Bummed I’m not out at SXSW Interactive, so I’ve been digging up all the notes & videos I can find of 2012 SXSW Interactive talks. Here’s what I’ve found so far. I imagine much more will surface in the next few days and weeks.

3/13 update: I’ve found a butt-load of SXSWi 2012 media tonight and updated this post accordingly.

Long Vids of Talks

• Steve Blank, Lean Startup
• Google Devs Lightening Talks
• LeVar Burton’s SXSWedu keynote (50 mins)

Short Vids of Talks

• sean parker on politics & technology
• al gore on politics and technology

Full Audio

• How 21st Century Tools Are Disrupting Global Power
• Design from the Gut: Dangerous or Differentiator?
• Steve Rosenbaum, The Cloud as Skynet: Conquering Digital Overload
• The Concrete Jungle: Nature in an Urban Ecosystem
• Keeping Loyal Consumers Engaged by Shaking Sh*t Up
• Startup Marketing: Big Results with a Small Budget
• Unstuck: Get (and Keep) Your Creativity Flowing
• HTML5 and CSS3: Does Now Really Mean Now?
• HTML5 APIs Will Change the Web: And Your Designs

Notes

• Laura Creekmore’s notes
• Ogilvy drawings & abstracts
• apogee – brands as patterns session notes
• lots of talk slides & abstracts
• sean mcbride on css3 with @font-face
• Future of Lifestyle Media (notes)
• Daniel Slaughter on html5 (notes)
• The Future of HTML5 Motion Design (slides)

Interviews

• facebook platforms & timeline
• forest whitaker wants to crowdsource filmmaking
• ray kurzweil talks entrepreneurship, apps and education
• techcrunch videos (the above 2 and some more)
• Vic Gundotra and Guy Kawasaki on google+
• billy corgan on technology and the music industry
• ben huh on viral videos
• patrick forbes on “wikileaks: secrets & lies”
• Baratunde Thurston on Harvard
• Arne Duncan on tech and education
• Gary Vaynerchuk at the bloggers lounge
• Amber Case @ Bloggers Lounge
• Josh Clark, Buttons Are a Hack
• Guy Kawasaki @ Bloggers Lounge

2011 Stuff

While searching around, I found this cool intro to typography talk from SXSWi 2011

• Cure For The Common Font

Do you use flash banners or youtube flash embed code and sometimes use wmode transparent and z-index positioning to jazz things up and overlap HTML elements on top of your flash content? Then you’d better make sure you double check how your sites look on Android phones.

Z-index positioning using wmode transparent is currently broken on Android. A coworker found this link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4418115/android-flash-content-breaks-webview-boundings-and-overlaps-native-layout-eleme. On Android, your flash will be on top of your HTML content no matter what you do. I imagine Adobe or mobile browser developers will fix this soon, but right now there’s no z-index solution.

penguin & skull elements from eiko via iheartvector.com

Alternate working title: How to lose friends and alienate people.

Bored and was googling how to use javascript in the address bar tonight. Found this life changing gem, http://www.puremango.co.uk/2009/05/hacking-facebook/, which at the bottom mentions some cute emoticons you can use in facebook chat like (^^^) and <(") which render a little shark and penguin, respectively. I know, right!?

Now that your mind is well blown, for my grand finale I will demonstrate how to put smiley faces in the background of your facebook page. I know, just what your life was missing. When you're on facebook, copy and paste this entire line into your address bar and hit enter:

javascript:void(document.getElementById('contentCol').style.background='url("http://mcdermottsolutions.com/smiley.jpg")');

You're welcome.

Pretty harmless stuff. It's visible only to you and will disappear when you refresh the page or anything like that. Tested in firefox, ie8 & ie7.