At SXSW, I joined Laura Sydell ( @ Sydell ) for NPR interview: controlling your computer with a wave of your hand. The Leap Motion controller detects the motion of all five fingers as you comfortably wave them in the air above the device — you can even use both hands! Currently available for pre-order for $ 79.88, this device is a clear fit for 3D modeling applications and games. While professional 3D modelers will always require precision controls, it is …
We're back! Once again, along with my partners at 500 Startups, we are proud to present the most substantive track at SXSW: http://leanstartupsxsw.co/
There was a running joke last year that "the Lean Startup track was the only place at SXSW you couldn't get out of the building." That's because the room we were in was so packed, the only way to stay for the next session was to refuse to give up your seat. Luckily, in a room full of entrepreneurs, …
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INT. OFFICE: A team of enthusiastic young folk rush to get their "game changing" app ready for SXSW. A cacophony of phone calls, typing, and organizing swag.
EXT. PATIO: A team of folks that have done the SXSW ritual before look at their calendar, note it's almost the middle of March, and shrug. They go back to drinking a tasty beverage and working at their own pace.
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- Global Nerdy: Evgeny Morozov and Tim O'Reilly's Twitter Debate About Silicon Valley and its Effect on San Francisco's Culture
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- Lessons Learned: SXSW updates
…perhaps it's my bias: I know Tim O'Reilly, and the last time I saw him (at SxSW 2012), he stood up from the middle of his conversation, yelled " Joey!" and gave me a big hug.
As much as I like watching a good heated exchange, I'm with Jeff Sonstein, who tweeted this comment in the middle of the back-and-forth between Morozov and O'Reilly:
@ evgenymorozov if you 2 don't get involved in a flame-war, IMHO you could spark some excellent & …
…Zuckerburg on the conference circuit once and Jobs zero times, in an appalling talk at SXSW (yes, that one) and that's it. But I don't think they relied on the being super e-famous to get past. They just got on and created.
Creating awesome stuff
I suspect we all got into web design for the same reason. Whether or not your reasons have changed now - we all wanted to create cool stuff. This is why I have self-taught myself the ability to do it all. Creating is fun, be it online, …
…like to discuss, please add them to the comments.
Further reading:
More thoughts on SoC, CSS, and HTML from Jonathan Snook
Andy Hume's SXSW talk CSS For Grownups
Jeremy Keith's 2006 ALA article about the CPB Separation
Neils Matthjis writing about HTML Components
- McKinney Station: LESS, CSS Frameworks, and Rails
- Lee Munroe: How To Setup A Reusable Framework For Your Next Website
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Dan Webb - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- Developing with Style: CSS Pick and Mix Classes
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 363 — Playing JavaScript Weekly bingo
- elc technologies - Blog : Ruby on Rails, iPhone, Flash, Agile, Interactive Design: Make your buttons look super awesome
Filmmaker Joe Avella tells the story of how he made a feature film with only $ 2000 raised on Kickstarter:
After several years of making shorts, I finally got into my first "real" film festival at SXSW, in 2009...
To my surprise, the film festival was a bust...
It seemed every other filmmaker at SXSW went to a film school and/or lived in an industry town, and had come with the notion of being discovered too. But unlike me, they were carrying around a big amount of film related debt and a bigger sense of entitlement...
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Part of it is still due to the shock. I stopped going to design conferences after SXSW 2008, and only started back in 2012. I was tired of the speakers saying the same things I heard years earlier, and I just wanted to get on with my work. It was therapeutic and something I recommend for everyone. But I wanted to start getting back into them, meeting new people and enjoying myself around like-minded folks. But after my hiatus I saw speakers I had never heard of (which I loved) but who I felt hadn't …
…spent hours immersed in riveting conversations over beer, we found the technical discussions in the SXSW presentations to be lacking. Still reeling from the adrenaline of the four day trip, we spent the flight home dreaming up different events to satisfy the software dev community back home in Toronto. We came up with some criteria:
Our ideal event had to:
Be very technical and geared specifically to developers;
Encourage people in the room to learn from each other;
Feature experts in …
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TLDR: Two things: 1) Uncle Sam (and I) want you to be an entrepreneur inside the US Federal Government as a White House Innovation Fellow . 2) All video from the SXSW Lean Startup track is now available for free .
At SXSW in 2011, I had a really unusual breakfast meeting. First of all, it was at 7am on a Sunday, when almost everyone at SXSW was asleep. Second, it was the day after the first SXSW Lean Startup track, and I was exhausted. Third, one …
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