Greg went to SXSWi 2009 and these are the takeaways he brought back to The Motley Fool.

1. SXSW Takeaways
Learnings and ideas from the South by Southwest Interactive Conference.
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2. What Users Want

3. People are remarkably bad at predicting their own behavior.
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4. People don’t come to your site to stay, they come to your site to leave.
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5. Turn beginners into intermediates immediately
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6. Building Community

7. Small Simple Tasks
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8. What’s in it for the user?
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9. Map the customer as the center of the organization
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10. Typography & Brand

11. How would we package it?
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12. Best typographers don’t think about what font to use,
rather how to use that font.
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13. How recognizable is our branding?
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14. Design & Development

15. Consumer Library || Developer Framework
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16. Could our sites load faster?
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17. Using scenarios for better brainstorming
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18. What are our Design Principles?
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19. The Road Ahead

20. Here comes Twitter
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21. Our grandchildren will know every thing we ever did.
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22. Who will be our trust agents?
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23. Targeting ads to your friends based on your purchases.
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24. What If > What Is
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25. Three more months work.
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26. We’re all learning together
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