Best of SXSW Interactive Press 2007

"Two worlds collided at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival this week. Online media of all sorts is coming of age, and the festival was one of its biggest defining moments. The event aims to bring together new technologies and their practitioners to spur innovation."

"SXSW Interactive runs March 9-13, and offers computer enthusiasts of every stripe a chance to catch up with high-tech trends and meet the people coming up with the innovations that will shape our technology in the years to come."

"The lines may stretch around the block at theaters hosting South by Southwest film screenings, but the big buzz is what's happening on the small screen. Just a glance at the SXSW Interactive Festival's panels signals the obsession with user-generated content."

"Attendees from all three disciplines -- film, music and interactive -- are mingling as never before, with SXSW's panels and programming uniquely poised among fests to address convergence in those industries."

"Even with its slightly more rarefied appeal, SXSW Interactive still manages to deliver all of the excitement and surprises of its sister festivals."

"This is without a doubt the event that you should try and get to—not even for the panels (I enjoyed a great deal of what I saw, but some of it was definitely average) but for the networking opportunities. Nowhere else will you have so many opportunities to pick the brains of and share a pint with the thinkers and the doers of the Web. The relationships you build at events like these are not only rewarding, they can be invaluable."

"The (SXSW) interactive conference, now in its 14th year, has become one of the industry's proving grounds for new technology innovations."

"Music and Film are always going to be about music and film. SXSW Interactive is about what is happening now, and what’s happening now is different than what was happening a year ago, and very different than what was happening just five years ago."

"SXSW Interactive also takes the stage to shine the spotlight on some of the visionary entrepreneurs and developers in the technology landscape."

"Attending SXSW Interactive not only tunes us in to web trends and ideas we may have missed, it also makes clear where we are in the life cycle of developments with which we are familiar."