Tag: SXSW2006
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Goodbye Austin and SXSW2006
Well, it took me until today to be able to write my goodbye to Austin. Man, that town and conference kicks some serious ass. Some of my favorite moments from this past week: Bruce Sterling‘s closing remarks on the state of the world. I’ve never been moved to tears by a public speaker before… I’ve…
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SXSW2006: Bruce Sterling – The State of the World
*Note* Live blogging will miss nuance and won’t be an exact representation of the speaker’s intent. Bruce Sterling isn’t throwing a party this year, but he’s loving the bubble echo of this 2.0 SXSW2006 get together. He says “enjoy it while you can.” He’s loving flickr and Wikipedia; companies that are completely unlike anything else,…
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SXSW2006 Day 4: Cluetrain: Seven Years Later
Doc Searls On marketing consulting: There’s money to be made in prolonging the problem. On the title: The cluetrain stopped there (Silicon Valley) four times a day, but never made a delivery. How the book came after the site received a buzz: The book deal got worked out based on how much consulting money wey’d…
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SXSW2006 Day Three: Serious Games for Learning
Jim Brazell moderates this panel and kicks off the discussion. The X-Box 360 costs $300. In 1995 the same computing power would have cost $100M. Ubiquitous computing is the fourth generation of computing; a system on a chip. Cooper’s law says that the capability of wireless computers is doubling every year. The convergence of science…
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SXSW2006 Day Three: Everyware – The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
Adam Greenfield is dealing with Godly AI interfaces. What is ubiquitous computing? Well, what happens when computers get cheaper, faster, better? They become invisible, but all around us. The possibilities to crunch concepts, data, information explode. We move into a post-graphical user interface, from gesture to voice. Multiple users, multiple spaces. Moving away from the…
Sean Patrick Coon 