Development and Apps

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Open Web Platforms: Hopes & Fears with Tim Berners-Lee

It’s not everyday you sit less than 50 feet away from the inventor of the web. Yes, inventor of the WORLD WIDE WEB, the platform we use to do pretty much everything now days. Tim Berners-Lee is at SXSW to discuss the importance of the open web during the panel Open Web Platforms: Hopes and Fears. […]

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Preview: Who Owns the Data? Self-Tracking to Health 2.0

Who Owns the Data? Self-Tracking to Health 2.0 Saturday, March 9 12:30PM – 1:30PM Sheraton Austin, Creekside In today’s world, it’s not enough to only consider how web and smart phone data influence your life. What about the data being collected about your health? In the past, data was paper based and technically was owned […]

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SXSW Trade Show, Photo Courtesy of Merrick Ales

SXSW Trade Show Sunday, March 10 – Wednesday, March 13 Austin Convention Center Exhibit Halls 3 & 4 The SXSW Trade Show can seem daunting at first glance for those of us that have never attempted to navigate its inner workings before. Fortunately, I have a few tips from Trade Show expert Morgan Catalina, who […]

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Preview: Customer Support Gets Augmented

Customer Support Gets Augmented Tuesday March, 12 3:30-4:p30 Austin Convention Center Ballroom BC Augmented reality enhances the perception of reality by offering a “real-world” environment through computer-generated sensory input like video, graphics or GPPS data. Typically this innovative form of reality has been used for marketing purposes.  Hewlett-Packard is taking it one step further by […]

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Weekly News Roundup

This week leads up to the Superbowl, and the New Orleans tech community has developed some helpful apps for the city’s visitors. Read about this and more in today’s Weekly News Roundup!

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What would inspire bright, creative, entrepreneurial developers and designers volunteer a year of their time to help American cities solve problems they otherwise couldn’t with the massive funding crisis faced by the majority of cities? That question led Jennifer Pahlka to found Code for America.