Tag: SXSW2010

Fresh off the plane from the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, Peter Molyneux sat down, er, took a walk with Switched at South by Southwest in Austin to chat about the roles of emotion, morality, and a sense of touch in gaming. With news of 'Fable 3,' the latest installment of his adventure-based RPG series, Molyneux was brimming with thoughts on the PlayStation Move, social gaming, ...

The great twenty-something dream of starting a band, getting discovered, and selling millions of records before de-evolving at a ripe old age into rock-and-roll shame is still alive and well, especially if you take a look at the indie music scene. During SXSW this year, YouTube announced a new flavor of its existing Partner Program and is calling it Musicians Wanted. The project aims to tap into ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... According to online marketing firm Hitwise, Facebook has supplanted Google as the most visited site in the United States. While its seemingly infinite communicative tools continue to encroach on the popularity of Google and Gmail, the social networking behemoth can't claim complete U.S. dominance just yet, as Google still attracts ...

Here at SXSW, during an awkward, winding discussion between Twitter co-founder Evan Williams and Umair Haque of Havas Media Lab, the latest Twitter addition was announced. After hopping onstage, Evan kicked off the hour-long talk by immediately revealing and demoing @anywhere, a framework that aims to make Twitter and tweets more accessible across the Web. Firstly, hovercards -- which are ...

Congratulations to marketing mavens worldwide. You've gotten us talking. With iamamiwhoami getting international press, and with the viral nature of 'District 9' taking it from obscurity to an Academy nod, sneakily creative advertising methods are becoming the norm. So, at South By Southwest (SXSW), 'Repo Men,' director Miguel Sapochnik spoke about the necessary way films need to "extend their ...

Today in Austin at SXSW, MOG CEO David Hyman unveiled the music streaming company's new methods of bringing music to mobile devices. For $10 a month, MOG users will get unlimited streaming and downloadable songs (of which the company currently offers over 7 million) to their iPhones and Android phones. With Apple having recently purchased Lala, Rhapsody continuing to grow, and the much-heralded ...

Earlier this month, we saw the incredible Panic Status board, a real-time visualization of the Portland-based software company's activities and tasks. Running on a large high def screen mounted in the office, the Web-based board tracks the number of outstanding tech requests, creating a way for everyone at the company to quickly see what's happening. Panic found that the board, in effect, ...

Share Yesterday at SXSW's "Bigg Digg Shindigg" event at Stubb's BBQ, Digg announced that it had been working on a complete redesign of its popular social recommendation site. Digg CEO Jay Adelson told attendees that the project (involving more customizable and relevant home pages, faster site, and new user features) has been five years in the making. The next version of Digg promises a ...

If 2009, with 'Zombieland,' 'The Hangover' and 'Year One,' was the year of the popular awkward guy, then 2010 confirms our suspicions: geeky, comic-book reading, 'Star Trek' quoting nerds are officially cooler than Vince Vaughn's suave in 'Couples Retreat.' At the start of South By Southwest's film festival on Friday, the block-long line forming outside of the premier of Mark Millar's comic-book ...