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South by Southwest, the annual tech, film and music conference held in Austin, Texas, has been canceled due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus outbreak, CNBC reported. The unexpected thing in this situation is that it was not SXSW that chose to cancel the conference. Instead, Austin Mayor Steve Adler issued an order canceling SXSW, after declaring a local disaster in
Memoto is a Swedish startup company that began as a Kickstarter project in 2012. They are the creators of the Memoto Lifelogging Camera. It is a tiny device that allows users to not only capture, but also share, whatever special moments of their life that they choose to. The idea was to make a camera that was small enough so
The buzz is spreading about a marketing firm's unique attempt to draw attention (and contributions) to the homeless population in Austin during the annual tech portion of SXSW. BBH Labs, with offices in NYC and London, is the brains (some would argue otherwise) behind this publicity stunt where homeless folks are outfitted with a wireless internet transmitter and dispatched
First of all they need to rename the Interactive portion of SXSW to Waste of Time. What I expected from SXSW was a social experience where you met a lot of people, network and get a lot out of the conference tracks. The conference tracks last year where 50% pitch, 25% the person had no clue and 25% awesome. The
Just a few minutes ago, I left my third session in 2 days because the speakers were pitching their companies. SXSW better get a handle on this! I have spoke at a number of conferences over the past 5 years and have been very careful to never pitch my companies products, during what is supposed to be educational sessions. Pisses
I will have some more details on my next podcast, but here is a lineup of some sites launching at SXSW www.funtweet.it www.flavors.me pro.wholinkstome.com www.awarenessnetworks.com upstack.com www.pearanalytics.com www.edoorways.com www.phonebooth.com Pubstop by www.imagespacemedia.com
Yesterday in the last session of the day at SXSW Mark Cuban and Avner Ronen had what I consider to be one of the better debates of the show so far. While it was a bit over the top and some ego's in play, both made great points about the future of how we are going to be consuming media