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 interest was very much on display during his talk, which was about the daunting challenges that public libraries face in the age of the Internet and digitization.
Every year, a new crop of geolocation apps springs up at South by Southwest. This year, there are a few contenders trying to succeed where past companies have failed: Highlight and Glancee.
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 over the next several days.
Austin’s South by Southwest began in 1987 as a music festival. In 1994, it added technology and movies to the mix. And in recent years, it’s just exploded–especially the Interactive portion, which starts this Friday and runs through next Tuesday.
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 Festival.
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.
They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. Or at least that’s what they used to say.
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’s Choice award (voting had been open since February, after the festival’s finalists were first revealed). I’ll be writing a whole lot more about Groupon’s presence at [...]
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 [...]
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’ll get there, or what shape it will [...]
Many panels at this year’s South By Southwest Interactive have revolved around the introduction of something new – 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.” [...]
