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A SXSW summary/journey from Simon van Wyk

on March 19, 2012 by Mark Comments

Guest poster Simon van Wyk (founder of HotHouse).

I’ve always wanted to go to South by South West (SxSW) and finally got an opportunity to attend, courtesy of an application my agency, Hothouse, developed for Tablets. As many industry people know, SxSW started life as a music festival but for many years has also included streams for the film and interactive industries. This year’s Interactive Festival attracted around 27,000 people. And since the festival is held in Austin, a town who’s motto is “let’s get weird”, there is plenty to talk about. Read more…

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Control ProxyBot at SXSW

on March 9, 2012 by Tim Comments

Here is something that doesn’t happen every day. For 3 hours we get to steer BBDO’s Proximity ProxyBot at South By South West (SXSW). He’s a bot equipped with the right tech gear to let you experience SXSW by proxy. Please help us with suggestions on how we should tweet-steer him through the conference and beyond. Read more…

File under: BBDO Proximity, SXSW

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