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Homeless Hotspots: Where We Go From Here

When we started planning for SXSW, we could not have anticipated that our idea for a four-day philanthropic project to update the street newspaper model would spark such a widespread debate.  The volume of the response to this program has reinforced our ...
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Dreams from the land of Geektopia
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How I went to Austin expecting to learn about browsers and came back wanting to change the world.
Author: Agathe Guerrier, Strategy Director, BBH & BBH Labs

I went to SXSW for the first time this year, with the firm intention to learn about UX, d...
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Dreams from the land of Geektopia
or
How I went to Austin expecting to learn about browsers and came back wanting to change the world.
Author: Agathe Guerrier, Strategy Director, BBH & BBH Labs

I went to SXSW for the first time this year, with the firm intention to learn about UX, d...
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BBH Labs: Profile, Details
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Bruce Springsteen's Inspiring Talk On Creativity and Music Is a Must Watch [Video]





Bruce Springsteen started this year's South by Southwest festival with a beautiful and inspiring—even tear-jerking at times—talk about creativity, music and hard work. No matter if you aren't ...
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Skynet vs Mad Max: Battle For The Future
Thanks to everyone who came to our talk at SXSWi last week. For anyone interested, you can find our slides and our speech below (we talk fast, so there’s plenty of it!) and please check out #sxbattle on Twitter to follow the commentary on the day. A...
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Bruce Springsteen Is Still The Boss, Even if He Did Lift Animals Riffs [Piracy]





During Bruce Springsteen's keynote SXSW speech last night, he disclosed that, like countless artists and musical acts before him, he routinely lifted riffs from his predecessor's songs. So does this mean h...
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NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg invites Austin to join in on NY’s rising tech scene
In an introduction to monday’s SXSW panel “Silicon Alley: Startup Ecosystem That Never Sleeps,” NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg touted New York’s emerging tech scene as the place to be. And while arguments for who will be “the next ...
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Jon Stewart Is Not Amused by SXSW Homeless Hotspots [Video]





The other day we covered the brouhaha over a New York ad firm converting the homeless into human wireless hotspots. Now it's time for The Daily Show's always delightful take! And no, John Stewart does not...
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The best new app at SXSW: Everything.me redefines mobile search
After two rainy days of location-based, social networking apps, the sun finally came out in Austin at SXSW. And as the clouds parted I stumbled upon Everything.me, a new HTML5, browser-based app that has literally and simply, reinvented mobile search.
In ...
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Does SXSW Still Matter? [SXSW]





There's a famous photo from SxSW taken 10 years ago, with just about every significant blogger at the time all gathered around one table. Many of them went on to form incredibly influential companies, like...
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Last.fm partners with Musicmetric to bring artist analytics into the mix
Last.fm has announced a partnership with data and analytics platform Musicmetric, an integration that will sit within Last.fm Music Manager, its interface for artists and labels.
Musicmetric is a London-based startup that offers tools to help those that w...
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Forget Cleantech -- It's Cleanweb at SXSW

Earlier this week, I slogged through the rain in a very dorkish GroupMe plastic poncho at SXSW in Austin to attend what I thought was one of the more interesting sessions, titled “Why Cleanweb Will Beat Cleantech.”
Perhaps because it was not ...
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SXSW News: Jerry Levin's StartUp Health Academy for Entrepreneurs Announces First Class

In an interesting twist on the accelerator and incubator model for entrepreneurs, StartUp Health Academy announced its first class of “healthcare transformers” today at SXSW in Austin.
StartUp Health, which is chaired by former Time Warner CE...
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Homeless Men Turned into Human Routers [Horror]





SXSW, the annual vanity carnival of schmoozing, marketing superficiality, and BBQ, has something new to offer Austin's visitors: unalloyed human degradation. A New York ad firm has converted homeless peopl...
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Instagram Finally Shows Off Its Android App [Instagram]





The breakout app from SXSW this year may be Highlight, or it may be Pinwheel. But the most exciting news? It's about Instagram, which is finally sort-of showing off a beta of its Android app. More ...
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Nokia to help make Austin greener with its #ijustplantedatree campaign at SXSW
With SXSW in full gear, the parties are rockin’, the booze is flowin’, and the BBQ is sloppin’. The yearly SXSW Interactive event in Austin is commonly referred to as “spring break for geeks” and it seems like this year is no...
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Chilean startup Hadza wants to crowdsource live event videos
Are you a Beastie Boys fan? If so, you will understand very quickly what the new Chilean platform Hadza does. The link between the two is an innovative concert video the band did in 2006. Called ‘Awesome; I… Shot That!‘, it was filmed by...
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Nike to make huge splash at SXSW by opening up its FuelBand API at Managers Hack
If you would have told me at the beginning of the week that the company who was making the biggest splashes in tech would be Nike, I would have told you that you’re nuts.
However, that’s exactly what has happened this week. Yesterday, Path an...
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Would Anyone Miss You: A Transmedia SXSW Experience
As our herd of black sheep makes its way to Austin from various BBH offices in anticipation of some great events, it’s the other experiences we’re discovering that are especially interesting. When we heard about a particular transmedia experie...
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Lanyrd leverages Twitter to show you which SXSWi panels you should attend
Thousands of people will be descending on Austin, Texas this weekend for the annual SXSW festival. With over 1,500 sessions taking place at SX Interactive this year, and nearly that same number in parties, deciding what to do and where to go can be really...
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That’s right, we’re not from Texas

Three days to go until the geek world descends on Austin for SXSW Interactive which if the ‘super grid‘ is anything to go by, will be more overwhelming than anything that has gone before. With marketeers, developers and Googler’s pourin...
0   Published 79 days ago in
BBH Labs: Profile, Details
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Homeless Hotspots: a charitable experiment at SXSWi
A charitable innovation experiment at SXSWi 2012
As always this time of year, we’re abuzz in anticipation of SXSW Interactive. Whether it’s talks we’re attending, or the talks we’re giving, SXSW is a consistent growth opportunity for the team. This year t...
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WillCall takes the hassle out of SXSW by letting you RSVP for 50 parties at once
Last minute ticket purchasing app WillCall wants to be your best friend heading into South by Southwest Interactive. Whether this is your first time attending the SXSW conference or your tenth, you know that figuring out which parties to go to is a pain i...
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Google is bringing a taste of the ‘plex to SXSW with its ‘Google Village’
South by Southwest Interactive has been called “summer camp for geeks” and apparently Google wanted in on the fun this year. For the first time, the company will set up shop with what it’s calling the “Google Village”.
The c...
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SXSW 2012: What BBH is Planning & Why We Hope We’re Worth A Vote
Photo by @saneel via @instagram, SxSW 2011
Although it seems insanely early every year, it’s time to start voting for panels at SxSW. Instead of spamming our professional and personal feeds with requests for support, we’re continuing a tradition we began ...
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BBH Labs: Profile, Details
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SXSW 2012: What BBH is Planning & Why We Hope We’re Worth A Vote
Photo by @saneel via @instagram, SxSW 2011
Although it seems insanely early every year, it’s time to start voting for panels at SxSW. Instead of spamming our professional and personal feeds with requests for support, we’re continuing a tradition we began ...
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This week at Microsoft: IE9 Mobile, Kinect, and broken updates
There is nothing like a weekly roundup to make you truly scared at how fast time moves. That in mind, today is the day that we take every week to look back and go over the biggest and best from the world of Microsoft.
For this week’s question, sound...
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New footage of IE9 Mobile in action
We did the deed of tracking down the man from Microsoft who was showing off Internet Explorer 9 Mobile in action at SXSW, and shot video of his demonstration.
What did he show us? Mostly what was covered at the Mobile World Congress, but it was refreshing...
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The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems at SXSW: panel presentation
Image courtesy of Made by Many
In Austin on Monday I was on a panel named in apt, Southwestern fashion “The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems”, hosted by Made by Many’s Anjali Ramachandran, with Conrad Lisco from RGA New York and P...
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The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems at SXSW: panel presentation
Image courtesy of Made by Many
In Austin on Monday I was on a panel named in apt, Southwestern fashion “The Last of the Launch and Leave ‘Ems”, hosted by Made by Many’s Anjali Ramachandran, with Conrad Lisco from RGA New York and P...
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SXSW – In the Company of Geeks


I’ll admit to being a little bit cynical (or ungracious, depending on how you want to look at it) at the prospect of SXSWi 2011. I’d been a couple of times before and, at my age, things are never as good as they used to be. But despite the p...
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The Economy of SXSW: Music, Film and Media [Infographic]
By now you must be familiar with SXSW, the annual conference combining music, film and interactive (media) in sunny Austin, Texas. The folks behind RetailMeNot, an Austin based startup that pushes a “coupon community” has created this infograp...
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Human-sized hamster wheel makes you work to charge your phone
Sure, you could plug your phone into a power socket to charge it, but where’s the fun in that? London-based agency 1000Heads has set up a giant hamster wheel at SXSW, allowing people to charge their gadgets while getting a bit of exercise at the sam...
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100 Years of Eye-Popping Title Sequence Evolution [Video]






If you've got even the slightest bit of cinephile in you, you need to watch this whirlwind tour of some of the most creative title sequences ever. Ian Albinson's "Art of the Title" debuted recently at SX...
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Movie Title Montage of the Day











Movie Title Montage of the Day: Watch film title design evolve before your eyes in Ian Albinson’s “A Brief History of Title Design” — compiled for the SXSW “Excellence in Title Design” competition screen...
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Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 9
Today at the SXSW event, Microsoft released its much awaited new browser, Internet Explorer 9. You can download the browser here.
Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) is a radical shift for Microsoft, with a new focus on standards compliance and performance, two thi...
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Video: GroupMe Dudes Talk Group Messaging Phenom (and Drink Beer at the Same Time)

If you had to pick the hotsy-totsy start-up to win the media darling of South by Southwest award for 2011–following in the precious footsteps of Foursquare and Twitter from years past–it would probably have to be GroupMe.
The group messaging/...
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The first 12 hours of SXSWi check-ins. Where were you? [Infographic]
Our friends at Checkin.to made us these awesome infographics to map out the first 12 hours of SXSWi check-ins. Using aggregated public checkins from Foursquare and Gowalla, they’ve built a beautiful visualization of activity from 6pm to 6am on Frida...
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Listen to 20 startups give elevator pitches to a top VC – in elevators.
Yesterday we revealed a great opportunity for startups at SXSW, a chance to pitch Albert Wenger of well known VC firm Union Square Ventures. These ‘elevator pitches’ will take place in actual elevators, with each startup having until they reac...
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CloudTalk, a group texting app with AOL era like chatrooms
CloudTalk is yet another group messenger app that’s gearing up for the SXSWi Conference in Austin, Texas. CloudTalk is both a platform for other apps and its own app. The company lets developers build apps with voice, texting and photo and video sha...
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Apple heads to SXSW, sets up temporary store in Austin
Apple is going to be at SXSW this year, opening a temporary store in downtown Austin, to provide consumer electronics to festival attendees but also to launch its new iPad 2 device when it goes on sale on March 11.
The Statesman reports that construction ...
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Apple Opening Pop-Up Store in Austin for SXSW Geekfest [Apple]


Our Brian Lam, and the thousands of other gadget-hounds attending the SXSW conference/music festival in Austin this week won't have to stretch their legs in pursuit of a brand new iPad 2—Apple's opening a temporary store in the Scarbr...
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New York City is winning in the SXSW StartupBus Game
Last year around this time, we wrote about the infamous StartupBus, founded by Elias Bizannes, an Australian now living in San Francisco, who proposed it on the Silicon Beach Google Group, a leading Australian tech entrepreneur forum which Bizannes also s...
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Two reporters, One trip to SXSW, Zero dollars. Can Square keep them alive?

It’s the biggest tech party of the year, and the entire industry is going. SXSWi is simply the place to be in March for tech. Twitter was launched there, Foursquare found its footing (and is coming back this year with an amazing spread) and brands ...
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Turn iPads Into Holler Grams [Apps]






Even if you can't think of your own cutting message to scribe and hold up to those around you, you can still get great enjoyment out of this free Holler Gram iPad app with its included messages. Get it no...
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Alex Blagg’s “The 9 Things You Need To Be South By South Best”
Alex Blagg, the infamous social media maven behind “A Bajillion Hits” will be IFC’s on-air host for SXSW’s Interactive portion this year. In a fun and entertaining video he’s just sent me, he lays out tips to survive the star...
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Keep Austin Weird
So in 10 days we’ll be relocating the BBH Labs experience to Austin, Tx for the annual geek jamboree that is the South by SouthWest Interactive festival. I last attended three years ago, when I was an earnest book publisher and before advertising fo...
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Keep Austin Weird
So in 10 days we’ll be relocating the BBH Labs experience to Austin, Tx for the annual geek jamboree that is the South by SouthWest Interactive festival. I last attended three years ago, when I was an earnest book publisher and before advertising fo...
0   Published 100+ days ago in
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Movie Trailer of the Day











Movie Trailer of the Day: “Sad, fat, black, latino, nerd. It doesn’t get any worse than that”: The SXSW trailer for Aaron Burns’s groundbreaking feature film debut, blacktino.
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blacktino is a dark teen com...
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Exclusive: Roomorama offers TNW Readers 25% off chic hotel alternatives [TNW Apps]

Need a room for the holidays but don’t feel like paying for a hotel’s holiday prices? Check out Roomorama, a service started by two avid travelers who really wanted to inspire young urbanites to ditch the concrete and get out into the world t...
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