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With so many people and companies vying for attention at SXSW, how can an agency formed in the 19th century possibly stand out and promote its brand? With famous local food, that's free—that's how! Oh, with a twisted animated video, as well (vegans please look away): Tonight and tomorrow night from 10:00 pm to 2:00 am, JWT will deliver Salt Lick BBQ from their rented truck to hungry festival goers who send …
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Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch was sick of South By Southwest before the conference even started. Because it's a club. A clique. A shit show. This SXSW 2011 Influencers Guide, a mashup of Plancast and some shady thing called Socmetrics, is the epitome of why I’m already sick of SXSW four days before it’s even started. Mainly because it reminds me that we’re now viewing each other as “influencers” and have …
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The more I read from writer, artist and coder Jonathan Harris, the more I like the guy. He's a humanist and the world is in desperate need of humanists, now as ever. In a piece on his site about how he looses touch with his humanity when deep inside a coding project, he shares a conversation he had with a friend about her experience this year at SXSW. She described a sense of euphoria there among them -- an excited …
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South By Southwest Interactive wrapped up on Tuesday, and there's mixed opinion on the conference's enduring value. Jolie O'Dell, who just announced she is leaving her job at Read Write Web, says SXSW sucks and she won't be going back for more. This year, I spent most of my time trying to avoid being harassed, maligned, groped, ogled and threatened by the masses of people - I'm hearing 40% more than last year - who …
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Gary Vaynerchuk was prank called at 5:00 am while in Austin for SXSW. Listen to how he handles it. The dude is quick. Vaynerchuk says, "What I think is interesting here is we now live in a very transparent world and every interaction maybe recorded. The question is, if I handled this differently would it have impacted how some may look at me?" The video was posted to YouTube by lalawag, a Los Angeles-based tech …
I feel Brogan's pain here. No one wants to be used. Plus, the whole idea of limited access (to a party in this case) runs counter to one of the Web's main attributes. …
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The Wall Street Journal addresses the buzz around location-based services at SXSW this weekend. According to the Journal: Foursquare, which launched last year at SXSW, has 16 new badges that users can collect as they check in at different places around Austin. The service updated its iPhone app in time for the conference and has teamed up with PayPal and Microsoft to raise money for Save the Children's Haiti fund …
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Microsoft's needed a way to showcase its Expression Studio and Silverlight products and sell them as integral to the creative process. So they came up with the PhizzPop Online Design Challenge and PhizzPop Tour. When the tour came to Minneapolis, Zeus Jones stepped up and won the local competition, a fact which led them to compete and win again in Austin at the PhizzPop nationals. Zeus Jones Phizzpop SXSW Finale from …
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