Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Identity in Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

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Sunday 11th March 2012

• On the Internet, Everyone Knows You're a Dog

  by Heather Champ, Michael Sippey, Rick Webb, Ted Rheingold and Jessica Zollman

  As former Representative Anthony Weiner discovered the hard way, remaining anonymous in this hyper-social world is becoming nearlyimpossible. But what sucks for Anthony Wiener has been great for conversations on the Web – with the rise of authenticated platforms, anonymous comments and posts are giving way to real dialogs between authors and their audiences.
  For example, when comments on popular sites like TechCrunch became tied to real Facebook profiles, the experience went from a juvenile insult-fest to a civil value-add information exchange. There’s undoubtedly progress to be made, but authentication and social platforms are giving us a glimpse of what the future holds: low friction ways to connect your opinion to a piece of content, easier ways to see what your friends care about, and better ways to insert your POV.
  For better or worse, it’s becoming harder to remain anonymous online. In this panel discussion, we will discuss how technology is changing online self-expression.

  • Anonymity
  • Identity
  • Privacy

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Capitol A-D, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

Tuesday 13th March 2012

• Creating an Internet of Entities

  by Drew Vogel, George Oates, Pete Warden and Tyler Bell

  The Internet today consists of a morass of partial and redundant content: the ~17m businesses and POI in the US, for example, are duplicated over 1.2 billion website across over 5 million domains. This tangle of duplicate, fragmentary, and often incorrect information ensures that unequivocally identifying a person, place or thing on the Internet will always be a challenge. The members of this panel are working to fix this, and will discuss their projects in the Library, Government, and Big Data sectors to create an Internet where real-world people, places, and things can be referenced unambiguously. It focuses on pragmatic, real-world examples: the panelists from Factual, the Sunlight Foundation, Jetpac, and the Internet Archive each highlight their specific experiences in creating platforms and apps that identify and disambiguate individual entities across applications and verticals, and describe both the pitfalls and benefits of working towards an Internet of Entities.

  • Identity
  • Internet of Things
  • Libraries
  • sxswLAM
  • URLs

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Creekside I & II, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

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