Special thanks to our 2006 Interactive Media Partners, helping to enhance the SXSW Interactive experience. If your company represents cutting-edge technology, innovation, or the blogging community at large and you are interested in becoming a SXSW Interactive media partner, contact Amy Kugali at amy@sxsw.com ?
 BlogHer
BlogHer creates opportunities for all kinds of women bloggers to pursue exposure, education, and community. We do this via a yearly conference, held this year in the Bay Area, and through our community Website (launching in early February, 2006) provides a blog surfing guide, blogging directory, and news and updates for the women's online community. You can visit the BlogHer Web site at www.blogher.org.
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 Creative Behavior Magazine
Creative Behavior created in August 2001. The main idea is to provide information for new media designers, graphic designers, creative people, and also to any of you who take a keen interest in the area of creative industry and its aspects. We also would like to see designers throughout the world sharing their ideas, knowledge and inspiration.
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 ETECH: O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, frames the ideas, projects, and technologies from innovators and lead users into a coherent picture to learn from and build on. ETech 2006 brings a thousand creative spirits and open minds together to dig into the idea of the "Attention Economy": How can we filter, access, visualize, and remix the immense amount of digital data now flooding our lives? The coming technical challenge is not about generating content, but doing something meaningful with it. ETech happens March 6-9, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California.
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 FITC Design & Technology Festival
FITC has three goals - to INSPIRE, to EDUCATE, and to CHALLENGE, all within the Design & Technology space. This is accomplished by assembling the leaders and shakers within the industry, and presenting them through presentations, panels, Q&A sessions, workshops, evening mixers, and the FITC Design & Technology award show.
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 Flashforward Conference & Film Festival
Flashforward is the world's first, largest and most renowned conference focusing on Macromedia Flash?. Since its inception 6 years ago, more than 20,000 professionals in the industries of design, interactivity, animation, video, and motion graphics have attended 14 events in cities such as San Francisco, New York, Amsterdam and London. The Flashforward Film Festival takes place in conjunction with the conference, and showcases the most innovative and cutting-edge Flash techniques throughout the world.
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 Geek Dinner London
Geek Dinner's are a growing phenomenon on a global scale. The term "geek" has literally been redefined. Geek Dinner London was setup by Lee Wilkins in true networking style, to bring together a huge community of like-minded individuals in order to share knowledge, code and contacts. And what a better way to do then by meeting over a few chardonnays
and some grub. Over the past 12 months our special guests have also included the infamous Robert Scoble [twice!], Tim O'Reilly, Jeremy Zawodny, Seth Godin, Molly Holzschlag, Dave Shea, and a special Microsoft Event hosted by Sean
Alexander. So, if your in London Town and want to meet like-minded individuals then drop by Geek Dinner London.
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 Metroblogging
With over 40 active sites, Metroblogging is the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web. From San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what's going on in the city. Our hand-picked core of regional bloggers give each site a new perspective on daily life; less calendar listings, more friendly advice. With Metblogs, you can read about life and times in your neighborhood, your favorite places to visit, places where you've never been, or get a feel for them all with the daily "best of" blog on the hub at metroblogging.com.
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 MIX: Building the Next Web Now
LIVE IN VEGAS. MARCH 20-22. Microsoft's new MIX conference is for developers, designers and business professionals who create consumer-oriented web sites. MIX is a 72-hour conversation about enhancing Web-based customer interactions. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear Bill Gates, Tim O'Reilly and other industry leaders talk about the new and unique experiences that can be delivered over the Web. MIX will focus on IE7, Windows Vista, Windows Media Center & Xbox 360, InfoCard, Windows Presentation Foundation, the Atlas AJAX framework and Windows Live!
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 Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails Workshops is a comprehensive calendar of relevant workshops, conferences, and seminars all over the globe. Featuring Rails rockstars David Heinemeier Hansson, Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, and others. Find a workshop happening near you or request one!.
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 SuperHappyDevHouse
SuperHappyDevHouse has become the SF Bay Area's premier monthly hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. We're about rapid development, ad-hoc collaboration, and cross pollination. It's a non-exclusive event intended for passionate and creative technical people that want to have some fun, learn new things, and meet new people.
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 Supernova
The Supernova conference is organized each year by Kevin Werbach, in partnership with The Wharton School. It brings together top influencers to address the business and social implications of our increasingly connected world, cutting across Internet-based services, telecommunications, digital media, public policy, and business strategy. Each year, over 350 business and technology leaders converge to impart practical knowledge in a series of workshops at Wharton West as well as participate in a highly interactive 2-day summit where the latest critical trends are explored.
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 The Morning News
The Morning News is a leading independent online magazine, publishing a variety of daily features since 1999. As strong as your daily cup of coffee, what's on top includes a mix of uproarious humor, intelligent opinions, insightful photo and illustration galleries, and smart personal essays.
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 Technology Bytes
Technology Bytes, a computer/technology call in show, is broadcast live every Wednesday night from 7:00 - 9:00 pm Central Time on 90.1 FM KPFT, a Pacifica station, in Houston, Texas and 89.5 FM KPFT in Galveston, Texas. The show is also available as a live stream, MP3 download and even in podcast from.
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 Valleywag
Valleywag is a tech gossip rag. You people in Silicon Valley are far too busy changing the world to care about sex, greed and hypocrisy. But if you ever need a break, come visit us at Valleywag.
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 Webstock
Webstock is a four-day web experience: two days of intensive workshops, followed by a two-day conference. The aim: to improve how websites are built through inspiration, education, insightful analysis and practical application. Webstock will have a uniquely New Zealand feel, and in the spirit of one of the greatest mind-expanding festivals ever known, there'll be inspiration and horizon broadening galore, and fun and merriment aplenty! Speakers at Webstock include: Joel Spolsky, Kathy Sierra, Kelly Goto, Steve Champeon and Ben Goodger.
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