Austin’s streets are so crowded during the 48 hours when SxSW Interactive is ending and SxSW Music is beginning that it’s easy to imagine the budding love affair between music and tech began as a romcom collision.
Techies show up to SXSW Interactive on the hunt for the next big gadget or app. But on the fest’s second day, digital was pushed aside during a celebration of the analog, the hand drawn and the physical
In a year of few hot new tech launches, it was the third party-minded online organization Americans Elect that took home the top award
The panel I moderated on Monday at SXSW Interactive — “Lessons From Disruptors: Game-Changing Startups” — was easy. The panelists were engaging and sometimes downright inspiring, and the folks in the audience asked so many good questions that my work wasn’t really work.
He is one of the world’s most renowned futurists, and onstage at South By Southwest, Ray Kurzweil stirred debate with a speech that outlined the incredible role artificial intelligence will play in the future, as it reshapes humanity
I have survived my first South By Southwest panel appearance. On my Sunday-morning panel, “Arts Criticism in 140 Characters or Less,” my fellow panelists and I used far more than 140 characters at a shot to explain how social media, especially Twitter, have changed the way we write about the TV shows and movies we write about.
TIME’s own Lev Grossman was at the annual South by Southwest festival, where he interviewed author and futurist Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) during an interactive keynote titled “Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit.”
In many ways, South by Southwest is the ultimate laboratory for a service like Highlight, the location-based social networking startup that is quickly becoming the belle-of-the-ball at this year’s conference. Highlight notifies users of people in their vicinity who share their interests or friends. And at a hip, tech-heavy event like SXSW, those notifications are flying fast and furious.
Gowalla, which got its start at South by Southwest three years ago, has gone dark for this year’s festival.
I snapped this fuzzy photo with my iPhone at SXSW Interactive, and the intensity of the crowd isn’t some weird aberration — the conference, associated events and parties are often that mobbed. Especially the parties.
Meet Amber Case: She’s a cyborg anthropologist, questioning the ways we interact with computers, and the founder of Geoloqi.com — a second-generation location based service that uses geo-fences to redefine the concept of “checking in”
