open Standards)
Portable contacts, life streaming and various ‘Connect’ offerings have begun to break down the silos and walled gardens that are social networks. Come hear a panel of experts discuss some of the technologies, design issues and future direction of this trend. Vote Now
Securing Web Behemoths – Web Applications That Are Large (Security)
As the trend of ‘webifying’ continues, the smallness and simplicity of web applications will become a thing of the past. This raises the challenge of securing these web behemoths. An industry panel of Security engineering managers will discuss the approaches they use to secure their web behemoths. The attendees will gain awareness into the panelists’ security engineering programs & gain access to tools that they could apply at their companies. Vote Now
ActivityStrea.ms: Is It Getting Streamy In Here? (Open Stack)
From Facebook's newsfeed to Twitter's relentless real-time updates, the metaphor of the "stream" has taken social networking beyond blog posts and on to rich social activities. Learn about ActivityStrea.ms — the open format adopted by Facebook, MySpace, and Windows Live — and how it's fundamentally changing the social web. Vote Now
OpenID: Identity Is the Platform (Open Stack)
Ignore the hype over social networking platforms and web OS's! The platform of the social web is identity. Facebook and Twitter Connect are just the beginning of the era of user-centric identity. I'll go beyond the basics of OpenID and learn how to effectively incorporate internet identity into your apps. Vote Now
Standards - Handling "Zero Day" Exploits (Security)
The OAuth exploit last year was a catalyst for developing ways to deal with zero day security issues in open standards. No one vendor is responsible for managing the process, how do you determine responsible disclosure in an open forum? You can't hide from open standards, and you can't stick your head in the sand about security. You'll learn from the pain of others how using open standards just got safer... or did it? Vote Now
User Acquisition Smackdown: Email Raiding, Stream Polluting or Instant Messaging? (Social Media)
Getting people to your website is critical (D’uh!). New people. Old people. A constant flow of sharing and content discovery is required to succeed.Some people are sneaky using address books, others publish to the stream - which one is best? Vote Now
Running a Business on Open Standards (Open Standards)
This panel will discuss the different standards for social applications and how a developer can utilize those to build and grow a business. It will focus on monetizing the Open Stack, and how developers can build a sustainable business model using industry standards. Vote Now
Protecting Your Service from Internet Terrorism (Security)
Historically, the enemy launched their attacks from far away from populated areas – you could detect them and nuke the entire area. They are getting smarter, moving into apartment buildings and no one likes nuking apartment buildings. In this panel, leaders in internet service abuse prevention will invite you into the “situation room”. Vote Now