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 …
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SXSW: Watch TIME‘s Lev Grossman Interview Futurist Ray Kurzweil
TIME‘s own Lev Grossman was at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, where he interviewed author and futurist Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity Is Near) during an interactive keynote at 2 p.m. CT titled “Expanding Our …
SXSW: Highlight Aims to Alert You To Like-Minded Folks in Your Immediate Vicinity
AUSTIN, Texas — 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. …
Facebook Shutters Gowalla Three Months After Acquiring It
Gowalla, which got its start at South by Southwest three years ago, has gone dark for this year’s festival. Users who try to log in to the location-based app’s homepage now get the message “Thank you for going out with Gowalla. …
Greetings From SXSW (and a Final Plug for My Panel)
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.
I’ve had …
SXSW: Why Geo-Fencing Might Change Your Life (and Make You Believe in Location Sharing)
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”
SXSW: The Fate of Libraries
Carson Block, who gave a SXSW Interactive talk on Saturday titled “The Great Library Swindle,” says that he’s passionate about libraries and technology. But he didn’t really need to tell his audience that. The intensity of his …
Can a New Breed of Geolocation Apps Beat Privacy Fears to Make It Big?
Every year, a new crop of geolocation apps springs up at South by Southwest. A city swarming with techies and parties is fertile ground for developers looking to test and promote their products.
But when the crowds leave …
SXSW: TIME Reporters on Tech, Politics, Arts, Biz and Social Media
Thousands of tech geeks, media dorks, political junkies, music lovers and film buffs are descending on Austin, Texas for the annual South By Southwest tech, film and music conferences. Here’s a breakdown of TIME-related panels …
SXSW Interactive Is Nearly Here (and I’m Hosting a Panel)
Austin’s South by Southwest began in 1987 as a music festival. In 1994, it added interactive — a topic better known as “technology” — and film to the mix. And in recent years, it’s just exploded. Especially the Interactive …
The Singularity Storms SXSW: Ray Kurzweil, Lev Grossman to Present Keynote at Interactive Festival
Exclusive: Futurist and singularity expert Ray Kurzweil will join best-selling author and TIME senior writer Lev Grossman for a special keynote conversation to be held at this spring’s South By Southwest Interactive …
Super 8 Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Been Resting
Austin’s South by Southwest conference conference has a relentless emphasis on the new–new tech startups, new movies, new music. But as I explored the event’s bustling trade-show floor this week, one of the things I was happiest to come across was old. Really old.
When I saw a booth festooned with Kodak signage, I assumed that it was …