Amber is a blogger for her own blog The Amber Show and a podcaster with her own local show Hey Brooklyn, a weekly chat with the owner of a small creative businesses in the borough. She’s 26 years old, lives in Brooklyn, is married and has […] Read more »
Nichelle Stephens calls herself a “multiblogger, bookkeeper, cupcake enthusiast, and social media strategist.” She blogs about personal finance for freelancers at Keeping Nickels and co-founded and co-produces the comedy blog Chicks and Giggles. Stephens explains why she likes Twickie. What’s Your Favorite Web App, Nichelle Stephens? […] Read more »
Chris Brogan is… a typist. Or so he says. The rest of us know him as a generous, prolific and strategic mind in the social mediasphere. Brogan is president of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency. He’s also responsible for the New Marketing Summit […] Read more »
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A session called Bootstrap Your Startup at South by Southwest 2009 provided valuable insight for the many web workers who are either embarking on their own online business venture or considering doing so. Led by Bijoy Goswami, CEO of Aviri, and Marcy Hoen, founder of Austin […] Read more »
This year’s South By Southwest interactive festival saw the arrival of over 30 British startups as part of a “Digital Mission” to bring the country’s most promising web startups to a global showcase. This mission was backed by Sun’s Startup Essentials program, TechCrunch UK and UK […] Read more »
I met Nisha Chittal, Associate Editor at CitizenJanePolitics.com, at the SXSW panel “Are Women Taken More Seriously On the Web?” Chittal is also an online producer, editorial board member and political columnist at UniversityChic.com and an intern at ReadWriteWeb. Nisha gives a little insight as to […] Read more »
“Interview Cory Doctorow.” RIP director Brett Gaylor’s answer to the question of how to attain attention for your projects online got big laughs at a SXSW panel titled Marketing Meets New Media. But for those who can’t get the Boing Boing editor’s attention, don’t worry — […] Read more »
Every year when I make my yearly geek pilgrimage to Austin for SXSW, I struggle with how much time to spend at BarCampAustin vs. SXSW, because they usually overlap. I love attending SXSW, but I am also a BarCamp fan, so the choice is always a […] Read more »
I’ve been at SXSW attending sessions, seeing product demos and interviewing tech company founders. I’ve also been asking anyone who identifies themselves as a web worker about their favorite web app and how it helps them with their work. Here is the first of a series […] Read more »
Without even the promise of free wine, Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk (an NTV Breakout Video Star and old favorite) packed an auditorium here at South by Southwest Sunday evening with the faithfully devoted of the Web 2.0. Moderator Susanna Hamner, a self-employed writer, Jenna Wortham […] Read more »
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Location-based services finally seem to be hitting their stride after years of promise. This year at the South by Southwest (SXSW) interactive festival in Austin, Texas, several LBS startups are launching. To understand some of the costs associated with getting a user’s location information, I chatted […] Read more »
In an interesting post over at GigaOM, Stacey Higginbotham notes that at the SXSW conference this year, there were far fewer notebooks on display and, correspondingly, a much larger number of people were using smartphones to stay connected. This certainly tallies with my experience since owning […] Read more »
Zak Knutson and Joey Figueroa of Chop Shop Entertainment are all about using webisodes to promote your film, but the role of the promotional webisode as it relates to mainstream content turns out to have some awkward side effects, as they discussed on a panel at […] Read more »
The tweets, blog posts and constant complaining about AT&T’s shoddy network coverage at South by Southwest has not fallen on deaf ears. Seth Bloom, a spokesman at AT&T, emailed me 10 minutes ago to say that the carrier is adding capacity to the downtown Austin network, […] Read more »
Twitter has jumped the shark for the digerati attending South by Southwest here in Austin. Daniel Terdiman at CNET points out what everyone trying to follow the #sxsw tweets has discovered — there are just too many of them. It seems that, while Twitter’s hardware can […] Read more »
After a day spent roaming the halls of the Austin Convention Center at South by Southwest listening in on other peoples’ conversations and tracking trends, I am somewhat surprised by the relative scarcity of notebooks. In years past, the halls were lined with people glued to […] Read more »
South by Southwest 2009, one of the largest and most widely-covered technology and Internet conferences of the year (and that’s to say nothing of the music and film portions!), is fast approaching. While many industry insiders will attend in person, SXSW will also be widely covered across a wide swath of mainstream media news web sites, blogs, YouTube, Qik, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, Tumblr, posterous and just about every other social media publishing platform that you can think of!
Here’s a guide to the SXSW 2009 Interactive panels that web workers worldwide should look out for. Read more »
MoTR 163 is 29:30 minutes long and is a 27.1 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and listen directly. HOSTS: James Kendrick (Houston), Matthew Miller (Seattle) and Kevin C. Tofel (Philadelphia) TOPICS: Matt has his Kindle 2. Here’s the good and […] Read more »
After a flight delay and hour long wait to check-in at my hotel, I finally made it the CES Unveiled show. There really wasn’t a ton “unveiled”, but I did want to get my hands on two MSI products. Here’s our brief first look at them. […] Read more »
Today’s Nokia buzz is sure to be surrounding the new N97 handset, which looks to be an HTC Tilt with gobs of storage and the 5th Edition of Symbian S60 at first glance. Since you won’t see the device for several months, you can whet your […] Read more »
Online Video Viewing Up 35.4 Percent Year-on-Year: Of 26,000 adults polled by Mediamark Research & Intelligence, 23.3 percent had watched online video in the past 30 days (which is actually a pretty low number as compared to data from comScore and others). In the same group, […] Read more »
After much talk about experimenting with live streaming video, YouTube dipped its toe in the water on the weekend, with a much-hyped event (at least in blogosphere terms) called YouTube Live, featuring some of the “cewebrities” that have emerged on YouTube over the past year or […] Read more »
With the tech conference season upon us, Found|READ thought some tips for how to master conference marketing on the cheap would be useful. Today’s tips are courtesy of serial entrepreneur Pete Grillo, currently founder of iterasi, a one-and a-half-year-old startup in Portland, Ore., that has built […] Read more »
Networking has always been a high art in business. Just ask Susan Roane, my mentor and author of the seminal tome, “How to Work a Room.” (I know a handful of VCs and startup kings on Sand Hill Road who have her book tucked into a […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: This is another in our series’ of founders’ diaries of their experiences, good and bad, attending tech’s biggest confabs. Also see, CES after 2 AM: Diary of a Founder’s ‘First Time.’ A mere 3 weeks before SXSW, my startup, MakeMeSustainable.com (MMS) was nominated as […] Read more »
With the newly released iPhone SDK, Webkit, Safari (now available on Mac & PC) and Apple’s professional audio and video software such as Logic, Final Cut and Shake, I was fully expecting to see a rather prominent Apple booth at the SXSW tradeshow. I did see […] Read more »
Editor’s Note: One of contributors, serial founder Aruni Gunasegaram attended SXSW Interactive for the first time this year, and she learned a lot. Aruni compiled a digest of takeaways, on funding, strategy, and using social media, on her blog entrepreMusings. She shares them with us here. […] Read more »
Wandering around the South by Southwest Conference in Austin this weekend and yesterday, I was struck by how few people were sporting MacBook Airs. iPhones, on the other hand, were everywhere. I watched four impromptu demos of new sites on the iPhones of four different entrepreneurs. […] Read more »
So I was at SXSW this week, where I saw first hand the hilarious debacle of an interview that the lovely (but maybe over-hyped) Business Week reporter, Sarah Lacy, did with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Read here for a short brief on the disaster, in which […] Read more »
I recently read Alex Iskold’s great piece 36 Startup Tips and began thinking that had I read this a year ago, maybe my own startup experience would have been smoother. (I’m a co-founder of Makemesustainable.com.) It is a daunting task to incubate and eventually launch a […] Read more »
Author and productivity expert David Allen, the man behind the Getting Things Done movement, says knowledge workers are stressed because they try keep track of all they have to do, even when it’s not what they’re focusing on. The key to productivity, he says, is “making […] Read more »
Random House has shown surprising savvy in using online video to promote their recent book releases. First, they sponsored a seven-minute short video collaboration between filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein to promote the latter’s latest Random House release, The Shock Doctrine. The clip was played […] Read more »
The state of Virginia is so far away from Silicon Valley, that we never almost ever think about it. It is also so far ahead in terms of trying to take control of its broadband destiny. Virginia’s Gov. Timothy M. Kaine wants all businesses in his […] Read more »
Blame iPhone and Stevenote for my Monday long loss of reality, which made me totally overlook Juniper’s (JNPR) announcement about their new router, T-1600, the very same one, that is supposed to compete with Cisco’s uber router, CRS-1. This was a router Juniper was developing in […] Read more »
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