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LinkedIn offered professionals a number of ways to connect, network and meet their online contacts in real life at SXSW
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For all the buzz and hype SXSW Interactive racks up every year, it always seems to come and go with amazing speed.
So I thought I'd try to make sense of it by putting together a brief recap of the single greatest event celebrating startup culture on the planet.
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Assuming you weren’t one of the Meerkat minions running around live-streaming your every experience at SXSW Interactive, you probably noticed that collaboration technology continued to be a top trend among exhibitors this year. And for good reason.
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They came to Austin, Texas from far and wide — places as far removed from each other as Atlanta and Austria, Salt Lake City and Stockholm, New York and Tokyo … you name it.
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As far as tradeshows go, SXSW Interactive is akin to controlled chaos, a bit like a three-ring circus with companies and brands doing their best to grab the attention of thousands of techies from around the world.
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Say what you want about SXSW Interactive (and plenty of people have said quite a lot). But a couple of things are clear.
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Big data luminary Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of fivethirtyeight.com and special correspondent for ABC News, and Bill Simmons, editor-in-chief of Grantland, led a new track at SXSW in Austin, Texas this year called SX sports. They talked about their experiences in a session titled "Media and The Personal Brand.
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No, it’s not the executive team's Irish brogues, their polished pitch, the fact that St. Patrick’s Day is almost here or even that they have a connection to Twitter founder Ev Williams. Trustev, the Cork, Ireland start-up primed to take the world by storm, leverages big data, social
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A tasty little film that opened this year's SXSW Interactive Festival says a lot about finding satisfaction in your work — and also presents an important teaching moment in social media. Jon Favreau's film "Chef " tells the story of a high-profile restaurant chef who makes the transition to
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My API journey is nearing its end. Back in 1999, I first started articulating how user experience (UX) principles could be applied to coding interfaces between objects and systems. A few of my colleagues at the consulting firm where I was working got it.
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It is all clear now. I figured it out. My absolute favorite thing about SXSW is this: The pretentious people say it has jumped the shark. Do you know all those people who are so busy telling everyone “There’s nothing new at SXSW”? Yeah, they’re gone.
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Yay! Halleluja! Huzzah! Yippee Skippee! The day I have longed for has arrived. I am no longer the only one talking about the need for design philosophy in the API space. At this time last year, Alan Cooper (the godfather of user centered design) and I were seemingly the only ones who recognized that this space is in need of designers. Although Alan empathized and heartily agreed with me I still felt alone given
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The crowd was wildly snapping pictures and the star of the show grabbed his camera and started snapping back. Fans who surrounded the spectacle started then taking pictures of the audience and the icon taking pictures of each other.
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If Infochimps’ new CEO delivers half as well as he sells, then Fortune 500 companies will be lining up to move their data -- Big Data, streaming and still -- on to the company’s Infochimps Enterprise Cloud.
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