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 …
How do we go from nifty wearable gadgets to the dawn of a new cultural mindset? I have no idea – but I’m pretty sure someone at South By Southwest will figure it out.
South By Southwest Interactive is primarily about the networking, gadgets…and tacos. But this year, some new topics have filtered into the conversation.
SXSW: There’s never been a politician quite like Cory Booker — at least in terms of a social media persona.
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
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
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”
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.
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 …
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 this …
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 …
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 take, but after sitting through three days of …
