South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
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SXSW: International Companies To Keep An Eye, Ear, And Brain On
Scattered in the landscape of the SXSW trade show, companies from around the world planted their flags to claim different digital plots of land as their own. Some of these companies were more successful than others and we’ll likely see them show up again as either helping to revolutionize the way we think about X […]
SXSW: Adult Industry Faces Struggles To Keep Up With Technology
“What we’re going to discuss here is of an adult nature. If you are offended by such topics or images, you should leave now. No? Okay, let’s begin then.” This is how Jay Kopita (Vice President of adult industry news site YNOT) introduced himself and other speakers yesterday at the “Adult Industry Trends & Their […]
SXSW: Opening Remarks From Bre Pettis, From The Future
Festival goers have packed the Austin Convention Center’s Exhibit Hall 5, waiting for the official kick off to SXSW Interactive when Director Hugh Forrest makes his first appearance. When Forrest does take the stage, he claims the rain currently drizzling on Austin is a geek innovation. There’s a short welcome speech and a mention of […]
Domino’s Pizza + Singing Anime Character = Hypnotically Awkward Video
Normally, we at Techcitement blanch at the thought of publicizing a company’s obvious attempt at viral-video marketing, but sometimes the stars align to make the perfect mix of humor, marketing, and startled disbelief. Such is the case with this beautifully odd video from the best terrible pizza franchise in your town, Domino’s Pizza. Now I […]
Pre-SXSW: Create Whatever You Can At SXSW Create
SXSW Interactive is almost upon us and if you’re planning to wade your way through this massive event full of digital wonders, Techcitement wants to be there to hold your virtual hand. In the spirit of the week and a half long festival (including Interactive, Film, and Music) of emerging properties and trending topics is […]
Recycled R³bots Rule
Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot from Mystery Science Theater 3000. K-9 from Doctor Who. Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Fiction is full of robots that charm us, whether it’s from their unique designs or their witty dialogue or their programmed personalities. For myriad and often debated reasons, robots hold […]
The Onion Gets In Real Trouble With Fake Tweet About Nine Year Old Movie Star
I like the word cunt. Along with fuck, cunt is one of my favorite words. In my native South London, I use it as punctuation. A noun, a verb, and an adjective. Savoring the hard C, the drawn out U, ending in the satisfying NT. A word that is like the sex it describes, just […]
ABC Has An Award-Worthy Oscars App For Android, iOS, And Kindle
Less than a week away from the 2013 Academy Awards and ABC Digital has given film freaks, celebrity hangers-on, and even red carpet mavens an impressive mobile app that delivers an award-worthy experience. Here’s ABC’s video introduction to the app: I’ve been using the Android version of ABC’s Oscars app for several days now, and […]
Hulu’s Late Valentine’s/Early President’s Day Gift Is The Free Criterion Collection Weekend
This weekend and this weekend only, the entire world is welcome to a festival made up of what are arguably the best movies ever made when the folks at Hulu put the fabulous Criterion Collection online for free (well okay, with commercials, but still, close enough). All of the Criterion movies are regularly available on […]