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One week and counting… SXSWi updates
South by Southwest Interactive is one week away! Panic!
OK, don’t panic. Instead, find your calm center at the little soft spot in your core. Your core is above your belly. It’s a happy place.
If you’re sick of hearing about the festival, I’ll be posting a non-SXSW-related Linkdown later today. But for now, here are some updates of news and other bits we’re hearing in advance of Interactive’s start next Friday:
- Job hunting? Monster.com is partnering with the festival and Gowalla on a Hiring Hub that will be featured at the Trade Show. Monster says it’s diving whole hog into the festival; it’s also doing an interactive wall with “Augmented reality in Stereoscopic 3D,” holding a QR code scavenger hunt and sponsoring Tech Karaoke. And you thought they just helped you get a job to feed your family. More info here.
- Speaking of Gowalla, they’re partnering with social media news site Mashable for the fest, too.
- We’ll be doing a live chat here at 2 p.m. CST, Thursday, March 10 to prepare you for the fest, discuss our picks and tips for Interactive and to take your questions and discussion. Is the fest too big? Are you excited? Come tell us on Thursday.
- The 2011 Dewey Winburne Interactive Community awards have been moved up this year. They’re usually late in the fest, but this year, they’ll be held Friday night at the Driskill, honoring 10 people and one overall winner. More information here.
- Remember when we told you the festival was getting rid of the canvas swag bag and going digital. Well, it seems they spoke too soon. The magic power of Yoko Ono and designers Rob Jones and Molly Crabapple (who did the Interactive bag), and the reality of a festival book and pocket guide mean the canvas bag is still alive, reports our fashion writer Marques Harper, even if it’s got less paper clutter inside. I guess my poem was for nothing.
- Austin start-up Hurricane Party gets some love from Robert Scoble and from Read Write Web. Will it be the hot party-finding app for the fest?
- Here’s a list of panels happening at ScreenBurn, the video game-related track of the fest.
- FanTrail, another Austin company with an app, gets written up in the New York Times.
- Want to compete against IBM’s Watson? You can do that at the Technology Summit on March 16.
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