After experiencing my first SXSW I can only say one thing: wow. Just wow. If you’re in the tech industry then SXSW is certainly the conference of the year. Not only do you have the opportunity to bump into various tech leaders all in one evening but everyone attending is […]
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This is a cross post from the uTest blog. Last week, I mentioned that Matt Johnston and I were heading to the SXSW conference in Austin, TX. Well, we’re finally back in Massachusetts and almost caught up on sleep. The trip was a lot of fun and I think we accomplished […]
Admittedly, I’ve never been to SXSW before. 2011 is going to be my first year in attendance but it seems eerily familiar to something I’ve done before. I have a very, very helpful network of awesomeness /friends (blatant link-love jamming) to weed out the crap. If I had to judge by […]
This will be my first year heading to SXSW and I have little clue of what to expect. I’m fortunate in that I have a few friends who are veterans of the sport and willing to let me tag along. Even with that network it’s certainly an intimidating event – […]
After watching Clay Shirkley’s TED Talk presentation last week I had to watch my all time favorite TED Talk; Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth. This was the first TED Talk that really captured my interest. Photosynth has the ability to identify the content within a picture and overlap it […]
I passed on the Google Dance this year but was curious to see pictures in near-real time (from less than an hour ago). Google and the other search engines can’t pull the data in that quickly but Twitter is able to using search.Twitter.com (aka Summize). A quick search for “Google […]
This is my third SES conference and to be honest, Search Engine Strategies 2008 San Jose just isn’t cutting it. I was pretty impressed with last year, but this year… Meh. To begin with, there is certainly a larger amount of sponsored sessions. The focus has shifted towards agencies, rather […]