Bill Gates to keynote SXSWedu conference

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While much of the tech world’s attention is focused on Las Vegas and the Consumer Electronics Show (and Microsoft’s lack of a keynote or exhibit space), the upcoming SXSWedu conference has announced its first keynote: Bill Gates. SXSWedu is the newest in the family of SXSW (“South by Southwest”) events, which include the popular nine-day conference in… Read More…

GeekWire Radio: New iPad, SXSW recap, and the best iPhone camera app ever

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We’ve got a ton of interesting apps and online services to talk about on this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, with special guest Monica Guzman, the GeekWire columnist just back from the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin. We talk about the pros and cons of the new iPad, discuss Highlight and other… Read More…

SXSW buzz by the numbers: Guess which app was tweeted about most?

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A whopping 24,569 people registered for the South by Southwest Interactive festival this year, up 27 percent from 2011. For five days and nights they stormed Austin to network, party, debate new tech trends and raise a glass to the madness of geekdom. But to many products, brands and commentators, the chatter that matters is online…. Read More…

The irony of ‘Homeless Hotspots’ at SXSW

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I was walking down Sixth Street, buried in my phone, when my husband, Jason, noticed something and stopped. I didn’t see it at first. It was the late afternoon on Sunday and streams of people were flowing up and down both sides of the bar-lined corridor, Austin’s main nightlife artery. They stopped here and there… Read More…

Dispatch: ‘Highlight’ and rivals light up SXSW, but what about the wider world?

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Posting from Austin: Meet someone at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive festival, and your first questions are likely to be the same. What do you do? What are you working on? Seen any cool sessions? And, oh, what do you think of Highlight? It seems Highlight — a mobile app in the newly emerging… Read More…

Dispatch: How to stand out at SXSW

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Posting from Austin: When teams want to promote their brands at South by Southwest, they know one thing matters above all — standing out in the crowd. The same goes for SXSW panelists. I had to stop Robyn Sklaren when she walked by me on the first floor of the Austin Convention Center in these…. Read More…

Austin here we come: ‘Don’t die’ and other SXSW goals

Crazier or craziest? Shauna Causey, Monica Guzman, Amy Lakhani and Maya Bisineer at one of many SXSW parties.

I’ve got three simple goals for my trip to Austin’s geektastic South by Southwest Interactive Festival this year: To have a great time, to meet people who do amazing things in the digital space, and to not die. I got sick for four straight days after SXSW last year. Not just a little sick. Stay the hell… Read More…