Blog Archives for the tag SXSW

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Crosswalk and LaunchRock Track the Winning Apps of SXSW

We’re just now feeling recovered from SXSW (see our Best of: Austin SXSW recap), the annual Texan tech conference, which draws Internet lovers from across the globe. During the 5-day conference, everyone…

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The Ultimate SXSW Infographic

In our recent “Best of: Austin SXSW” breakdown, we asked a few folks why they came to the annual tech conference, which draws Internet lovers from across the globe. “To…

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NY Invites Austin Innovators to Join Its Rising Tech Scene

In an introduction to monday’s SXSW panel “Silicon Alley: Startup Ecosystem That Never Sleeps,” NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg touted New York’s emerging tech scene as the place to be. And while arguments for…

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Homeless Hotspots and The Future of Actually Making a Difference

This past weekend at SXSWi, BBH Labs, an experimental arm of the international marketing agency, came under heat for its Homeless Hotspots project. In a nutshell, members of the Austin, Texas’ homeless community…

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SXSW: Everything.me Redefines Mobile Search

After two rainy days of location-based, social networking apps, the sun finally came out in Austin at SXSW. And as the clouds parted I stumbled upon Everything.me, a new HTML5, browser-based…

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Turntable.fm Goes Legit: Inks Licensing Deals With Four Major Labels

Social-music-discovery slash DJ-app Turntable.fm has just announced at SXSW that it now has licensing deals with all four major record labels which means that its service will be around for…

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Rdio Now Focuses More on Sharing and Discovery

Rdio has announced big changes for its product at SXSW today as it holds a live broadcast discussing new features and a focus on sharing and playlists. The company has…

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Last.fm Partners With Musicmetric for Artist Analytics

Last.fm has announced a partnership with data and analytics platform Musicmetric, an integration that will sit within Last.fm Music Manager, its interface for artists and labels. Musicmetric is a London-based startup…

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Facebook Announces New Timeline Apps, Including Foursquare

In addition to Viddy’s Timeline app going live today on Facebook’s Open Graph platform, the company announced some new partners, including; Foursquare, Nike, The Onion, VEVO, Fandango, Viddy, Endomondo, and…

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Watch live from SXSW: Being gay in tech

Our own Hermione Way is at SXSW, at a panel on being gay and in tech. The ever excellent Kara Swisher is taking part, along with Nick Vivion, Joel Simkhai, and Cathy…

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FremantleMedia to Sell Hulu's Series Abroad

Hulu has closed a partnership with the audiovisual distributor FremantleMedia Entreprises (FME), the film & TV streaming platform announced on its blog, ahead of a dedicated panel at SXSW. Following…

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Nokia Decides to Plant Trees During SXSW

With SXSW in full gear, the parties are rockin’, the booze is flowin’, and the BBQ is sloppin’. The yearly SXSW Interactive event in Austin is commonly referred to as…

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SXSW: Love it or Hate it? An Interview with Highlight

This year, tech prophet Robert Scoble dubbed two mobile apps as “The two hottest apps you’ll “run into” at SXSW“. The rest of the Internetverse quickly echoed his sentiments. The two…

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Hadza Crowdsources Live Event Videos

Are you a Beastie Boys fan? If so, you will understand very quickly what the new Chilean platform Hadza does. The link between the two is an innovative concert video the band did in 2006….

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Nike Will Open Up FuelBand API at SXSW Managers Hack

If you would have told me at the beginning of the week that the company who was making the biggest splashes in tech would be Nike, I would have told…