Edward Snowden spoke at SXSW over a very choppy video feed, but it wasn’t the fault of technology, his signal was bouncing over seven proxies in order to keep him safe. The thirty year old is currently living in Russia after he made public classified documents about NSA spying programs last summer. Ben Wizner and […]
Will SXSW Gaming be the next big branch of the South By brand? Pete Fenlon, CEO of Mayfair Games certainly thinks so. As of now, the gaming branch is still a free, open to the public event that is featured the first weekend of SXSWi. Fenlon thinks gaming will go the way of Edu or […]
We are at the halfway mark now! SXSW Interactive is always full of celebrities. Priscillia and Melody talk about their favorite celeb highlights at the festival this year.
Space, the final frontier. Star Trek portrayed a future where Earth had become a utopia, where the human race had united as one and traversed the cosmos. It also had incredible technology from the 23rd century. Some of that tech is quickly becoming reality. The Techie Trekkies: Bringing Star Trek to Life panel was about […]
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Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute was on hand to discuss the importance in how news information is distributed and Gilad Lotja a Data Scientists from beta works represented the complex side of the equation providing what was most likely high level information to a mixed audience of journalists and marketers. Kelly that algorthems are […]
The panels and speakers featured at SXSW Interactive are usually amazing. Trail blazers in their fields. However, the festival is not just all about panels. Meet-ups and parties are also a significant part of the festival, providing a valuable platform to meet, chat and exchange knowledge with those in your industry or an industry you […]