The Next Big Thing After Twitter? Moo.com

One of the questions that was raised before this years South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival was which (if any) product would rise to prominence in the heat of the Texan spring. The simple answer, now we’re all home, seems to be that the next Twitter is… Twitter.
While a number of other services did pop […]

What I Thought of my March Conferences and Events (Part One)

O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology 2008
A definite change of gears from Tim O’Reilly’s flagship conference - in previous years Etech has felt very much like a number of cliques who have moved down for an Easter holiday from San Francisco. Not this year, although lots of Bay Area people were around the atmosphere was much better, there […]

My Top Things To Take Away From March

So I’m now back in Edinburgh, after the crazy four weeks of travel (incidentally, if you call the US mobile number I’ve been giving out, it will no longer reach me, I believe it is back in the hands of the AT&T press relations department), and while I’ll talk about the events and suchlike later […]

My Thoughts on Lacy/Zuckerberg at SXSW. Learn From It.

There’s been a ton of comment on the Sarah Lacy / Mark Zuckerberg keynote at SXSW, but probably the best two comments I’ve seen on it so far are from Ian Schafer (”the reporter became the story”) and Allen Stern (”When you screw up or your customers believe you have screwed up, apologize. (my emphasis)”).
I […]

Should Gigging Bands Give Away Their CD’s?

Something that’s been in my mind these last few days at the South by South West (SXSW) Festival is why are bands, who are spending thousands of dollars in getting to an industry event such as SXSW, penny pinching a few dollars so that the top few percent of the crowd take away a shiny […]

SXSW Interactive 2008 - A Personal Success For Me

While I’m still in Austin, and the SXSW Music and Film conferences are still running, I have to say that my time in Austin at the SXSW Interactive Conference has proved to be a personal success. Not in terms of business or contacts, even though both of those look at this stage - before I […]

[Seesmarch] Barcamp Austin

[Seesmarch] The Rocky Social Breakfast

I’ll Be Hosting A SXSW Social Breakfast - You’re All Invited

Yes there are lots of these going on at the moment in certain Web 2.0 circles - the Social breakfasts, with a chosen venue where anyone and everyone can turn up - and while I’m reasonably sure that something like this would happen in Austin, I’ve decided to post up details on my first breakfast […]

Tech Conference Podcast Coverage at SXSW Baby

Following on from the post yesterday on the organising of the SXSW podcast schedule, I’m happy to be working with Brad Graham and the rest of the bloggers at SXSW Baby, the unofficial weblog of SXSW (set up by Ev Williams, now of course at Twitter).
The daily podcast will be available to stream from the […]

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