My mind wasn’t blown this year. No Zeitgeist-nailing speaker convinced me that the world was about to change. Nor was there a high-profile washout, a speaker whose on-stage fail created its own newsworthy drama. I’m talking about SXSW Interactive, the mammoth convention/trade show/meet-up/party spot that crowds the stage with the more homespun SXSW Film in Austin each year.
This was my fifth SXSW, and, a couple of years ago, in the midst of the indie film depression, I realized something. The positive energy, the feeding frenzy, the dollars — most of it was over on the interactive side. The kind of people who might have tossed some coin into the indie film investment pool — they were funding apps. And, in terms of the panels, while the film industry droned on about distribution and Diy in rooms holding 200 or 300, the interactive folk were discussing big issues like...
This was my fifth SXSW, and, a couple of years ago, in the midst of the indie film depression, I realized something. The positive energy, the feeding frenzy, the dollars — most of it was over on the interactive side. The kind of people who might have tossed some coin into the indie film investment pool — they were funding apps. And, in terms of the panels, while the film industry droned on about distribution and Diy in rooms holding 200 or 300, the interactive folk were discussing big issues like...
- 3/21/2011
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Twitter has been quickly and quietly evolving new features right from the start of its short and happy life. Now there's a rumor swirling that the site is about to implement a "shoutout" feature--a new way to give praise to a specific user.
The rumor has popped up at Louis Gray's Silicon Valley blog. Gray discovered an odd and official-looking Twitter feed called @twittershoutout. While 175 people are following the feed, it's private--and many of those 175 are people officially connected with Twitter. The logo, a silhouette of a bird on a gold medallion, also looks pretty official. The feed is listed under "official accounts operated by Twitter."
It's possible that this feed is purely intended for Twitter employees, a public reward scheme for doing fabulous work at Twitter HQ. But we like Gray's speculation that some kind of official shoutout system for the rest of us is en route. Indeed,...
The rumor has popped up at Louis Gray's Silicon Valley blog. Gray discovered an odd and official-looking Twitter feed called @twittershoutout. While 175 people are following the feed, it's private--and many of those 175 are people officially connected with Twitter. The logo, a silhouette of a bird on a gold medallion, also looks pretty official. The feed is listed under "official accounts operated by Twitter."
It's possible that this feed is purely intended for Twitter employees, a public reward scheme for doing fabulous work at Twitter HQ. But we like Gray's speculation that some kind of official shoutout system for the rest of us is en route. Indeed,...
- 8/5/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Here are a few links I sent to my Instapaper account and have been reading this weekend. * When we queried a few filmmakers for a column on software and apps in the new issue of Filmmaker, I noted the number of respondents who had migrated to the Android operating system. I recalled meeting an Android developer at SXSW this year, and he told me he was planning for the platform’s rapid rise. He also said that he was an Apple fan too, and he felt the competition would be a good thing for both platforms. There’s an exchange along these lines going on between Robert Scoble at his Scobleizer blog (“Why I Can’t Kick the iPhone Habit”) and Louis Gray (“Why I Turned in My iPhone and Went Android”). For...
- 7/11/2010
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
These days, we're all public figures. We're sharing our friends on Facebook, our photos on Flickr, our music on Last.fm, and our goofy links insightful observations on Twitter.
So when Fast Company set out to capture the personalities of our 100 Most Creative People in Business, we started--where else?--by looking for online profiles. Melinda Gates (#2), for example, has more than 50 Google News hits. J.J. Abrams (#14), Tyler Perry (#21), and Pharrell Williams (#36) all have lengthy Wikipedia entries and flashy professional Web sites. And searching Tyra Banks (#49) on YouTube spawns 21,000 video clips (and several cheap laughs).
But when it comes to sharing themselves--not just their businesses, but their business--our creative class clams up. Only 33 have Twitter accounts. Just 19 maintain personal blogs. And four have Flickr pages. In fact, when we emailed bicycle designer Larry Chen (#89) for a link to his blog or photo account,...
So when Fast Company set out to capture the personalities of our 100 Most Creative People in Business, we started--where else?--by looking for online profiles. Melinda Gates (#2), for example, has more than 50 Google News hits. J.J. Abrams (#14), Tyler Perry (#21), and Pharrell Williams (#36) all have lengthy Wikipedia entries and flashy professional Web sites. And searching Tyra Banks (#49) on YouTube spawns 21,000 video clips (and several cheap laughs).
But when it comes to sharing themselves--not just their businesses, but their business--our creative class clams up. Only 33 have Twitter accounts. Just 19 maintain personal blogs. And four have Flickr pages. In fact, when we emailed bicycle designer Larry Chen (#89) for a link to his blog or photo account,...
- 5/27/2009
- by Dan Macsai
- Fast Company
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