Facebook Developers Invading Austin for SxSW

Julia Lam, who manages Facebook Developer events worldwide, outlined the schedule of speakers from the social-networking site at the upcoming South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas March 12-21, in a post on the Facebook Developers Blog.

Lam also noted that the Facebook Developer Garage will be available via live streaming Sunday, March 14, at 2 p.m. CT.

Facebook’s SxSW schedule (all times CT), with its representative(s) at each respective event:
• Friday, March 12, 5 p.m., Securing Web Behemoths — Web Applications That Are Large, Ryan McGeehan
• Saturday, March 13, 12:30 p.m., Designing the First Fifteen Minutes, Rob Goodlatte
• Saturday, March 13, 10 p.m., OK! Happy Cog’aoke, sponsored by the Facebook Design team
• Sunday, March 14, 9:30 a.m., Beyond LAMP: Scaling Websites Past MySQL, Serkan Piantino
• Sunday, March 14, 9:30 a.m., Social Games: Lessons from the Pioneers, Gareth Davis
• Sunday, March 14, 9:30 a.m., From Right-to-Left: Entrepreneurship and the Middle East, Sacha Tueni
• Sunday, March 14, 12:30 p.m., CrowdControl: Changing the Face of Media or Hype?, Randi Zuckerberg
• Sunday, March 14, 2 p.m., Facebook Developer Garage Austin, Facebook team and developer community, including representatives from Playfish, Seesmic, Gowalla, and PopCap Games
• Tuesday, March 16, 2 p.m., Mobile Content Is Social: A SXSW Workshop, Michael Sharon and Tom Watson
• Wednesday, March 17, 2 p.m., Social Networks and the Future for Musicians, Raquel DiSabatino

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