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SxSW Day 5: cheating, robots and weirdness

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SxSW Day 5: cheating, robots and weirdness

By Nathan Bush on 17 Mar 2011

I write this final post from the Austin airport. Despite my resolution yesterday to catch an early night and feel refreshed for the next leg of the journey, I feel like rubbish. But it was worth it. A surprise gig from the Foo Fighters easily persuaded me to farewell Austin in style. Just when you [...]

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SxSW Day 4: Bumping, Internet TV and Gary Vaynerchuk

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SxSW Day 4: Bumping, Internet TV and Gary Vaynerchuk

By Nathan Bush on 16 Mar 2011

The fourth day opens. I discover the hotel buffet. And rediscover fruit. It is amazing. Here are the highlights: The next step for location games is personal recommendations. Foursquare founder and CEO, Dennis Crowley is interviewed onstage by Mashable’s Pete Cashmore about the future for the location gaming network. The direction is personalisation of your [...]

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SxSW Day 3: TED, touch and fatty burgers

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SxSW Day 3: TED, touch and fatty burgers

By Nathan Bush on 15 Mar 2011

It’s Sunday morning. In an overcast Austin. The morning after the opening party. With one hour sleep lost due to the first day of daylight saving. It looks like zombie nerds have invaded the place. Here were the highlights of day 3: Embrace openness with open arms, not an open door. In her TED keynote, [...]

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SxSW: Day 2 – Banks, giant squirrels and unsexy social media

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SxSW: Day 2 – Banks, giant squirrels and unsexy social media

By Nathan Bush on 14 Mar 2011

So. Much. Information. I’m trying to keep these brief with a few interesting points but let me know in the comments if there’s anything you want to know more about. Here’s some highlights from Day 2: The hype around location is not dying down. You can not escape Foursquare, Gowalla and the thousand other location [...]

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SxSW: Day 1 – Social budgets, Google and burning tongues

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SxSW: Day 1 – Social budgets, Google and burning tongues

By Nathan Bush on 13 Mar 2011

The first real day of SXSW started today. My previous day of exploring the city and their hipster dinosaurs doesn’t count. For anyone who isn’t aware, SxSW stands for South by South West and is a ten day music, film and interactive festival held in Austin, Texas… y’all. There’s about 12,000 people who converge on [...]

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Geeking it up in Texas – SXSW Day 1

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Geeking it up in Texas – SXSW Day 1

By Anthony Dever on 16 Mar 2010

I’m in the city of Austin, Texas for the interactive conference that is part of the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival – an event for the music, film and interactive industries which optimistically promises that “Tomorrow Happens Here”. But fear not that you might miss a sneak peek at the future as I’m attending [...]

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