March 2009

Great Company Culture

  According to Sam Decker, CMO of BazaarVoice, company culture is underlining trust. For him, good culture starts with hiring a good group of strong executives to surround you. The second most important thing is the employee hiring process. At Bazaarvoice, at least 3 executives interview each candidate to see how people fit into the company […]

The BBC, Six to Start and ARGs - Bringing TV to the Web

Daniel Hon, CEO of Six to Start began his speech with “We (television) are done.” Folks from England talked about their strategies. Editor and social media chief from BBC and crews from web content developer Six to Start were panelists. They all agreed with the bright future of  the web environment as content providers, and […]

SXSW goes international!

If you have never visited QQ.com, you are way behind by the numbers. China’s the most popular instant messaging service is also the world’s third most popular one, according to Wikipedia. Entrepreneurs and researchers from China discussed where the social media business is going. It was surprising to hear that hundreds of million Chinese do […]

Catch me if you can!

Puzzle takers! Every year Sandy and Sarah Weisz design a twisted race-style puzzle for their friends. A Chicago based web-designer, Sandy’s curiosity as a child drew his friends’ attention when he decided to celebrate his birthday differently. Sarah, who is also a writing consultant for non-profit organizations, says it is very interesting how a group […]

Moving from Words to Pictures

We all agree that Monday morning is the toughest day to be creative. Can you visualize why? Five panelists; Sunni Brown owner of Bright Info Design, Tom Crawford CEO of VizThink, Dave Gray chairman of XPLANE, Lee LeFever principal of Common Craft, and Dan Roam president of Digital Roam INC., talked about how to visualize […]

James Powderly, an open source artist who founded Graffiti Research Lab and political activist, talked about his work Monday in his keynote address at SXSW Interactive 2009. Check out the video below to see what he said. ]