South by Southwest (SXSW: web, twitter) is like a rave party for tech, music and film but startups are the real stars (in particular of the “interactive” segment of SXSW). Twitter (2007) and Foursquare (2009) rose to fame there, as several other startups did over the last few years.
The SXSW Accelerator is a competition …
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South by Southwest Interactive (web, twitter) is probably the hottest event for people into digital business, Internet startups and what’s going to be the next killer app/online-service, etc. It features more than one thousand speakers over 5 days. The producers have managed to fill up such a busy agenda with quality content through a …
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Austin’s annual South By Southwest Interactive conference is bigger and glitzier than ever. Physically and virtually–even though it seems more fragmented this year.
But that’s not to say that it’s not full of lines and crowds as usual at SXSW.
Organizers of event, which started Friday and runs through Tuesday, said they expect a 30 to …
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Wired’s SXSW crew has pieced together a survival kit consisting of a handful of mobile apps designed to keep you on time, in the know and entertained.
Some are specific to the annual conference in Austin, Texas, which in past years has served as a launch pad for Twitter and other heavy hitters. Others will serve …
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I’m now in Austin, Texas, a city that morphs into a huge city-venue to host both the official and unofficial events around South by Southwest.
Today (March 11th) I’ll be speaking in the How to Rawk SXSW panel together with Christine Auten, jbrotherlove, Kris Krug, Mark Couvillion and Neil Petty. (I hope not to disappoint: my new …
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A creative way to bring back printed photos to events (will be popping up in several locations at SXSW 2011).
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The world of advertising is rapidly being transformed by new ways of engaging with consumers through novel storytelling over different platforms (on and off-line). I firmly believe that conferences should follow a similar trend in order to upgrade their experiences. To learn more about how to do this I met Dan Hon (blog, Twitter, …
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Your vote can take me to SXSW! South by Southwest, the festival dedicated to music, film and interactive technology, gives the opportunity to members of the community to propose panel sessions that will be then exposed to a ponderated voting round by the staff (30% weight on the final decision), the board (40%) and …
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Conference delegates, especially in tech events, are nowadays armed with at least one of the following: a mobile phone or smartphone, a laptop, a digital photo or video-camera and – soon soon enough- a tablet (welcome iPad!). The elevated number of gadgets per capita in use at an these events makes it a common …
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