Matthew Ogle and Dave Haynes – Love, Music, & APIs Dave Haynes (VP Business Development for SoundCloud, founder of OpenMusicMedia) and Matthew Ogle (The Echo Nest music intelligence platform, former head of web product at Last.fm) presented information on how the love of music and application programming interfaces (APIs) are coming together. Driven by their […]
I’ve been so busy checking out all the panel descriptions that I haven’t really given any thought to which ones I’d actually be attending. So with the main event looming ever closer and the more experienced showgoers beating it into my head that “preparedness is key to survival,” I suppose it’s time to start laying […]
Sleeping Giants – SXSW vs. the Edinburgh Festivals in 2020, a SXSWi panel facilitated by Kath Mainland of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (http://www.edfringe.com/) will examine the differences (and similarities) between Edinburgh’s successful (and more traditional) festival hosting style and Austin’s SXSW “festival” (though it is oh, so much more). Ms. Mainland’s focus in this, her […]
If rule number one for content creators is to make amazing content, then rule number two is don’t get sued! Josh Sussman, counsel for CollegeHumor, Koethi Zan, counsel for MTV and Luke Paglia, counsel for American-Eagle marketing all spoke about legal issues the content creators need to understand. The panelists were quick to point out that this […]
Scott Dadich of Wired and Jeremy Clark of Adobe led a discussion entitled After Magazines: WIRED’s Digital Rebirth. Experience has shown that web is good for some things and print for others. It is Wired’s intent to combine the two. In the near future many magazines will be downloadable to a user’s portable device. The panel […]
Austin Kleon, Sunni Brown, Mike Rohde and Dave Gray like to draw, and they like to share information. They combine their passions into something called visual note-taking. Some might find visual note-taking daunting, but these four break it down to make it not so scary. And in typical visual note-taker fashion, the session was mostly […]