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SXSW 2013: The Highlights

Justin Davis — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:00:03 +0000

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 […]

SXSW: Technology, Thy Name Is Woman

Megan Moten — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:10:15 +0000

Every year, the Interactive portion of SXSW exhibits new technologies and introduces the people behind them. Pop culture would have you believe that women are uninterested in science and technology, with depictions of the people in those fields being distinctly male. This could not be farther from the truth if the impressive lineup of women […]

SXSW: International Companies To Keep An Eye, Ear, And Brain On

Justin Davis — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:30:27 +0000

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

Justin Davis — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:32:49 +0000

“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: 3D Gun Printing And Practical Anarchy

Megan Moten — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:26:43 +0000

File sharing has long been a part of the internet discussion. The sharing of music, movies, books, and other forms of media are common place, although legally murky. Attracting a lot of attention recently is Cody Wilson, Director of Defense Distributed (DD), an organization committed to sharing weapons designs to be fabricated through 3D printers. […]

SXSW: Bing Gordon On Why The Cable Companies Fear Your Xbox

Ben Masten — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:14:05 +0000

Bing Gordon’s resume reads like a who’s who of major players in the last 20 years of digital media. Amongst other things, he’s a former chief creative officer at Electronic Arts and a current board member at Amazon and Zynga. At his SXSW panel on Tuesday, Gordon played the role of prognosticator and, surprisingly, poet. […]

ComiXology Suspends Offer For 700 Free Marvel Comics

Justin Davis — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:38:26 +0000

The past few days have been busy for ComiXology thanks to different developments at SXSW. In fact, it seems like they’ve been a bit too busy for the company to handle. First, ComiXology announced a new Submit program for aspiring comic book creators to self-publish through its platform. Then, among other announcements, Marvel broadcast that […]

SXSW: Richard Garriott On The Cheapest, Best Ways To Go To Space

Ben Masten — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:00:23 +0000

Richard Garriott’s Father, Owen, was an astronaut. The neighbors on either side of his childhood home, Joe Engle and Hoot Gibson, were astronauts. “Going to space,” Garriott said at SXSW on Monday, “seemed like something everybody just did.” Garriott has since made millions developing video games (famously inserting himself into the Ultima series of role-playing […]

SXSW: OUYA’s CEO Thinks The OUYA Is Awesome

Ben Masten — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:26:30 +0000

Julie Urhman might be a great fundraiser, but she’s no saleswoman. The CEO of OUYA — the Kickstarter-funded wunderkompany that raised more than $8.5 million dollars to build an independent, developer-friendly video game console — thinks her product is incredible. But if you press her for details on why you, the consumer, might actually purchase […]

SXSW: 100 Year Starship Panel Explains How Interstellar Travel Can Affect Life On Earth

Justin Davis — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:22:52 +0000

Raucous applause greeted guests of the 100 Year Starship panel at SXSW as they took the stage. It seems little introduction was necessary for this crowd to heap praise upon the panel, but the moderator Benjamin Palmer (of the interactive marketing firm The Barbarian Group) introduced the panelists anyway as: Dr. Mae Jemison (astronaut, first […]