January 2010

By Yvonne Paris Rob Gonda of Sapient (a digital, advertising, interactivity and consulting firm) thinks that in the future, your refrigerator might be able to tweet that you’re running out of milk and butter. He aims to imagine the entire internet as a focus group in his SXSW panel “Real-time everything: the Era of Communication […]

By Gio Metcalf In a panel called “I Don’t Trust You One Stinking Bit,” Chris Brogan, president of New Marketing Labs will discuss the importance of what gives people confidence on the web and how his company can help any business create a company that users will love. Chris Brogan is a New York Times […]

By Caitlin Moore In a panel conversation called Is The Brain The Ultimate Computer Interface?, contributing editor for Scientific American and freelance science writer Christie Nicholson will address trends that sound outlandishly futuristic but actually aren’t far from becoming a reality. Accepted in the first round of selections for SXSW 2010, this panel will tackle […]

By Trey Hatt It’s a nightmare scenario: a young entrepreneur or artist sets up a Web site to distribute the product of her years of hard work in the arts scene, only to find out she doesn’t have the rights to that work. Attorney Robert Strent, a partner at Grubman, Indursky & Shire, PC will […]

By Sang Hee Park Tiffani Jones owns Second and Park, a web writing business, and will be hosting a SXSW panel, titled “Writing Web Content For A Living.” She focuses on copywriting and content strategy. Before starting Second and Park, Tiffani was a community/marketing specialist and project manager at Blue Flavor, and attended graduate school […]

By Mark Mederson The digital divide is not simply about the “haves” verus the “have nots,” or, those who own a computer versus those who don’t. According to Jessamyn West, the organizer of the panel, How The Other Half Lives – Touring The Digital Divide, it’s not merely about access to the technology, it has […]