Brandon Stetton the photographer of Humans Of New York started his panel by admitting he isn’t the best speaker. Telling a story of a speech he gave in front of 800 kids where his nervousness spiraled out of control and he ended up getting a round of what he called “pity applause” Brandon says after […]
Josh COnstine of Techcrunch sat down with David Byttow on why we need more anonymous social networks and to talk about his new app secret which has only been live for thirty five days. Secret allows you to share secrets within your network of of facebook friends and twitter followers but doesn’t allow you to […]
Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange skyped into to SXSW. The talk was led by Benjamin Palmer co-founder of the digital agency “The Barbarian Group.” The talk was unfortunately plagued with technical difficulties and Benjamin was forced to text Julian questions as the sound on one side was out. Assange spoke on how twenty-somethings are more […]
The second screen revolution is on. Jesse Redniss of Mass Relevance and Greg Consiglio of Viggle led the panel on how to monetize the second screen. Using a format that mirrored the second screen experience they invited two audience members from the audience to participate in their panel. One was from network TV who has […]
Austin known as entrepreneurial town is host to dozens and dozens of startups. With a strong technology community, slogans such as support local businesses, and sxsw interactive entrepreneurs love bringing their startups to Austin to a culture that values and understands innnovation. Hosted by Capital Factories ten startups in Austin were given a few minutes […]
SXTXSTATE alumni Kiana Fitzgerald spoke today at SXSW. Her panel focused on black twitter. With a wide range of topics ranging from how brands can interact with black twitter, to the different subsects of black twitter and how black twitter can react as group to situations occuring on the twitter platform The second part of […]
Gary Vaynerchuck – entrepreneur, celebrated social media guru and public speaker – was one of the first panels to talk at SXSW Friday. As a long time SXSW attendee, Gary’s panel seemed to be a mix of solid, veteran SXSW advice, as well as adrenaline and fuel to get the crowd sparked for five days […]