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@ SxSW: Interview: Lance Tokuda, CEO, RockYou; Social Apps To Consolidate; A ‘Tax’ On Developers? - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 14 Mar 2008 02:00 PM PST

RockYou, along with rival Slide, is one of the big in the red-hot social net apps space. Huge on Facebook, the San Mateo-based company is getting set to plant a…

@ SxSW: Closing Thoughts: Well, That Was Fun - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Wed 12 Mar 2008 02:13 PM PST

It was. And now it’s over. Everyone else flew home yesterday or today, having experienced a whopping 8 square blocks of Austin. Sure, I’ll take 8 blocks of Austin over…

@ SxSW: A Rowdy Discussion On Ad-Supported Music - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 11 Mar 2008 04:56 PM PST

Of course a panel on online music business models was going to degenerate into a food fight. The only surprise was that about 45 minutes into it, all of the…

@ SxSW: Michael Eisner; ‘The Time Is Right’; Internet Content To Equal TV In 5 Years - 3 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 11 Mar 2008 09:14 AM PST

Michael Eisner may not be the same hot ticket at SxSW as he would be elsewhere, but the conference organizers made the curious decision to put an interview of him…

@ SxSW: Keynote: Mark Zuckerberg: More To Facebook Than Valuation, Microsoft - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 09 Mar 2008 01:25 PM PST

(Update: The video of the session is here online, on Austin-American’s website.) Take a wild guess why that’s a picture of a screen broadcasting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, rather than…

@ SxSW: Interview: Google’s Kevin Marks: Open Social: Coming Soon To A Social Net Near You - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sun 09 Mar 2008 11:09 AM PST

When Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched its Open Social initiative last November with an impressive roster of industry partners, pundits hardly took a breath before writing Facebook’s obit. That was premature.…

@ SxSW: Bryan Caplan: Questioning The Wisdom Of Crowds - 4 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sat 08 Mar 2008 04:27 PM PST

We see tons of startups predicated on the so-called “wisdom of crowds”, an idea that’s been so thoroughly internalized by people, the actual premise, that crowds are wise, are rarely…

@ SxSW Interactive: Early Thoughts; It’s Like SxSW Music… But For Startups - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Sat 08 Mar 2008 08:26 AM PST

It dawned on me pretty soon after looking at the schedule for this year’s SxSW Interactive conference that that it would be a mistake to try staying rested. So it…