We’ll be out in force at SXSW Interactive this weekend. In addition to sponsoring BarCamp Austin III, we’ll also be busy on the floor at our booth (stop by for some cool SWAG!) we’ll also be roaming around the conference and all over Austin doing video interviews with attendees about things happening on the Open Web.

There are a lot of questions on people’s minds with respect to the Open Web. Why should we care about these open technologies like OpenID, OAuth, microformats and others? What exactly does data portability mean to me? As we get more and more of our data on-line, how are we going to protect, control and manage it over time? Is portable social networking even a possibility?

We’re hoping to simply participate in the conversations and offer up some real-world thoughts on what matters to users and the technorati involved. If you’re interested in being interviewed, just direct message me on Twitter.

Don’t forget to come by for the fantastic post-BarCamp Austin party happening on Saturday night around 8pm … whurley tells me of some very fun things afoot … I’ll be twittering like mad during all of SXSW so feel free to stay tuned there and follow the interviews and posts here.

Hope to see you in Austin! Yee-haw!!

Update: More on our interview plans … see ya there!