Tag: sxsw

  • SXSW: DIY Now More Than Ever

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    These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well Mike Hudack, Co-Founder, blip.tv Lynda Keeler, Founder, Delight Network Matt Mullenweg, WordPress Gina Trapani, Editor, Lifehacker.com Ted Rheingold, Top Dog, Dogster Inc About making something happen with very limited resources. Dogster: 10,000 members in 3 months. Two years on, eight-person company. Started…

  • SXSW: What’s Hot in Web Applications

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Moderator: Peter Merholz, Dir of Practice Dev, Adaptive Path Scott Dietzen, Pres & CTO, Zimbra Seth Sternberg, Co-Founder, Meebo BJ Fogg, Founder & Chairman, YackPack Product strategy, design, and development. What it takes to build a web app. What it takes…

  • SXSW Reflections

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    While I still have notes from about 10 other SXSW panels I attended, I’ve decided to give it a rest for the moment, and post some of my own thoughts. The past two weeks have been a whirlwind. Somehow I failed to create an entry about getting into Carnegie Mellon University’s Interaction Design program. (Fuck…

  • SXSW: Keynote Conversation: Heather Armstrong / Jason Kottke

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Jason Kottke, kottke.org Heather Armstrong Author, Blurbodoocery, dooce.com Jason: I don??????t like advertising. Didn??????t want that on his site. Heather: I didn??????t want to do a subscription model. Didn??????t want my readers to make unreasonable demands. Jason: I had 1500 bosses.…

  • SXSW: How to Create Passionate Users

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    Note: These are my notes from this panel, and are not edited very well. Moderator: Kathy Sierra People with a passion make the object/subject of their passion more meaningful than it is for the rest of us. People are irrational. Passionate people, not rational. Reverse engineering passion. No one is passionate about something they suck…