As of September 2, Panel Picker voting is closed. You can, however, still leave comments on the proposals you find interesting. We will announce the first set of accepted panels on Thursday, October 2. Stay tuned to the SXSW Interactive Festival website for these announcements, or e-mail us if you have questions.
The building blocks for portable social networks already exist. OpenID, microformats and Oauth let us build open, user controlled networks. We'll talk about why this is good for users, how to actually put these building blocks in place and why portable social networks will ultimately be very good for business.