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SXSW Day 1 Recap

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

SXSW Day 1 recap

 

So The first actual day of SXSW comes to a close and it’s off to a good start. I’m with my colleague Evan Lask. I went to the following presentations/panels.

Minority Report is Real

This was more of an idea panel than anything on the potential future of multi touch interfaces. Most of the information covered in this one is posted on their blog set up specifically for that purpose, that’s here. http://www.immersiveux.com/

Oooh, That’s Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design)

Paul Annett from Clearleft had an excellent presentation on some of the craziest places a designer/developer could draw inspiration from. I’ll post a link dump later today with some of the examples he had showed.

Social Engineering: Scam Your Way Into Anything or From Anybody 

Not at all relevant to my professional career. It didn’t matter, this was pretty rad in all. I’ve watched a few episodes of Scam School on Revision3 before, so I had an idea of what Brian Brushwood was going to cover. He did a high level rundown of different ways to have influence over people with out them realizing it, as well as a few tips on how to identify and try to circumvent a con. Overall, I I loved this presentation, Brushwood is an excellent presenter.

For day 1,it was 3 for 3 of cool presentations, off to a great start.

I’m doing realtime updates on twitter, under the username flipnode, and recaps as soon as I can get them online.

Hypocrite? Me? Wowzers!

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

Well, I complain about it constantly with colleages, I rag on friends who use it. Basically, I never really got it. Yes folks, I’m talking about Twitter.

I was sitting on the bus on Saturday and decided to install a Twinkle on my iPhone, since I’ve been hearing good things about it. As a result of that installation I’ve also set up a twitter account (flipnode) to play around with it.

Before this, I could never understand why Twitter was making so much noise in terms of buzz on the web. After spending a couple days posting to it when I have nothing else to do, I think I can learn to love it. At it’s very core (to me anyways), you’re essentially sending text messages to the Internet at large. At first it seems bizarre, sending messages out into the series of tubes we all know and love, not knowing who will read it, or where it will get quoted; but once you get past that I think it’s a pretty awesome thing. I find it amazing that a random post can spawn a discussion between a whole bunch of potentially random users. Talk about social at it’s finest.

Bottom line, I totally dig it. Huzzah microblogging!