SxSW: Tech Gets As Personal As the Stories
The beauty of the SxSW Conference is not only are you exposed to emerging trends in how content will be shared, used and interacted with, but it’s with the people who will make it happen. This place is rocking with new ways to use location based services (LBS),...
SxSW: Gaming The World for Business; Education
The world is a game and we’re playing whether we want to or not. Our education system, customer acquisition and even loyalty rewards all use gaming elements according to SxSW day two keynote speaker Seth Priebatsch, the “Chief Ninja” for Boston-based mobile gaming...
SxSW Update: Chasing the Ideas of Innovation
Location Based Services (LBS) and the importance of driving ideas into entrepreneurial success was opening tone set at SxSW interactive, the premiere emerging media conference that opened in Austin, Texas on Friday (March 11, 2011). CEO of O’Reilly Media, Tim O’Reilly...
SxSW 2011: On The Nerdbird
I started the day at Boston’s Logan International Airport’s Terminal C discussing the upcoming SxSW (pronounced South-by-southwest) conference with a group of people that made our @JetBlue flight worthy of the nickname “NerdBird1”. The first discussion with a number...
What Sunday Comics (And Education) Can Teach Us About Good Social Media
Sunday morning is the only time that a lot of people actually pick up a newspaper, even if it’s online, and read the comics. There’s a reason you read only some of the comics and religiously skip others – some speak to you and engage your imagination and experiences....
Google Blends Social Results To Search Results
Google has taken another giant step to social search by adding results from people you know when you do a search. In the Google Blog today they announced that they have done "a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people...
