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Updates: SXSW Interactive continues slow roll toward March 2012 gigantitude

Jeffrey Zeldman. Photo by Tony Quartarolo, via SXSW.com
South by Southwest Interactive 2012 news continues to trickle out like chocolate from a … chocolate fountain? Here are some of the highlights:
- The festival has announced that it will award its first-ever Hall of Fame Award to Jeffrey Zeldman, a web design standard pioneer. The award will be given on March 13 at the Interactive Web Awards.
- Speaking of which, the deadline for submissions for those awards is Friday.
- Ditto the SXSW Accelerator. Friday deadline. Sometimes these deadlines are extended, but better safe than sorry if you’re serious about putting your application through.
- Dropbox founder Drew Houston has been added to the feature speaker lineup.
- Game design guru Katie Salen has also been added to the lineup. You can read an interview with her on the SXSW site.
- The deadline for LAUNCHedu company submissions is Dec. 2.
Got all that? See you in March.
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