Day Two of SXSW
My day 2 started slowly, most likely because of the late night the evening before.
- Eric Meyer’s “Emergent Semantics” session was an interesting talk about something him and his colleagues call microformats. I don’t know the detail or the full background, but XFN is an example he gave.
- Others he discussed were hCalendar and hCard, XHTML versions of vCard and iCalendar.
- The big keynote of the day was Malcolm Gladwell and he was an excellent speaker. He mostly talked about certain instances in his books, but it was interesting to see.
- Next was the panel session on “How to be Beautiful: Hi-Fi Design with CSS” with Chris Schmitt, Molly Holzschlag, Doug Bowman, Dan Cederholm and Dave Shea. Most of it was fairly introductory, but it was interesting.
- Tantek’s session on “The Elements of Meaningful XHTML” carried on where Eric’s left off and he went into a little more detail about microformats.
- The final session of the day was “How to Grow Online Community” but it wasn’t quite what I expected. It seemed to be mostly about how Metafilter and Craigslist were built and what sort of successes/problems they’ve had.
- In the evening I saw most of the SXSW Web awards, had dinner with a bunch of folks (I can remember Taylor McKnight, Andy Budd, Andy Clark, Jeremy Keith, Elsa Kawai, Sergio Villarreal, Jon Hicks, Joe Clark… there was a bunch of people), then ended up at the Pluck Awards After Party.
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