So you have some feeds and you want to track subscriptions using FeedBurner. The problem? FeedBurner is a great service and probably will stay that way since it was recently acuired by google. However, it is still a 3rd-party service and that’s somthing you should always be worried about. You see, when someone subscribes to […]

Problem Our foundation has a great little video produced by an outside complany and they want us to put it online, but… We require that all online video includes captioning for accessibility (dfxp format) and… They only have a DVD of the video with captions (not original text). Solution Well we could re-transcribe the video, […]

Or, it would be – if 2 million people weren’t trying to download it all at once. For weeks the good people at mozilla have been pushing today as “World Download Day”. They even had a site where they asked people to pledge to download, all in the hopes of setting a world record. Early […]

Jeffery Veen Second (and final keynote) …but first some props to the board… The Past First spoke at WebVisions 5 years ago in 2003. Worked at HotWIre 16 years ago. Then onto adaptive path for measure map. Bought by google where he worked on the great analytics. 3 weeks ago he split from Google…. Now […]

Tjeed Hoek I actually ended up in this session by chance. My original choose “Designing Social Media Interfaces” was scheduled for this room, but was canceled. But, no regrets. Tjeed seems like an interesting speaker (just look at that dreamy photo :) FrogDesign Tjeed works at frog design. Started as a typical physical design company […]

Andy Baio Trip back to 1996 (Mr T ate my balls website). Creator just thought it was funny at the time. Linked to yahoo, that at the time had a list of 300 “ate my balls” pages” New kind of ingenious stupidity – welcome to the meme. Not a huge leap to this! 18M Americans […]

Christopher Schmitt Wait I have his book! CSS cookbook Expectations limit design Browsers limit design (each has its own internal stylesheet) Then a great story about an interview with Apple and a “hard” question. It all boils down to designing the American flag with CSS (which was something he had, by chance, done previously). Semantic […]

Gene smith nForm (user expert consultant ) blogger author. Voodoo Donuts = donut porn When was metadata invented? As soon as or before the first data. Even culture that never developed written language still used matadata – Incas Railroads in 1900s drove advancements in metadata. Filing cabnets virtical filing and tabs really changes record keeping […]

Lynne d Johnson Introductions…. Lynne is the Lynne is the Senior Editor and Community Director for FastCompany.com. She has written for vibe and is always part of SXSW. She starts by noting that the keynote is at the end of the day where everyone is tired and saturated – “so I better be exciting!” People […]

James Keller & Sean Cowne A new approach to web design. It all starts with a quiz: Product demo – best UI? animaion + 100 words text animation + voice and 100 words (my guess) animation + voice … but they won’t tell us until end… Some Definitions IA (information architecture) – is the art […]