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SouthyBy starts today, and already the Tweeting is on the wall. Like Twitter and Foursquare, in 2006 and 2009 respectively, Tweet-a-Beer is about to capture the attention of SXSW Interactive Conference attendees, and vault from sketch-on-a-napkin status to full on nerd culture hit. By the way, the Portland-based makers of this new app owe me a beer for that lead, but I digress... Brewed and bottled by …
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"You're either on the bus, or off the bus." -Merry Pranksters Right now, bus loads of hopeful bootstrappers are making their way to Austin for SXSW. And by busloads, I mean busloads, thanks to the ingenuity of one Elias Bizannes, founder StartupBus. Here's a look at the goings on from a StartupBus to Paris last year: Now for the North American version...At this time, geeks with dreams are motoring in …
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Scott Belsky, Founder & CEO Behance, gathered his thoughts following his trip to Austin for SXSW earlier this month. Writing for OPEN Forum, Belsky says he appreciated AOL's booth where they curated news. Score one for branded utility. Belsky (who I heard from at Big Omaha last May) also says "the future of advertising" was a hot topic in Austin this year. With brands in the hands of the people, a new genre …
Are you fatigued buy all the SouthBy coverage on this site and others? I ask because there's more than one week's worth of content nuggets to unearth. For instance, Pelpina Trip of WebBeat.TV spoke to Richard MacManus, founder of ReadWriteWeb about his team's use of Beluga's group messaging service, and about Marshall Kirkpatrick's breaking story regarding the eminent, but still unannounced, launch of Google …
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Holly Hoffman of Corpus Christi is the cofounder and chief inspiration officer of Neovia Solutions, an interactive agency known for its teaching component. She's also an avid note taker at South By Southwest Interactive panels, a fact which I found particularly helpful given that I did not attend the conference this year. Mid-tweet last weekend, I asked Hoffman to recap a slice of her experience at the conference for …
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Caroline McCarthy of CNET listened to IAC founder and Chairman Barry Diller speak at South by Southwest on Monday. She says Diller provided "a bit of blunt, curmudgeonly insight for a conference best-known as a hub of the young, wide-eyed, and exuberant." Diller was asked on stage about the presence of a tech bubble. "Well, we're puffing it up pretty nicely," Diller said, calling the multibillion-dollar …
IFC is streaming live interviews from its Crossroads House at SXSW. Frank Rose of Wired.com and author of Art of Immersion sat for one such interview. I'm not sure who the interviewer is here, but I am sure that he upstages Rose. Speaking of gaming, ReadWriteWeb has an interesting piece about how game mechanics will solve global warming. SCVNGR CEO Seth Priebatsch said from the SouthBy stage …
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If there was ever a time and place for an Apple pop up store, it's 6th Street in Austin this weekend. According to The Statesman, a team from Apple rolled in to town last Monday, picked their favorite location, signed a two week lease with Plat.Form Real Estate, and set about retrofitting 5,000-square-feet of space in the classic Scarbrough Building at Congress and West Sixth Street. Daniel Terdiman, …
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