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How to Hoodwink Twitter (Hint: It's Easy)
How can you use Twitter to spread falsehoods? So easy! So many options! Here are three: Make up a story about the death of a celebrity. Any celebrity. Make up a story about Apple (AAPL). Any story....
View ArticleHave Start-Up, Will Travel: "Start-Up Bus" Yields Winners at SXSW
A start-up can be built anywhere–even at the back of a bus, near the bathroom. A group of 25 entrepreneurs took a bus last week from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, with a zany plan–to break up into...
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Foursquare's Next Move: A Big Funding Round
Start-up-of-the-moment Foursquare has lots of buzz, a rapidly growing user base and a triumphant tour of South by Southwest under its belt. Next task: Raising a pile of money. Sources tell me that the...
View ArticleFive Tech Investors Reflect on SXSW
Ever since Twitter Inc. broke on the scene at the annual South By Southwest festival three years ago, the techie crowds have multiplied at the Austin conference better known for its film and music....
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Facebook Won't Spend Much Bread on Hot Potato
Another “buy them instead of hiring them” deal: Facebook is about to pick up Hot Potato, a start-up that specializes in organizing chats about “real time” events. The transaction hasn’t closed yet, but...
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Viral Video: "Attack the Block" and BoomTown Debut at SXSW
Like many a geek–and after a decade away–I’m headed to South by Southwest later this week. To get in the mood for the well-known multimedia festival in Austin, here’s one of the films making its debut...
View ArticleMicrosoft Plans March 14 Launch for New Internet Explorer 9 Browser
Aiming to ride the hip coattails of South By Southwest, Microsoft said it will launch the IE 9 browser at the Austin event on Monday. Even those not cool enough to be in Austin, though, will be able to...
View ArticlePro Tip: How To Stop SXSW Twitter Overload In Its Tracks
There’s a lot of cool stuff happening in Austin at the South by Southwest conference this week, and All Things Digital will have three (3!) people on the ground to tell you about it. On the other hand,...
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Video: BoomTown Versus Texas Hipsters and Cheddar Cheese Cats at SXSW
As it turned out, BoomTown did not succumb to hipster poisoning on my sojourn this past weekend to Austin, Texas and the famous South by Southwest festival. The annual gathering, which has...
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Video: GroupMe Dudes Talk Group Messaging Phenom (and Drink Beer at the Same...
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...
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Viral Video: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (at SXSW)
Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight...
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Viral Video: Entering the "Source Code"
One of the movies that showed at South by Southwest was “Source Code,” an action thriller in which a solider is on a mission to find a train bomber by occupying his body. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, it...
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Pretty Flipboard Fundraising at an Even Prettier $200 Million Valuation
Flipboard, the high-profile and highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, is out raising another round of funding at an eye-popping $200 million valuation, according to numerous...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Confirms $50 Million Funding at $200 Million Valuation
Late last month, BoomTown posted about a huge venture funding effort by the high-profile and even more highly designed social media reading app for the Apple iPad, Flipboard. Today, its co-founder and...
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Pre-$200 Million Valuation: Flipboard's Mike McCue at SXSW (The Full Onstage...
In March, BoomTown travelled hipster-Texas-style for the South by Southwest festival in Austin. I was there to check out the geek-packed scene, but also to interview Flipboard’s Mike McCue in an...
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South by Southwest Parties On, Despite the Rain
As the people pushed to get in, the music thumped and the crowd gyrated at the Samsung Feed event, I tried to remember the time in high school when I actually wanted to go to something like this. These...
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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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 ArticleRdio Head of Design Wilson Miner Goes to Facebook
Wilson Miner, the lead designer at streaming music application Rdio, has left the company for a design position at Facebook, according to a message Miner posted from his Twitter account on Monday....
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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