Friday

The Secret History of Hypertext

“The technology industry in particular does not have a strong sense of its own history,” Wright said. “Partly due to the nature of the industry, which is always focused on looking forward for the next big thing.” Alex Wright, author of “Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age,” began his session, “The […]

#nofilter: Paul Tyma on Privacy versus Participation

Imagine adding a person’s contact to your calendar because you have an upcoming meeting with them.  You’ve never met them before, this will be your first time sitting down together. Imagine now that an app on your phone, synced to your calendar, can deliver you a customized, comprehensive dossier on that person half an hour […]

Top Ten Startups In Austin

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 […]

How Twitter Humorists Landed Sweet Real World Gigs

Jenny Johnson writes for GQ. Josh Hara is the director of social creative of Resource, an integrated marketing agency, in Columbus, Ohio. Megan Amram is a writer for the NBC show Parks and Recreation. Four years ago, none of them had these jobs. All three of these individuals got famous from the same thing: telling […]

Engage or Die: Multicultural Millennials Matter

The world will one day become colorblind, and we will all just be beige. As far as millennials are concerned, this day is already here! To reach your target markets, not only do you have to be digital, but your content has to be adaptable, flexible and relevant to all ethinicites. So how exactly do […]

Not Enough Of Us: We Are Not Black Twitter

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 […]