As the outro for SXSW Interactive let's have a bit of the Posies "Dream All Day." [Blip.fm http://bit.ly/dreamallday] It's been raining since about 10:00 last night and the temperatures we've been enjoying all week have dropped into the more typical March messiness. Hey, we need the rain. But I bet if I was in a downtown hotel I'd be hung over and looking out at the weather and roll over for a few more zzzz, rather than bust a hump to get to the 9:30 sessions this morning.
[twitter fail whale appearance: #4 on the day]
The SXSW 2010 Web Awards as captured by Wired.com
What cha think? Here are Lee Odden's tips on how to blog and tweet a conference.
[pic: Rainy day in Austin...makes #SXSW a slog... http://twitpic.com/18xvzm ]
As it is I am at home having the same thoughts, but not hung over. I was writing when the rain came last night. Already tucked away with superior wireless and very little web traffic. The kids were running around playing Avatar and filming movies. [Presenting the SXSW debut of The Curse of the Magic Mustache. on YouTube.]
Update 10:50 CST: I'm still at home. I have a presentation to give at 5PM. The weather sucks. I must find a panel worthy of slogging through. Or just sit here and unConference, or virtually attend via #hashtag. This monitor is HUGE. And I am sitting on a Pilates ball, so I'm pretty comfy. Scanning the directory now.
Okay, you tell me. Nap… Cat… #bedcamp OR #rain #parking #sxsw
So the geeks are leaving and the freaks are arriving today. When the music part of SXSW cranks up the whole city turns into a zoo. The bands, roadies and fans heading towards Austin at the moment are massive and rowdy and ready to party. The concept of not partying must seem pretty alien. While the sessions at the convention center are all about business and connecting and promoting, the music portion of the SXSW festival is a PARTY. Like 5 days of Austin City Limits Festival, only bigger. Not a club will be unrocked, not a dark alley will be unpissed upon. That's just the way it is. Austin's been hosting the festival for over 20 years at this point, and it stays the same, even as it gets bigger.
A rumor that 4square is stuffing the "check-in" ballots. Any one have DATA to support that? My TwitterVenn says NOT!
DOH! Of course this data is global, or Twitter-wide. Soo…. How can I filter checkins by location?
Here's a Google Trends map for the #sxsw. Of course the day nor the tweeting is not done for this year yet, so I left that trend line off.
Summing up my AH HA moments thus far:
Drawing is powerful.
Resources: http://bit.ly/google-viz (#viznotes hashtag on google images) and http://bit.ly/google-viznotes (visual notetaking on google images)
Geo-Location and Event Sites are Bunk are Great.
Examples: Foursquare (king of the geo-lo "check-in apps); Gowalla (local darlings and upstart trying to steal some 4sq mojo); my.sxsw.com (the brilliant people behind SXSW are trying to do it all, Ooops, it requires a log-in); Plancast (newish "what are your plans" site that has gotten some traction at SXSW); and my favorite Sitby.us (simple and based on the idea of what event you are AT and where you are SITTING in the room so you can find each other).
Even if you are CEO of Twitter you need to inspire @ev blows it.
And it wasn't just me that picked up on the lack of spirit in the Twitter Keynote by Evan Williams. While the main ballroom was full and the overflow room was also full, the lack of inspiration, or anything beyond a soft-ball interviewer and an executive having a chat, started clearing the room at about 3o minutes in. It became a parody of an interview. I wonder if @ev was afraid to take Q and A for fear of being hammered on Fail Whale plans, or "revenue model" questions that the inept interviewer even said he wasn't going to ask. UH! Why not? I can tell you @anywhere is not going to bring Twitter out of the huge-loss mode. @ev jokes about how Twitter is a company "without a revenue model," but it's not funny. And when the Fail Whale blows repeatedly throughout the SXSW conference, I believe many of us would welcome a new platform that could suck in our Twitter Friends and Follows and give us a stable platform. Well, it ain't BUZZ, but I'm saying that Twitter.com's days are numbered. Have they got a killer iPad strategy in the wings for two weeks when Apple opens the tablet flood gates? (continues on new @ev twitter keynote post)
@jmacofearth
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All the Uber.la SXSW 2010 posts in one place:
- A SXSW Wrap Up for 2010: Pumpin the High 5s and Dropin the Low Lights #sxsw Final
- Twitter Keynote Trends Badly, It Wasn't All Umair Haque's Fault #sxsw #twitter
- Geo-This Geo-That: Gowalla Wins ATX Social Media Darlings Award at #SXSW; Exclamations of "So What!"
- Smile Today in ATX: Penultimate Day at #SXSW 2010 (updating along the way)
- Another Winding Down at SXSW: Social Media Club HOUSE at Dusk #smch3
- #SXSW Rockstar SuperPowers Now Available in Austin, Texas (jetpacks optional)
The view from an iPhone. A walk-through SXSW 2010. By Travis Smith – Fully Operational This is BRILLIANT.
