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SXSWi Aftermath: Social Creation with Adam of Mowgli Games

Startup Village Accelerator Alternate Mowgli Games is soon to release their latest application (Songster) during South by Southwest, the social phenomena they are preaching is what makes this content worth watching. “Songster” is a Facebook application which empowers end-users with music remixing tools. Users participating in this “Social Creation” activity develop pieces of work from […]

Christopher Groskopf, lead developer of the 2011 Knight News Challenge winning PANDA Project, was here at SXSW Interactive showcasing a demo of the newsroom data appliance. Groskopf talked with me about how the PANDA Project looks to solve the problem of knowledge management in newsrooms.

iPad Theater panel discussing their movie Holy Hell

The lines have blurred between different forms of media with the integration of interaction and traditional forms of media in particular, the integration of film and interactive media. The film Holy Hell made a innovative step towards blending movies and viewers’ experience by becoming the first film to premier content as an iPad app. “We […]

Downloaded: An Interview with Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning

The founders of Napster, Sean Parker (you know, Justin Timberlake played him in the social network) and Shawn Fanning, spoke on the first day of the SXSW Music Conference.   [<a href=”http://storify.com/cindyroyal/d” target=”_blank”>View the story “Downloaded: The Sean Parker & Shawn Fanning Interview” on Storify</a>]

Walking into this panel, one would have expected a round-robin discussion amongst the five panelists about new technologies that incorporate dance and tech, yet the panel consisted of an advanced discussion about two projects. The first project in cooperation with the Guerrilla Dance Project was the Rolling Stones, and the second project was Danceroom-Spectroscopy, which […]