By Melody Mendoza Are you bored with the current mobile experience? Have you ever wondered why the screen is box-shaped? Can you imagine a better, non-traditional mobile experience? These were the questions Sung Kim was asking himself last year. Then, he had an idea of a new mobile experience. He was looking at the wideframe […]
By Melody Mendoza Blair Reeves, product leader of IBM Digital Analytics, doesn’t think so. Even though the broadcasted message coming out of the privacy debate is that online users are concerned about privacy online, Reeves said the reality is actually that the public at large is not. “That’s what’s misleading about the privacy argument,” Reeves […]
Whether you find yourself in the midst of SXSW Interactive as a student, faculty member, panelist or attendee, we here at SXTXState.com have compiled a list of tips of how to keep up and ahead while enjoying all that the festival has to offer. Tips from Student Participants: Bring plenty of hand sanitizer. Bring a […]
Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS Monday, March 11 | 11 am – 1:30 pm AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 204, 1900 University Ave This is the first year that SXSW Interactive will feature workshops as part of its programming. These sessions will be more interactive than traditional panel sessions. To give you a taste of […]
In case you missed it, SXTXState hosted its first hackathon just a few weeks ago to work on a mobile storytelling app using the Ushahidi platform. Most of us had never been to a hackathon before, but those who had said this was a very different environment from most. For starters, at this hackathon, women […]
Around 60 million websites around the world are powered by WordPress, and nearly a quarter of all new active domains use it. At the same time, an increasing number of organizations using the content management system are looking to engage audiences across platforms with responsive design. Jesse Friedman, director of Web and interface development at […]
When Kevin Nguyen and Nick Martens founded The Bygone Bureau in 2007, few online publications offered outlets for the kind of pieces they wanted to publish: long-form essays examining life, culture and art. At the time, the rise of easy to create multimedia content seemed to be sounding a death knell for long-form writing on […]