SXSW
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South By Southwest Interactive 2011 – Wrapping Up
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Wrapping up – South By Southwest 2011. SXSW this year was crazy – more forums, panels, speakers, meetings, shmoozing, happy hours, parties and concerts than could reasonably be handled in a single week. But I tried to do as much as I could, and had a great time in the process. Here’s an itemized account…
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SXSW Wrapup: QR Codes Everywhere
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This year at South By Southwest Interactive, QR Codes – high resolution barcodes used to deliver web addresses and other data to mobile phones by way of scanning with a phones built in camera – were EVERYWHERE. Amidst the seas of catchy flyers, posters, leaflets, coasters, handouts and stickers, almost everything had a QR code…
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The Egg Drop at Ignite Austin during SXSW
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This year at South by Southwest, I attended the Ignite Austin event, with the whole Morpheus Media crew. Ignite is a get together that features fast paced 5 minute mini lectures. Each presenter gets 5 minutes, and 20 slides, which auto advance. Presenters can, and do, talk about anything they want, and the crazy fast…
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SXSW Panel – Voices From The HTML5 Trenches: Browser Wars IV
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Panel – Voices From The HTML5 Trenches: Browser Wars IV Summary: The term HTML5 now refers to the much-hyped kitchen sink of the web. It covers *everything* including things not officially part of the HTML5 specification. Yet “HTML5” is now the catch phrase to describe the new wave of platform competition on the web, and…
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SXSW Dual – Touching Stories: Designing Digital Magazines for the iPad
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SXSW Dual – Touching Stories: Designing Digital Magazines for the iPad Summary: The launch of the iPad signaled the start of a new era for magazine publishing. A single device that delivered the fidelity of print and the interactivity of the Web, all wrapped up in a fun and easy-to-use form factor gave the industry…
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SXSW Panel – Moving the Web onto Mobile Devices
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Panel – Moving the Web onto Mobile Devices Summary: Take a look at how the complexity of design has increased exponentially with the web moving onto today’s mobile devices. There are so many more considerations when thinking about a design or a campaign that go beyond the basic, “who is my target audience….how do I…
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SXSW Future15 – NFC and RFID, How It Will Change Mobile
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Future15 – NFC and RFID, How It Will Change Mobile, presented by David Berkowitz, Sr Dir of Emerging Media, 360i Summary: How Near Field Communication (NFC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) will change the wireless industry, user experiences, marketing, and shopping. Mobile phones a now being looked as a ubiquitous device that plays an increasingly…
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SXSW Panel – Japanese Mobile Leaders Forum
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Panel – Japanese Mobile Leaders Forum Summary: “Japan” “Mobile” “Social Media” – what do you see when you have these words together? Cyber utopia? Shrinking Galapagos? Ninjas with high-tech swords? It’s about time we know what the real scenes are in Japan. With the leaders of the mobile social media in Japan, we will discuss…
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SXSW Solo – The 2011 Open Architecture Challenge: Revisioning Decommisioned Military Facilities/Design Like You Give A Damn
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Solo – The 2011 Open Architecture Challenge: Revisioning Decommisioned Military Facilities presented by Cameron Sinclair, Chief Eternal Optimist, Architecture for Humanity Summary: Every two years Architecture for Humanity changes the design world to tackle a global project. In 2005 we looked at health care delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2007 looked to develop digital inclusion…
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SXSW Keynote: Christopher Poole
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Keynote: Christopher Poole, Founder, 4chan/Canvas Bio: Christopher “moot” Poole is the founder of 4chan.org, a simple image-based bulletin board, which has grown from a niche site targeting anime fans to one of the most influential communities on the ‘Net. With over 12 million unique visitors per month, many popular viral videos, Internet phenomena, and memes…
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SXSW Panel – Big in Japan: Outreaching to a Unique Market
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Panel – Big in Japan: Outreaching to a Unique Market Japan has ubiquitous high-speed coverage and a voracious appetite for tech gadgets, however, their tools have developed with entirely different features than other countries. For example: Japan’s “”Galapo-phones”” commonly include streaming TV and multi-character sets, Mixii and Gree each have more than 30 million users…
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SXSW Solo – Web Anywhere: Mobile Optimisation With HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
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Solo – Web Anywhere: Mobile Optimisation With HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript presented by Bruce Lawson, Web Evangelist, Opera Software Summary: Web apps, mobile phone apps, websites that work anywhere, SVG, HTML5, Widgets, location-aware sites, Media Queries. Beyond the buzzword assault is a revolution in the way sites are made, what they can do, and how they…
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SXSW Solo – Behind the Curtain: Secrets of Mobile Application Wizardry
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Solo – Behind the Curtain: Secrets of Mobile Application Wizardry presented by Paul Gelb, VP, Mobile Practice Lead, Razorfish Summary: A jaw dropping 80% of iPhone and Android apps have hardly any active users. Tens of thousands of developers and hundreds of thousands of mobile applications have gotten it wrong. But mobile apps done right…
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SXSW Panel – Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization
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Panel – Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization moderated by Adam Rabinowitz, Asst ProfessorUniversity of Texas Summary: Displaying geography alone is easy: interactive maps are more and more a part of our everyday lives. Displaying time alone is easy: we are all familiar with charts and animations that show the passage of time. It is increasingly…
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SXSW Panel – U.S. Military’s Mad Science Revealed
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Panel – U.S. Military’s Mad Science Revealed, presented by Christie Nicholson and John Pavlus Summary: For more than 50 years the mad scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—aka DARPA, the outrageous research arm of the Pentagon—have been launching the most disruptive technologies on earth, living up to their mantra of “high risk—high payoff.”…
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SXSW Solo – Thin is In. The Future of Digital Wallets
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Solo – Thin is In. The Future of Digital Wallets, presented by Christina Nguyen White, User Experience Designer, SapientNitro Summary: The growing hole in your back jeans pocket is getting a bit too personal. No need to swipe anymore. Just scan. When can we get rid of our wallets without losing the cash? We know…
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SXSW Panel: Rebooting Iceland – Crowdsourcing Innovation in Uncertain Times
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This week I’m going to be taking notes in SXSW talks by way of my blog. Here’s some brief notes from: Rebooting Iceland: Crowdsourcing Innovation in Uncertain Times
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Sweater Trees at University of Texas
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Yesterday while biking from my place north of the UT campus down to pick up my SXSW Badge, I found an amazing stand of Sweater Trees. Usually these are seen one by one, but here there are entire forests of them…
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Linking Foursquare With… My American Express Card?
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Yes, it’s true, AMEX is doing a big promo with Foursquare for South by Southwest this year. Sign up and link your amex card with your Foursquare account, and get bonuses. That’s great for now, but is just a small first step in a much larger revolution – connecting our wallets together with our location,…
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Infographic: SXSW By The Numbers
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I suppose this week I’m becoming one of these numbers. Here’s an interesting infographic from Get Satisfaction on the numbers for SXSW.
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Staying Organized at SXSW
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So many panels, forums, talks, meetups, tweetups, parties, BBQs, pool parties and runs, so little time. This week I’ll be running around like crazy at SXSW. South by Southwest is huge, and at any given moment there seems to be 100 different events taking place, all over town. To stay organized and on track, I’m…
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Social Networks I’m Using At SXSW
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The South by Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conference is coming up this week, and I’ll be going down to Austin to attend. Let me know if you’ll be there too! Social media and networking is HUGE at thisthis mega-conference, and in preparation, a bunch of new networks and apps have launched, along with a…