Panel on Rebuilding the World with Free Everything, with:
Doc Searls – Linux Journal
Katherine Druckman – Linux Journal
William Hurley – evil genius project
Chris Anderson – Wired Magazine
Dave Taylor – filmBUZZ
“Free” is the future of business. Steve Larsen says the world has more than 500,000 open source code bases now — all free. [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 – 4:36 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Keynote session at SXSW, with:
Chris Anderson – Wired Magazine
Guy Kawasaki – Alltop
In 2006, Chris Anderson introduced the concept of the Long Tail. His soon-to-be released book will talk about the power of free. Will his theories stand up to the tough questions of venture Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki?
If you [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 – 3:11 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Panel on “Appfrica: How Web Applications Are Helping Emerging Markets Grow” with:
Jonathan Gosier – Appfrica
Erik Hersman – Ushahidi / Afrigadget / WhiteAfrican.com
David Kobia – Ushahidi
Rose Shuman – Open Mind – Question Box
TMS Ruge – Project Diaspora
Everything we thought we knew about Africa is wrong. Technology is leading growth, developmental aid [...]
Categories: Social media
Tagged: appafrica, erik hersman, SX09-519, ushahidi
- Published:
- Sunday, March 15th, 2009 – 4:33 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Panel on “Breaking Boundaries: Mobile Web Access in Emerging Economies,” with:
G Kofi Annan – Annansi LLC
Charles McCathieNevile – Opera Software
Matt Womer – World Wide Web Consortium
David Rogers – OMTP Ltd
In many regions, the mobile phone is the primary tool for Web access. As mobile Web connections increase in developing nations the [...]
Categories: Social media, Travel
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- Sunday, March 15th, 2009 – 12:30 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Panel on Building Your Brand with Web 2.0 Tools, with:
CC Chapman – The Advance Guard
Dave Delaney – Griffin Technology
Saul Colt – FreshBooks
Loic Le Meur – Seesmic
Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs
Getting attention for your brand (personal or company) is easier than ever thanks to the ole’ interweb but doing it [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Saturday, March 14th, 2009 – 5:58 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Brian Oberkirch moderated a panel on “Try making yourself more interesting,” by panelists (this is a paraphrased live blog post):
DL Byron – Bike Hugger
Amit Gupta – Photojojo
David Rees – mnftiu.cc
Kristina Halvorson – Brain Traffic
There are no cheat codes for community. No Charles Atlas shortcuts to make your pet project the [...]
Categories: Social media
- Published:
- Friday, March 13th, 2009 – 6:04 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Steven Johnson of outside.in talks about “The Ecosystem of News” and “old growth media”. This live blog post is mostly paraphrased:
It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is [...]
Categories: Social media
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- Friday, March 13th, 2009 – 4:08 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
I’m honored to share the stage at SXSW 2009 with co-panelists Peter Imbres, Scott Monty, and Andy Carvin for a talk about “Digital Tsunami: Breaking News at Breakneck Speeds”:
Categories: Events
Tagged: andy carvin, news, panel, peter imbres, presentation, scott monty, sxsw, sxsw09, sxswi, sxswi09
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- Friday, March 13th, 2009 – 3:21 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho
Dan Willis from Sapient talks about how “Everything you know about web design is wrong” (this post is live-blogged and mostly paraphrased):
“Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, [...]
Categories: Social media
Tagged: SX09-511
- Published:
- Friday, March 13th, 2009 – 2:58 pm
- Author:
- By Alex de Carvalho