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The Top 5 Trends From SXSW

The following is my post last week on the Jack360 blog: Last week I was at South by Southwest interactive with a few colleagues from Jack Morton to listen and learn about what’s new in interactive, what people are thinking about and generally absorb the experience of having tens of thousands of developers, designers, writers, [...]

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Who Is A Twitter User?

The SXSW keynote interview of Twitter’s Evan Williams by Umair Haque may have been a bore, but it did highlight some interesting aspects of what Twitter is and how it is used. Twitter is an interesting application precisely because it is not one.  Rather than setting up how to use the service, Twitter has watched [...]

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Shopping For Sessions at South by Southwest

In some of my posts last week about my South by Southwest schedule I hinted at an attendance strategy, but never really explained it in detail. This was in part because I assumed that it was how things worked and wasn’t that unique an idea (which is correct). But now that SXSW is over I [...]

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Tweeture Toys With Twitter

While at South by Southwest this week I met a little gray and green critter named Tweeture.  He’s the brainchild of The Umbrella Group and is an alien robot monster attending SXSW and being baby sat by other attendees.  If they treat him nice he tweets them nice and if they don’t he get’s grumpy.  [...]

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South By Southwest Live Blogging

While at South by Southwest this week I live-blogged every session that I can attended.  I’ve edited them, adding photos, links, slideshows, details, videos where appropriate, highlighting the best stuff and generally cleaning them up for better and easier reading. I’ll also be posting a recap of what I thought were the most interesting things [...]

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Convergence

The following is a liveblog of a series of 6  short presentations on the convergence of media and devices that is taking place.  Presentations dealt with larger themes of convergence, tools for supporting convergence, current issues with it, transmedia story telling and possible futures.  The session was given at South by Southwest on March 15, [...]

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The Next Generation of Social Media: Keynote Interview with Evan Williams and Umair Haque

The keynote at South by Southwest by Evan Williams being interviewed by Umair Haque on Monday, March 15, 2010 received a horrible response for Ev’s rollout of @anywhere with no further discussion, softball questions and Umair Haque’s speaking at least as much as Ev about his pet theories rather than letting the CEO of Twitter [...]

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The Life Graph: You Are Your Location

The following is a liveblog of a panel discussion with Ryan Sarver,  Sam Altman, Tina q Unterlaender, Clara Shih and Steve Lee on geolocation, social networks, privacy and monitization.  The panel was excellent with great back and forth, insight into issues around geolocation and social networks and the future of this functionality.  The panel took [...]

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Web Series 2.0: Big Campaigns on Digital Dollars

The following is a live blog of a panel discussion with Melissa Fallon, Senior Vice President in TV, Film, Digital of Davie Brown Entertainment, Chris Hanada, co-founder of Retrofit Films, Milo Ventimiglia, co-founder of DiVide Pictures, Wilson Cleveland and Andrew Hemp on the use of online video for marketing campaigns, challenges and opportunities.  The session [...]

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What Does Corporate America Think of Web 2.0?

This is a live blog of Andrew McAfee‘s session at South by Southwest on March 15, 2010.  The session focused on the barriers to adoption of web 2.0 within corporations and recommendations for overcoming them.  Overall it was inspiring, straight talk. 10:54:03 AM: RT @SterlingBooks: 2.0 is an amorphous term – quality comes from collaboration, [...]

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