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		<title>Viewpoint: Cory Booker Wins South By Southwest (SXSW) — How a Mayor Conquered America’s Biggest Tech Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 01:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our time had expired, I was getting the “wrap it up, now!” signal from the volunteers charged with keeping the tech festival moving, and yet I knew the moment Mayor Cory Booker nearly vaulted out of his chair for one final question that things would run late. Very late. In one of the most stirring 15-minute closing monologues I have witnessed at South By Southwest Interactive, the mayor of Newark laid out his vision for not just why social media must play an integral role in bringing government closer to its population but also why America will achieve its full potential only once the people collectively embrace what he identified as a &#8220;declaration of interdependence.&#8221; Edging forward in his seat, Booker poured over his personal history, his hopes for the future, and his commitment to be an active player in the “conspiracy of love” that he says has defined his family — and his country. For the first fifty minutes of Sunday&#8217;s conversation, I had been the interviewer and facilitator, marching Booker through his social media history (both hits and flubs) and his new initiative with the social video site Waywire (you can read through the highlights here). But his closing stump speech required no prompts or queries; it was a sweeping, emotional, extemporaneous eruption of beliefs and commitments. The Atlantic&#8217;s Timothy Bella might have said it best when he declared: “It was a tour de force of old-school charismatic politics…as well-received as Booker&#8217;s Twitter presence is for its personal touch, the live version might be better.” So I wasn’t exactly surprised when my final follow-up question was drowned out by a minute-long ovation. I also wasn’t surprised when, late Tuesday evening, Mayor Booker was bestowed with the prestigious designation of “Speaker of the Event.” What did surprise me was how the Booker session emerged as a defining intermission in my SXSW 2013 experience. Not to sound naïve here, but after the Booker session I found myself asking different kinds of questions and measuring panels by a whole different set<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158028&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Quantified Self Evolves: A South By Southwest (SXSW) Vision of How Gadgets Will Teach Us About Ourselves</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/11/south-by-southwest-sxsw-quantified-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated March 12, 2013 One of the great storylines at this year’s South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive festival is the rapid push from Big Data to My Data – or the mainstreaming of the Quantified Self movement that has succeeded in bringing data analysis and wearable technology into our daily lives. I found it telling that two of the festival’s kick-off events Friday evening — “The New Nature vs. Nurture: Big Data &#38; Identity” and “Quantified Year: 365 Days of Tracking Everything” — focused exclusively on this technological shift. I found it even more telling that the latter presentation, organized and hosted by Leslie Ziegler, concluded not with an answer but a broader existential question — about how people will actually use this surge in documented personal information. Across numerous panels last weekend – and sure to be continued on Quantified panels tomorrow, which are addressing personalized health care – the larger implications of body hacking were scrutinized and debated, with a focus on physical performance, dieting, consumption and the documenting of mental states. And most speakers seemed to agree that this is a science and cultural trend at a crossroads, as inventors and early adopters look to convert popular technology into proactive decision making. “I very much view this trend as a ‘Quantified Self’ spectrum – at one end is stasis, in the middle is mindfulness, but the ultimate goal is behavior change,” said Ziegler, who spoke with TIME on Thursday ahead of taking the stage in Austin. “And I feel like we&#8217;ve only reached the mindfulness stage…the future of this movement will be the development of new devices that aid you in altering the behaviors that you want to change. We already have the technology but now how do we make the technology for seamless, and the data more actionable? I feel like we are on the brink of taking that next big step.” (Read More: The 5 Big Tech Trends of South By Southwest 2013) Ziegler, a 30-year-old San Francisco designer and former creative director of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157864&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive 101: Five Themes to Follow in Austin</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/08/south-by-southwest-sxsw-interactive-101-five-themes-to-follow-in-austin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are numerous reasons to attend South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive – gadget demos, professional networking, celebrity schmoozing – but what I’ve always enjoyed most here are the case studies and thought experiments that allow the tech world to pause for a beat, moving momentarily beyond How It All Works to reflect instead on Why Are We Building All This In The First Place? Call me naïve, but I still believe we’re in the early phases of tech-as-daily-routine — still grappling with how closely we want to be connected, and what gadgets/networks actually improve our lives. Every year in Austin, I see a new wave of start-ups and platforms, and even if I’m not convinced that what I’m seeing is The Next Great Thing, I’m almost always fascinated by the debate that ensues: How will the Next Great Thing make our lives more enjoyable? And what does that enjoyment say about us as a species? (MORE: Tech, music, film — See TIME&#8217;s Complete Coverage of SXSW 2013) In past years, I’ve listened to plenty of broad, sweeping discussions – about how to use geolocation, how to reinvent the modern library, how richer data visualization can radically alter our perceptions of the world. However, surveying the 2013 program — which commences in earnest Saturday morning — there seems to be less philosophy and more practicality. The portfolio of panels is still as broad (and overwhelming) as ever, but within the festival’s core themes there’s a whole lot less “WHAT IF?” to be found in discussions that seem slightly more focused and sensible. TIME has rapidly expanded its presence at the festival. Harry McCracken, who is himself presenting in Austin, has already published a list of TIME’s key events. Beyond our slate of programming, here are five major themes that have caught my eye, in propelling the discussion of SXSW 2013: 1. 3D Printing. Given the considerable advancements in physical printing technology, 3D printing discussions are now turning towards applications, distribution and economics. There are scores of 3D printing panels and discussions at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157856&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South By Southwest: When Politicians Tweet — TIME to Present Conversation with @CoryBooker</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/28/cory-booker-twitter-sxsw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s never been a politician quite like Cory Booker — at least in terms of a social media persona. I was a reporter at the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey the day that Mayor Booker took office back in 2006, and I have followed his administration closely ever since. It was in the winter of 2010 when the mayor&#8217;s personal twitter feed caught my attention, right around the time he responded to a nearby tweet looking for someone to shovel an elderly resident&#8217;s driveway. Seemingly always logged on and eager to help, Booker has won over fans and followers well beyond Newark&#8217;s city limits. And his approachable, accessible online persona has hinted at a new era of social governance, where technology allows citizens to interact more directly than ever before with those they have voted into office. It was through Twitter that I approached Mayor Booker about appearing at South By Southwest Interactive 2013, to talk about both this brave new world of the online elected official and his role as co-founder of Waywire, the new social video side for millennial do-gooders. After a few direct messages, Booker accepted the invitation, and South By Southwest announced the timing of the event late last week: Mayor Booker will talk Twitter, Waywire and Newark at 12:30 p.m. March 10. Watch for more coverage right here, on Techland. More details from the SXSW announcement: Few politicians use social media as openly, or prolifically, as Cory Booker. As the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he has used his personal Twitter feed to interact with constituents on an hourly basis; to follow @CoryBooker is to understand the daily challenge of leading one of America’s largest cities. The mayor is routinely responding to questions and complaints – about issues ranging from potholes to snowdrifts and neighborhood violence. When not personally investigating an issue, he forwards phone numbers and e-mail addresses to his followers, directing residents to various city agencies. He endorses city businesses, shares inspirational quotes, responds directly to tweets of joy or frustration from his<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156872&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive Goes Retro: A Celebration of Analog at a Digital Fest</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/15/south-by-southwest-interactive-austin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When most people think of South By Southwest Interactive (see TIME&#8217;s full coverage of SXSW 2012), minds drift to emerging technologies, the soft launches of new products and the street-level beta-testing of the hippest, latest app. All of which makes the sidebar I attended on the festival&#8217;s second morning seem that much more remarkable. Organized by a quartet of artists committed to the value of physical objects in an increasingly digitized world, “The Present of Print: Paper’s Persistence&#8221; panel was a defiantly retro twist to be found at one of the world’s most forward-looking gatherings. About the time that posters were being passed around the room, demanding that attendees set aside their smartphones to recognize the tactile power of an advertisement that was composed as a work of visual art, it became clear that not everyone at SXSW adheres to the mantra that newer is always better. In fact, numerous panels at this year’s festival seemed preoccupied with the question of what’s been lost to society among all these technological advancements. Several of this year&#8217;s panels focused on the uncertain future of libraries, and the push to redefine and reenergize a book-oriented institution in an e-reader world. Another panel on Occupy Wall Street addressed the ways in which social media has fundamentally altered the process of protesting. And yet what’s so refreshing about South By Southwest is that, in almost all these cases, a large number of brilliant thinkers are already pondering how to redefine these institutions that are being altered by technology. There’s less a sense of decline in Austin than an eager push to envision the new library of the future. (MORE: The 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2012) Similarly, in the case of &#8220;Present of Print,&#8221; the focus was less on the decline of print media than on the new, profitable ways that printed advertisements, physical maps and material photos can be used to rise above the digital fray. Which brings me back to those posters being passed around the room: Frazier Fritz Blaw is the owner<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123183&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive Goes Political: Americans Elect Wins 2012 People’s Choice Award</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/americans-elect-south-by-southwest-interactive-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between grumbles in Austin that the 2012 South By Southwest Interactive festival had come and gone without any standout debuts or surprises, there was a steady drumbeat of curiosity, inspiration and support being expressed for AmericansElect.org – an organization and website devoted to popularizing a third-party candidate in this November’s presidential election. (See TIME&#8217;s complete coverage of SXSW 2012) Late Tuesday night, during the annual awards ceremony, this popular platform was bestowed with one of the festival&#8217;s top honors – the “People’s Choice Award,” which last year went to Groupon. Within minutes, Americans Elect had sent out a triumphant press release, moving to capitalize on this trendy prize: “This award confirms that Americans Elect is not just a growing political movement, but also a groundbreaking and innovative tech startup,” said Joshua Levine, the organization’s chief technology officer. “We’re honored to be recognized alongside so many other companies at SXSW using technology to empower people and improve the world around us.” (MORE: The 50 Best Websites of 2011) The primary agenda of the AmericansElect.org website is the hosting of the first online presidential primary this spring, which will be open to any registered voter in the country. Every candidate will make a pitch to the Americans Elect delegates, now numbering at more than 400,000, who will in turn choose and advocate for a presidential ticket that will appear opposite President Obama and the chosen GOP candidate on ballots this November. The countdown is already well underway; the first Americans Elect caucuses are set to begin in roughly 50 days. Beyond the popularity of the raw concept, the numbers show that Americans Elect has thrived in its execution: There have already been more than 2.8 million visitors to the AmericansElect.org site since its launch in July, all logging more than 32 million page views. Other top awards of the evening went to Pinterest (Breakout Digital Trend), the pinboard-styled social photo sharing website that has shown an explosive growth in users over the past year (see TIME’s 16 Pinterest boards), and Take This<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123179&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the Kurzweil SXSW Keynote: On Infinite Mind Power, Robotic Overlords and Immortality</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/14/kurzweil-south-by-southwest-keynote-speech-grossman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South By Southwest Interactive is a bubble of optimism; a haven of ingenuity that seems liberated from all the constraints, or cynicism, of daily life. There are conceptual talks here that forgo all notions of funding or commerce, to instead bask in the glory of the Next Big Idea. There are demonstrations where you can sense that you’re peering around the corner, at how people will be interacting differently with their computers – and their worlds – two or three years from now. And then occasionally there are presentations which send you spiraling through a time warp, glimpsing a vision of the future society that this conference seems to be moving towards each and every year, in increments that can be measured with every new app or software update. (See TIME&#8217;s full coverage of the 2012 SXSW) At Monday’s keynote event, which paired futurist Ray Kurzweil with TIME’s own Lev Grossman – who last worked together in forming the dazzling scientific hypotheses of this 2011 TIME cover story, which served as a basis of sorts for the Austin address – more than three thousand conference-goers filled every last seat of South By Southwest’s largest venue to marvel at Kurzweil’s vision of the future. (MORE: Kurzweil Tells TIME — Humans Will One Day Be Immortal) The session opened with a monologue from Kurzweil, a rapid-fire summary of his widely-known beliefs in exponential growth, as far as technology and computing power is concerned. Pointing to his smart phone, Kurzweil routinely tells crowds that what he uses and carries around everyday is now a billion times more powerful than the computer he used as a student. And also thousands of times smaller, and cheaper. (VIDEO: 10 Questions for Ray Kurzweil) It is precisely this dramatic growth in computing power that guides many of Kurzweil’s beliefs. As computer chips get smaller, and more powerful, he sees the trend intensifying to the point that humans will start aggressively employing, and implanting, nanotechnology, as devices the size of a blood cell emerge as one billion times<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=123162&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW: Why Geo-Fencing Might Change Your Life (and Make You Believe in Location Sharing)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/03/12/south-by-southwest-amber-case-geo-fencing-geoloqi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the casual tech user, the value of “location sharing” has thus far referred chiefly to a blinking blue dot on Google Maps and the ability to &#8220;check in&#8221; via Foursquare. In both instances, though, the location equation has left many frustrated — and even exasperated. When off Wi-Fi, Google Maps is slow and cumbersome, and it drains your battery faster than just about any other application. As for Foursquare, I’ve never quite understood the proposition. Sure, you can unlock badges, and earn a free prize from businesses in exchange for effectively uploading your consumption data, but it is unwieldy, time consuming and profoundly narcissistic. After all, the assumption here is that the world is dying to know what you’re doing This Very Second. Over the last three years at South By Southwest (see TIME&#8217;s full 2012 SXSW coverage), a vast majority of the conversations I’ve had with developers and entrepreneurs have concerned how to use Facebook&#8217;s social graph, and the location implications of Foursquare, to more meaningful effect. And this past Saturday, I was part of one of the most inspiring brainstorms yet. Ahead of her Sunday keynote in Austin, Amber Case sat down with TIME for a detailed discussion of how her new, closely-monitored venture Geoloqi has the potential to use geo-fencing to redefine the possibilities of location-based intelligence. It was the most eye-opening, paradigm-shifting conversation I’ve had in Austin thus far this year, and we will be writing more about her concepts – and posting our full video conversation with Case – later on TIME.com. (MORE: The 50 Best iPhone Apps of 2012) To boil down Case&#8217;s grand vision: Imagine a world in which location-based applications were used less to merely identify location than to dynamically coordinate one’s personal data and agenda, making the accessing of information easier and more efficient. A self-proclaimed cyborg anthropologist (see below), Case says she spends a great deal of time observing and considering how technology is redefining human behavior. And she, like so many of us, looked at a program like<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=122852&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive: Where West Coasters Reign, and the Big Apple Looks Like a Big Waste of Money</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/16/south-by-southwest-interactive-where-the-west-coasters-reign-and-the-big-apple-looks-like-a-big-waste-of-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Or at least that&#8217;s what they used to say. Well before I came to my first SXSW Interactive Festival this year, I knew that most high-tech innovation was happening in the pacific time zone. As the world has flocked to The Social Network over the past year, that line of thinking has only been reinforced; Zuckerberg, after all, effectively dumps his business partner because he never wises up and moves away from the Boston bubble. Still, what’s surprised me as I’ve roamed the halls of Austin is the way in which New York is seen as an impossibility by many young entrepreneurs, developers and investors. You want to start something? Hit up the community, and the talent, of San Francisco, Los Angeles or even Austin. But New York? Please. Less bang for more bucks. This stigma is perhaps one of the reasons that New Yorkers banded together Sunday afternoon for a day-long, specially-branded “NYC Startup Meetup” event – a gathering designed to celebrate not only some of the best new ideas tumbling around the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn, but also a place for these East Coasters to rally and regroup. So it was more than a little ironic then when one of the first companies mentioned at the meetup was Google. The company has recently made huge investments in New York City real estate, personnel and engineering efforts. Unlike so many other big firms that gobble up New York startups and ship them out west, Google has proudly and visibly expanded its Gotham footprint in recent months. In addition to thanking almighty Google, the meetup participants also frankly detailed and conceded some of the pressure points of innovating in New York. Wall Street pays more, making it hard to attract top talent; the cost of living/operating is so much higher than elsewhere in the country; many of the top investors looking to fund startup operations live more than 3,000 miles away. Then again, on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70794&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive Awards: Groupon Proves Itself the People&#8217;s App</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/16/south-by-southwest-interactive-at-the-2011-awards-groupon-proves-itself-the-peoples-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winners of the 14th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards were unveiled Tuesday night in Austin, and it will surely come as no surprise that Groupon cleaned up the People&#8217;s Choice award (voting had been open since February, after the festival&#8217;s finalists were first revealed). I&#8217;ll be writing a whole lot more about Groupon&#8217;s presence at this year&#8217;s sxsw in the coming days, but let me say this: Almost everyone cited the website in conversations with me. As we talked about user experience, game mechanics, demographic info, community challenges, every single observer and designer cited Groupon as a game changer. For a site to rise this quickly, get this big, and move this efficiently, clearly Groupon struck gold. And it walked away from Austin a champ. Almost two dozen categories were decided Tuesday night, with awards going out to an array of projects that either launched in 2010, or were fully redesigned in 2010. You can see the full roster of winners, and find links to the winning URLs, right here. Here&#8217;s our take on the five most meaningful wins of the night: - The Tiziano Project &#124; 360° Kurdistan won the award for activism. The project empowers Iraqi citizens living in the Kurdish north to document, report and webcast their own ground-level experiences, all the while being mentored by professional multimedia journalists. This is citizen journalism made simple and profound, connecting the average Iraqi citizen with an instant, global audience. -Isle of Tune won the award for experimental experiences. I had never heard of it prior to last night, but let me tell you, it&#8217;s addictive from minute one. Think of it as SimCity meets Garage Band meets Second Life. You build roads that cars drive down at a predefined speed, and then line those roads with houses and trees that can serve as instruments. The effect is hypnotic: You&#8217;re creating spatial music. And even better: Your map can be viewed and ranked by others. Behold one of the highest-ranked maps right here, and then spend the next hour trying<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70787&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South By Southwest Interactive: The Dawn of Location-Based Gaming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/15/south-by-southwest-interactive-the-dawn-of-location-based-gaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s deceptively easy to get caught up in the buzz of South By Southwest Interactive; to get ahead of yourself and think that the future is now. Location-based services (LBS) are the talk of sxsw 2011, and yet I think for the vast majority of web users, LBS are best known for being the Foursquare spam in your Facebook feed. Yet a good number of designers and developers and looking at how to take LBS to the next level – to layer location atop TV shows, games or streaming music to create richer media experiences. I’ll admit: I’m not the easiest to convince on this topic. I fall in the camp of people who thinks it’s rather rude to be sitting on your cell phone at the dinner table – that it’s important to have times where you break free of the web. And LBS run counter to that, suggesting that wherever you are, whatever you&#8217;re doing, your experience at those coordinates could be richer if you were just accessing it all through an app.  (More at Techland: The 10 best iPhone Camera Apps) But I saw two things at South By Southwest that piqued my interest. The first is the Broadcastr iphone application – which will use both user recommendations and location to create an audio playlist that is relevant for a given zip code. Between local music and area-specific podcasts, it’s an app with potential. On Saturday morning, I also attended the panel “Beyond Check-Ins: Location Based Game Design,” featuring Zach Saul and John-Paul Walton, the co-founders of Dokogeo. It’s a startup that has already completed two location-based games – the first baby steps that opened my eyes to the potential of location-based experiences. The company&#8217;s first game seems simple enough: Seek ‘n Spell, touted as the first real-time location-based game for both iPhones and Androids. The concept couldn’t be simpler: Letters are spread out over a predefined space, and you must use your phone and move to the correct location to collect the letters and spell a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70463&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South By Southwest Interactive: The Futurist, and the Seamless Streaming Future of TV</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everywhere you turn this week at South By Southwest Interactive, there is the feeling of a countdown underway – the countdown to a new way of gaming, a new way of sharing things with your social network, a new way of shopping. No one quite knows how we&#8217;ll get there, or what shape it will take, but after sitting through three days of panels and discussions, I certainly feel as if we are sitting on the brink of the next great idea. Saturday morning, one of the festival’s most fascinating panels was about the ways in which we are changing our consumption of visual media. And featured in the discussion “The Last Broadcast: Entertainment is Social – What’s Next?” was Brian David Johnson (above), Intel’s resident futurist. His professional mission is to develop an actionable plan for 2020 – to keep Intel one step ahead of the competition in terms of how consumers want to watch, interact and compute. And it doesn’t take a genius to see that as everything starts to go streaming, from television to movies to music, that almost anything you consume will be engaged via computer. “We have almost arrived at a place where people expect any screen to be connected to the Internet, and expect that they will be able to engage that screen in a dynamic way,&#8221; Johnson said. In other words: If I see a screen, I’m going to assume both that it’s a touchscreen and that I can access any and all streamable media. Johnson says when he walked the floors of CES this year, what struck him most was the proliferation of new screens – this obsession with finding newer, smaller, faster, friendlier connections to online media. Gone was the era of the new device, replaced by the era of the smarter and savvier screen. (More at Techland: How to Opt Out of Everything Online and Reclaim Your Privacy) Immediately after his Saturday presentation at South By Southwest, Johnson took to the airport to begin a three-week, round-the-world trip, on a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70457&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive: What Comes After the Information Age?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive have revolved around the introduction of something new &#8211; new technologies, applications, visions or theories. But one of the most intriguing panels I’ve attended thus far was also one of the least declarative. It was held Saturday afternoon, was dubbed “Time Traveling: Interfaces for Geotemporal Visualization.” And no, it had nothing to do with traveling through time. Instead, the dramatic question it raised was this: How do we make better sense out of this information age? How do we begin to use modern technology to not just create oceans of data, but to enhance our comprehension of this data? Still with me? Look at this picture here. It&#8217;s a model of wave height from the recent tsunami, expanded to a global scale to give us an added perspective of how the waves dissipated across the planet&#8217;s surface. By graphing it out in this way, we get a better sense of the scope and severity of the event. The data points become more illuminating. Our understanding becomes richer. Similarly, Saturday&#8217;s panel attempted to use the same general philosophy to graph out far more complex things. The challenge: How do we take information – information about the way society functions, lives, changes– and arrange it in such a way that optimizes comprehension. (More at Techland: The 10 Best Camera Apps for Your iPhone) In particular, Irene Ros, a visualization research developer with IBM, looked at the Egyptian revolution and the wide swath of information that was launched onto the web during the chaos. Her query: How do we best make use of this information to construct a richer three-dimensional portrait of the uprising? After all, we have people tweeting and liveblogging the chaos, news reporters on the ground, web videos of the clashes and thousands of photographs chronicling the carnage. This might be one of the most documented uprisings in human history. But if we were to go back and analyze only one of these data sources, are we getting the full story,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70174&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive: Google&#8217;s Mobile Future, and the Elusive &#8216;Power of Here&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/13/sxsw-interactive-googles-mobile-future-and-the-elusive-power-of-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 13:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was something of a collective shrug at the Austin Convention Center Friday afternoon, following the much-anticipated presentation by Google’s Marissa Mayer. But that said, there was irony to be found in the lackluster response, serving as yet further proof of just how dominant the company has become, in providing and filtering the world&#8217;s information. Each and every time Google takes to the stage, it would appear, we expect an society-altering advancement. This was precisely the speculation prior to the speech, that there might be the announcement of a major new product or initiative. Instead, Mayer – the recently appointed head of mobile and geolocation – ran through a checklist of all the ways that modern life has already been rendered more educated and efficient thanks to her company. While audiences at sxsw tend to look ahead, Mayer&#8217;s speech felt like something of a recap, with only a hint of what&#8217;s to come. The evolving Google mission, Mayer said, is to achieve the “Power of Here,” referring to the ongoing fusion of current Google products with mobile, location-based, real-time uses. In other words: Utilizing a handful of mobile-oriented apps, like Google Goggles, Hotpot, and Google Maps for Mobile to make the most out of location-based information. (More at Techland: The 18 Best Android Apps) There are the examples of Hotpot, offering restaurant recommendations while synchronizing with a user’s current coordinates. Or the use of Google Maps in avoiding traffic congestion (Mayer calculated that the traffic function has already saved drivers around the world enough time in traffic that it would add up to two saved years every day – an ambiguous stat until you realize it can be converted to $250,000 in saved fuel per year). Hiding in the middle of the presentation was a rather startling fact: During two 2010 holidays, the use of Google Maps for Mobile eclipsed the use of Google Maps on laptops or desktops. One might take it for granted, but we are quickly moving to a mobile-based relationship with the web (if not already<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=70167&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Adjustment Bureau: Losing One&#8217;s Free Will Has Never Looked So Charming</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/03/03/the-adjustment-bureau-losing-free-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until The Adjustment Bureau sells out – philosophically, intellectually, conceptually – it’s a compelling yarn about the wool being peeled from one’s eyes, revealing the true nature of the universe, that &#8220;adjusters&#8221; constantly tweak our destinies to ensure we arrive at our predetermined destination. In theory, it’s a spicy dose of existentialism, questioning the value of free will when making a decision cannot alter your trajectory. And in its original form, Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Adjustment Team,” one man’s discovery of his place in the predefined universe plays out as a tale of sacrifice; the adjusters, you see, are trying to ease Soviet tensions and avert a third world war, and Fletcher must keep his mouth shut about the true workings of the world, or risk destabilizing the planet. He alone ends the story aware of the game underway behind the scenes. (More at Techland: The Five Underrated Sci-Fi Masterpieces) But all of that nuance and subtlety – and existential dread – has been sandblasted and whitewashed from this weekend’s new blockbuster. I can only guess it wasn&#8217;t part of the plan. Here’s a movie where a man learns about the predetermined universe and doesn’t once question the meaning of his own life. Indeed, one of the crucial scenes occurs atop a skyscraper, with the bad men in black hats closing in around him, and even though all his hopes and dreams are slipping through his fingers, never once does he consider the only act of free will allowed in a manufactured universe: Suicide. No, that would be too dark for this Adjustment Bureau – effectively a Romeo and Juliet jaunt playing out against a sci-fi background. In Dick’s version of events, a husband learns of the Adjustment Agency and must sacrifice his own fantasy of free will in order to pave the way to safety for his planet on the brink of war. His ideals are shattered, but behind it all is a mythical organization ensuring that humanity doesn’t blow itself up. In the new version, David&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=68796&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Inception&#8217; Wins Big at the Oscar Nominations: A &#8216;Dark Knight&#8217; Apology?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/01/25/dark-knight-christopher-nolan-oscars-nomination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m surely not the only one who remembers the bitter aftertaste of January, 2009, when Christopher Nolan&#8217;s bleak, brilliant The Dark Knight was snubbed an Oscar nomination. One of the most popular and critically lauded films of the year, all but ignored on nomination morning, there was something of an open revolt online: How could the Academy screw this one up? (More at Techland: The 10 Most Best Sci-Fi Films of the Decade) Shortly after the 2009 awards, the Academy attempted to quell the unrest: They expanded the best picture category to include 10 nominees, in theory allowing voters to avoid skipping over as many prominent works. Those new rules took effect last winter, with 10 nominees. Now, one year later, Christopher Nolan &#8211; the man whose snub started it all &#8211; finally appears to be getting his due. Inception — the mind bending dream thriller that had me fawning back last summer — was a prominent name mentioned in Tuesday morning&#8217;s Oscar nominations. Alongside the likes of the Facebook film The Social Network (which Techland also loved) and nerdy best actor nominee Jesse Eisenberg, it might even be safe to say that there will be a healthy geek/fanboy contingent at the 2011 awards. Yes, Inception came up big in eight different categories Tuesday morning: Best picture, screenplay (I&#8217;ll be writing more in the lead up to the Oscars about what Nolan&#8217;s script gives away about the film&#8217;s much-debated ending) music, art design, cinematography, sound editing, sound mixing and visual effects. Given how reluctant the Academy usually is to reward summer blockbusters, or to honor sci-fi (remember that Star Wars lost people), Inception&#8217;s turnout Tuesday seems like something a coup. What do you think: Deserved? Overkill? A public apology to the Dark Knight contingent. More at Techland: 10 Mac Store Apps to Get You Started<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=64401&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 10 Nerdiest (Read: Most Glorious) Movie Moments of 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any year that finds movies like Inception and The Social Network being tossed about as serious Oscar contenders is a good year for the film nerds. That would be guys like me, who could parse Blade Runner, analyze The Fountain and diagram Primer all day long. For us cinephile geeks, it was a very good year, filled with visions both bold and subtle. I’ve arranged the most daring, unforgettable moments right here – interested to know if you agree.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=59768&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;TRON: Legacy&#8221;: Virtual Reality Odyssey? Or Takedown of Cyberculture?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/12/16/tron-legacy-virtual-reality-odyssey-or-takedown-of-cyberculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not quite a full review here. I’ve read other TRON: Legacy reviews out there, and am more intrigued about the dialogue that&#8217;s starting to take shape. There are a handful of spoilers below, but my intention here is not to give the game away, merely to talk about what it all means. Come back and read Monday, if you’re more interested in discussing the film after seeing it. I’m one of the nerds who has been freaking out for months – half a year, really – about the Thursday release of TRON: Legacy, who has been monitoring each and every update on the Flynn Lives website, who journeyed to Flynn’s Arcade at Comic-Con in San Diego. Trust me here: I’m the target demographic. And yet I must admit that when I sat down and finally put the 3-D glasses on, the movie was quite unlike anything I was expecting. After all those glossy, techno, pulse-pounding trailers, fans have been whipped into froth, eager to behold some breakneck neon mayhem. And yet throughout the story&#8217;s second act, the movie is less obsessed with spectacle than with some serious existential issues. So much so that I’ve started to see negative reviews pop up, decrying the film as everything from dull to inert. While I’m not quite sure the finished product warrants such extreme criticisms, I must admit that even as I walked out of the midtown Manhattan screening room, I turned to my colleague and said: “Fanboys are going to be ticked; they&#8217;ll be expecting a whole lot more action.” But I&#8217;m getting ahead of myself. A quick summary of where we are and how we got here: The film opens with the same flashback that has dominated every TRON: Legacy trailer – of a younger Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) putting his son to sleep, talking about the wonders of The Grid. Then flash forward: Young Sam (Garrett Hedlund) is now grown up, his dad’s been missing for years, and one of his father’s most trusted advisors visits Sam one<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=59365&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Pilgrim Signed DVD/Skateboard Giveaway: Only Five Evil Exes Can Win!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/11/04/scott-pilgrim-signed-dvdskateboard-giveaway-only-five-evil-exes-can-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay people, listen up. My prediction is that, by year&#8217;s end, there will be four movies that never receive the props they deserve. One goes by the name Unstoppable, and it opens next weekend. Best runaway train thriller in years. Retro giggles, the whole way through. Movie number two: Let Me In. You can check out my lengthy review here, but seriously, what the hell: This movie is great. America is going to rush out to see the fawning and fumbling of Twilight but they have no interest in a moodier, more mature take on the vampires? What the hell! It&#8217;s the next two that really get my blood boiling: Kick-Ass is exciting, emotional, even a tad bit subversive. It&#8217;s the superhero spoof that manages to cut through to the genre&#8217;s core. It deserved better. And Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, which was all but dismissed by the critical community, creates a sprawling, stylized, seductive vision of the world, as seen through the eyes of a hardcore gamer. We all geeked out about Scott Pilgrim at Comic-Con, and we asked the studio if there was anything we could do to celebrate the forthcoming DVD release &#8211; the film arrives on n Blu-ray and DVD Tuesday, Nov. 9. They responded with a whole slew of prizes that we can giveaway. So here&#8217;s the information on the swag, before we get into how you snag it: We have four lovely Blu-ray-DVD combo packs, with all the special features and goodies. So those will be the four runner-up prizes. And for the grand prize, we have a BD combo pack plus a signed skateboard that comes fully assembled and signed by director Edgar Wright (check out the video we did with Wright, on the films that influenced his career). Here&#8217;s a pic of the skateboard, provided by Globe (Globe.TV):<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=53541&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let Me In Review: A Requiem For the Bloodsuckers</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2010/10/01/let-me-in-review-a-requiem-for-the-bloodsuckers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven James Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’ve either seen Let the Right One In or you haven’t; either way, I’m betting you’ll love Let Me In, the uber-faithful, yet subtly distinctive, U.S. remake. I first saw clips of the movie at Comic-Con where director Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) was clearly worried about alleviating concerns that he had taken a subtle, evocative vampire story and driven it off the cliff with exaggerated horror jolts. So he brought with him two quiet, pensive, heartbreaking clips – and left most of the faithful fans intrigued. Here&#8217;s a vampire film that understands the audacity of silence. Well I’m thrilled to report that the solemn melancholy of the original storyline remains mostly intact in Let Me In. This is a sad, reflective story, about two relatively tragic figures. And the shift in tone is barely perceptible: Whereas Let the Right One In felt like a sigh in the silence, Let Me In has the feel of a requiem, a more emotionally loaded meditation on the bloodsucker blues. Things are just slightly less understated this time around, a little more overtly mournful, but I think that’s what will allow fans of the original to engage and connect with this variation. For any devoted fan of the original, who already knows and loves these characters, Let Me In is the emotive counterpoint. Reeves, using heartbreaking orchestrations and an ominous choral track, seems more willing to punctuate the silence, building to greater highs and lows. (More at Techland: The 20 greatest vampire films you&#8217;ve never seen) Still, it’s a minor modulation. The story has been moved from Europe to the insular, military community of Los Alamos, New Mexico. Yes, it’s still playing out in the dead of winter, with snow everywhere; and yes, Owen is as anxious and lonely as ever. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) plays the boy with a little more surface sadness and anger; we meet him as he&#8217;s acting out revenge fantasies against the bullies at school, using his pocket knife to stab a tree. He gorges on secretly purchased candy while<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=48676&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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