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Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann's Lesson for Start-Ups: Go Your Own Way
Telling people how to create and run their own Internet start-up is a booming mini-industry. But here’s Pinterest co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann’s advice: “Don’t take too much advice.” “Most people...
View ArticleThe Homeless Defend Becoming Hotspots
An experiment with letting homeless people make money by serving as wireless Internet hotspots raised plenty of eyebrows at this year’s South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. After igniting a...
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AllThingsD Takes SXSW by Storm (in Pictures)
SXSW Interactive is, thankfully, almost over. We came, we saw, we ate from food trucks. We stood in lines in the rain (grudgingly wearing branded ponchos), we strained our eyes and ears for any slivers...
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Party On … And On … And On, Geek (But Not Much Else): A Newbie Reflects on SXSW
Never having been to South by Southwest, I really didn’t know what to expect after I landed in Austin. As I take off on a plane away from Austin, I have a few observations, many of which seemed to be...
View ArticleJon Stewart Solves the Homeless-Hotspot Debate
Turning homeless people into human hotspots at SXSW was a terrible idea. But one of the bizarre features of our media culture is that some people feel compelled to argue otherwise. Luckily, our media...
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Great App-pectations: When Innovation Leapfrogs Phone Capabilities
As comic Louis C.K. would say about technology: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy. Nowhere is that more true than in the world of smartphone applications, as app developers push the...
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First-Episode Clips From "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" -- Dave McClure Is...
Here are two clips from the first episode that Bravo has put up about its new and controversial-before-it’s-aired reality television show, “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” The cable program chronicles the...
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"Something Ventured" Set to Air in January: The Risky Dudes Who Wrote the...
“Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists” is a documentary that celebrates — pretty much without a lot of criticism — the very first venture capitalists who were behind...
View ArticleNapster, the Movie
Thank you, Techmeme, for pointing out that one of the films debuting at South by Southwest in a couple months is “Downloaded,” a documentary on Napster. Here’s the trailer: Based on that clip, at...
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SideCar Buys an Austin Competitor -- Let the SXSW Ride-Sharing Wars Commence
Both of San Francisco’s leading on-demand ride-sharing startups, Lyft and SideCar, are setting off to conquer cities across the country this year by signing up swarms of local drivers to run a sort of...
View ArticleAt SXSW It’s All About How You Arrive, Startups Hope
At South by Southwest it’s not just about mingling with hoodie-sporting digerati and beta testing their latest apps, it’s equally important how you arrive. At least that’s what startups like Silvercar,...
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Hangtime Launches Event-Finding App to "Map the Social Future"
Karl Jacob has founded and led six companies, including Dimension X (acquired by Microsoft) and Keen (acquired by AT&T). He’s a serial serial entrepreneur by now. At this point, there’s a pretty...
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Artificial Intelligence, Al Gore, Modern Blogging and More: Where to Find ATD...
Time again for app-flicking, party-hopping, BBQ-eating and, somewhere in between all that, panel-picking. The interactive portion of the SXSW festival — known as “South By” to hip conference goers —...
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This Year at SXSW, the Next Killer App … Maybe Isn’t
In recent years, the annual SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, has become a hive for new platforms, with early tech adopters buzzing about the latest and greatest apps, sending some of them...
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Ready, Set, Collaboratively Design a 3-D Printed Rocket
Crowdsourced space technology company DIYRockets, 3-D design collaboration platform Sunglass, and 3-D printing marketplace Shapeways are working together to get people excited about something that’s...
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Automattic's Matt Mullenweg on the Importance of Working Remotely
As we’ve seen unfold over the past two weeks, not everyone is into Marissa Mayer’s workplace ideas. That includes Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the company behind the giant blog-hosting...
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Ride-Sharing Service Lyft Gets Literal at SXSW, With Piggyback Rides
Uber, SideCar, Getaround and Lyft: These are just a few of the services you may have heard by now, all of them attempting to disrupt the transportation industry with car summoning through mobile apps...
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Still No Home for Firefox on iOS
Mozilla has no plans to resume development on Firefox for iOS, according to Jay Sullivan, vice president of product for the company. Speaking on a mobile browser wars panel moderated by CNET’s Seth...
View ArticleMission to Mars
I’ve said I want to die on Mars. Just not on impact. – Elon Musk, speaking at South by Southwest about his desire to travel to Mars
View ArticleShaq's Favorite Things at SXSW, and Why He Thinks Google Shoes Could Have...
Former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal was an early investor in Twitter, and has amassed more than 6.8 million followers on the service. Now, in collaboration with video-snippet-sharing site Tout, he’s...
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