Archive for March 11th, 2012
Where to go? What to do? So much stuff, so little time. With 9 locations, countless sessions and topics and an impressive army of more than 2,600 speakers SXSW grew uncomfortably big. Just trying to log a doable schedule is good for a headache. How to you get to back-to-back sessions that are 20 minutes [...]
Nowadays, everyone can be a reporter. Every day, people all over the world post pictures, videos and comment online on what’s happening around them. Live events and breaking news are being covered more and more by regular citizens and are often faster than mainstream media. Since the rise of social media, journalists have been using [...]
Amber Case is interested in the future of humans and computers. She is frustrated with the way technology gets in the way and wants us to be able to live our lives with it as an aid not an encumbrance. In a packed keynote address, Case told her audience that we become cyborgs every time [...]
Every year, my counsel to SXSW newbies is: Don’t spend all your time in panels and sessions; make sure you make use of the innumerable hallway conversations that will avail themselves to you and spontaneous flash panels that pop up in hallways and lounges around the convention center. So this year, I’ve decided to put [...]
If you ever played Pac-Man video game, you know how addictive it is. In spite of the fact that there is no ending in this game. You can eat the yellow dots and get chased by the ghosts on a screen forever. Games make our lives more fun and thanks to mobile gaming, waiting in [...]
Every habit starts with a conscious decision that with time and frequent repetition becomes more adept. What initially took effort becomes automatic. Many habits are helpful in getting us through the day and allow us to expend less brain energy that can be redirected somewhere else. Some habits are good, like healthy diet and exercise, [...]
As a first timer at SXSW one of the things that has surprised me is how much of a focus for this U.S.-based event is… what’s happening in the U.S. OK, that sounds entirely logical, but hear me out. There are a lot of non-U.S. participants here, certainly hundreds from the UK. I’ve also met [...]
One would almost forget. Simultaneously to Dennis Crowley’s future visions on SoLoMo, location-based social networks and Foursquare, Gowalla died a gruesome and lonely death, somewhere in the deep, cruel and moist dungeons of Facebook. Ninety days after Facebook  opened its checkbook to buy Gowalla, the doors of the company have officially been sealed. A kick [...]
The phenomenon or people watching TV while using a tablet or laptop to browse the Web, and simultaneously tweet or post updates to friends via a mobile device, has been growing strongly over the last two years. Porter Novelli’s recent research Men are from Foursquare Women are from Facebook found social media users across Europe [...]
I had a nice convo with some fellow bloggers in the Samsung Blogger Lounge. On people. I admit, it was none too pretty. See, bloggers hate people with augmented egos. The Austin Convention center is packed with everyone that has a say in interactive, digital and social media. Guy Kawasaki, Brian Solis, Jeremiah Owyang, Gary [...]