Friday

[View the story “Think not what your customer can do for you…But what you can do for your customer!” on Storify]

SXTXstate student bloggers help out with award-winning social media curation start-up Storify! [View the story “SXTXstate at Storify” on Storify]

Lindsay Stillman is Senior Producer at GSD&M. During SxSwi 2011, she is acting as a “Surrogate” for GSD&M. “Surrogates” are the title given to GSD&M employees who go out and actively participate in SxSw. Afterward, it is their duty to come back to the agency and report what they saw, learned & discovered to the […]

Interview at Gowalla

I got to meet Josh Williams, Co-Founder of Gowalla, which was amazing! In this interview, Andrew Waldrup, Texas State graduate & Gowalla employee, explains Gowalla’s presence at SxSw. The Gowalla airstream is up on 5th street in between Trinity and San Jacinto. Gowalla and crew were on site handing out awesome T-shirts and passports for […]

Fireside Chat with Jason Calacanis and Tim O'Reilly

Well, there wasn’t fire, but that didn’t cool down the excitement for the first big chat of SXSW Interactive. This featured event delivered on the big idea philosophy right off the bat. Publisher Tim O’Reilly, as interviewed by Web entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, spoke about “happy accidents” that turned out to be successes during his career, […]