According to Lisa Woods and the rest of the ‘Doing It in Public’ panelists, beacons, or Bluetooth Low Energy devices, will be the next big trend in the Internet of Things. BLE technology has primarily been used in retail and advertising, but with the Asunder project, this group suggests beacons be used for storytelling purposes. […]
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Alexis Ohanian’s panel, Tales of US Entrepreneurship Beyond Silicon Valley, highlighted the importance of an open internet.
Internet pioneer, Ethernet inventor, entrepreneur, and now UT professor, Bob Metcalfe, entertained SXSW attendees for an hour with his newest goal of trying to “make Austin a better Silicon Valley” through his “One Semester Startup” course at the University of Texas.
This year with so many panels and events going on simultaneously, it is easy to overlook or miss a panel of great value/importance. On Monday March 12th, “The iPad: The Second Coming of the CD-ROM” is a SXSWi panel any digital user or producer should not miss. When the CD-ROM became mainstreamed in 1985, the […]
Over the last quarter of the 20th Century, technology evolved at an astonishing rate. With the advent of the internet, the cellphone and the ever decreasing size of computers, people began using technology for more than just games and business. In the first 10 years of the 21st Century we saw cellphones go from clunky […]
“I’ve always been a movie buff,” said Col Needham, Founder and Managing Director of IMDB.com. Needham was interviewed Monday afternoon by IndieWIRE Co-Founder & Editor in Chief, Eugene Hernandez. They discussed the history of IMDB, how it is managed and where it is going. Being a film fan as long as he can recall, Needham […]