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Press coverage from SxSWSA
Here’s a roundup of the articles I wrote upon our return to South Africa:
South Africans rock Texas — a detailed report-back on the trip, published in the May edition of Brainstorm magazine.
Crowdsourcing startup investments — A report for ITWeb on South Africa’s own contribution to SxSW.
Tapping the crowd for start-up funding — published on TechCentral.
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Live blog: Jeff Pulver #140conf @SxSW
Jeff Sass: hearing & listening
Social media is not an industry, just like word processing is not an industry. Social media is not a way to shout, it’s a way to listen. Transparency goes both ways. If someone thinks your product sucks, you’re going to hear about it, and more importantly, everyone else will hear about [...]
The state of now | Twitter in Tanzania | Love 2.0
Jeff Pulver: We’re getting to a state of hyper-connectivity. You’ve learnt more about people you don’t care about than about your family and friends. All of the audience active on Twitter as we speak.
It was three years ago, at SxSW, the community discovered Twitter. For a few days this year, something strange happened. Twitter became [...]
Austin rocks, and #sxswsa is loving it
South Africans out on the town for sight-seeing, food and music. Austin is a lively town, with great music and excellent food. And horses.
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Cool. Silicon Valley Insider quotes @sxswsa
I wasn’t the only one to aggregate funny tweets. And this list, on Silicon Valley Insider, includes one of mine.
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Mass walkout on @ev at #SxSW
Call it cognitive dissonance. Or dissociative absurdity. Umair Haque might have called it “interesting”. If there was one presentation, tweeted one disgruntled attendee, that needed a backchannel on-screen, this was it.
Half an hour before the “keynote interview” with Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter, the queue stretched the length of the Austin Convention Center. Along with [...]
Keep Austin weird
“Keep Austin weird” is the city’s slogan. Whatever they’re doing, it is working:
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Live blog: Africa 3.0 — the Cheetah Generation
TMS Ruge: Africa 3.0 – a look at the future of a connected Africa
Teddy Ruge, co-founder of Project Diaspora, whose mission it is to mobilise, engage and motivate Africa’s Diaspora to do more for the continent. The belief is that Africa’s development has to go through its own people. $40 billion in remittances, going to [...]
Justin Spratt on TV, porn, money and crowds
There’s a great roundup of some SxSW sessions by Justin Spratt, here: Fire Alarms, Billionaires, Porn, Crowdfunding and Public Speaking.
I also attended the Mark Cuban vs Avner Ronen battle about television, but found it mostly an uninspiring clash of egos. There was some clever wit here and there, but in my view neither Cuban nor [...]
Danah Boyd: Privacy is about control
“No matter how many times a straight white male tells you privacy is dead, it is not true,” said Danah Boyd, the keynote speaker for the official opening of SxSW. Boyd is a social media researcher who now works at Microsoft Research New England. She travels the US, speaking to children and parents about their [...]