In the coming days I’ll highlight a couple ideas that other people submitted that I would love to see at SXSW 2010, but I’ll start with a couple I submitted.

If you’re read past posts about my thinking behind personal APIs, you’re probably tired of the idea. But if you’re interested in helping develop the idea and learning more, click here to vote to continue the discussion at SXSW 2010. If you’re not interested, please comment below to start the conversation.

How will collaboration methods improve by evolving beyond sharing information and toward exchanging value? Developing “personal APIs” as modularized, standardized interfaces to access, retrieve and manipulate individuals’ valuable content and context will reduce interaction transaction costs and unlock better methods for collaboration.

What will the conversation cover?

• What is an API?
• What is a “personal API”?
• How to we currently create, share, publish and broadcast information?
• How do we currently exchange value through collaboration?
• Is more information creating more noise and making it harder to find signals and effectively collaborate?
• How are APIs driving web service development? (e.g. how and why are web mashups valuable?)
• How can we structure the content and context (information and knowledge, respectively) of our lives?
• How can we publish that structure via an API?
• What tools currently exist that are showing the path towards “personal APIs?
• What tools could emerge in the next 5-10-15 years that could fulfill the promise of “personal APIs”?

If you’re interested in seeing this at SXSW 2010, click here now to comment and vote for for this panel. Your vote counts.

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Related

• First thoughts about “personal APIs”: from April 16, Developing “personal APIs” will be the key to scaling collaboration, and from May 7th, A “Personal API” could be a modularized, standardized interface for collaboration.
• Matthew Ward’s interpretation of the personal API concept.
• My core conversation from SXSW 2009, Venture Capital for the Long Tail: Trends in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (SXSW 2009)
• My other panel submission for SXSW 2010: Everyone can be a *professional* photographer.

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Hugh Forrest gets credit for the panel title. My original title was kind lame :)