If 2007 was the year of the “Social Media Gold Rush”, 2008 is the year of the “Social Media Good Rush”.
(Photo: “To the Good Rush“, signed by Frank Warren)
At SXSW Interactive 2007 the hot topic was how to ‘monetize’ social networks - it was all about how to make sustainable business models around systems [...]
Our reactions to PostSecrets keynote: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Frank Warren - signing his book and beinge eloquent: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadBaratunde R Thurston, Web Editor of The Onion
Ewan Spence
Outside the venue.
The guy who invented the term ‘blogosphere’ apparently.
What is Fray Cafe, Ewan Spence: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Baratunde R Thurston: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Two Pairs of Glasses...: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadI’m not alone in thinking that Profilactic could be one of the big stories of 2008 - a service that lets you aggregate and manage all of the various feeds of information that you publish as a person and have them pulled together into a ‘lifestream’.
Here we talk about the idea behind the service and [...]
We went to the fantastic Dorkbot party and met up with the organisers. Something to bring to the UK?
Pete loved the robots. I loved the interactive visual feedback loop Eric Archer had made. It was good:
This image is entirely produced without digital graphics input. It’s a camera feeding back on itself connected to a modified [...]
I’ve spent a lot of my time recording my conversations with people at SXSWi and I’ll be posting a few of them here (I can’t find anywhere that’s more appropriate - Viddler for audio anyone?)
To kick off, here are some first impressions from some of the other SXSWM types.
Dom Murphy's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Pete Ashton's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Joanna Geary's First Impressions: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download