Posts Tagged ‘austin’
SXSWi Tuesday
March 18, 2012
Tuesday I headed for The Right Tool for the Job: Native or Mobile Web? Developers from Facebook, Tumblr, Ember.js and Webkit discussed when it was appropriate to choose to develop apps in the native environment (they were primarily discussing apps for iOS), when web based apps are a better choice. There was also a discussion [...]
2012 | Blog | Tags: austin, conferences, sxsw, sxswi, technologyComments (0)
SXSWi Monday
March 17, 2012
The first panel I made it to was Designing Games for Documentary. This panel had members from academic programs (USC primarily), as well as artists, developers and designers. They demoed a range of games, covering topics such as cleaning up wall street, gender inequity, murder investigations, and platforms including board games, iOS and web based [...]
2012 | Blog | Tags: al gore, austin, conference, frog design, games, jaron lanier, sean parker, software, sxsw, sxswi, technologyComments (0)
SXSWi Sunday
Both of the panels Calvin was involved with were on Sunday morning. We headed out to the convention center early, finally having amazing luck with the shuttle- it was waiting when we got downstairs at 7:30. Not the usual hour wait. First panel: Publishing Models: Transforming the Book. Calvin was the organizer for this panel [...]
2012 | Blog | Tags: austin, calvin reid, comics, conferences, daniel burwen, graphic novel, ipad app, publishers weekly, publishing, sxsw, sxswi, technologyComments (0)
SXSWi Saturday
Saturday Grabbed a cab with very nice couple, including one of the panelists I saw the afternoon before, Charlie Wollborg. Shuttle nightmare continues, rainopocalypse also continues. Got to the convention center late, but made it to the end of browser debugging tools panel – The State of Browser Developer Tools. I missed most of the [...]
2012 | Blog | Tags: austin, baratunde thurston, conferences, curation, software, sxsw, sxswi, technology, top chefComments (0)
SXSWi Thursday and Friday
Thursday Got to Austin late, past midnight, and I still had to wait in long line for a taxi- our hotel is far, far away from the convention center, and far from the airport. jetBlue was fun, I enjoy channel surfing on the plane and eating blue potato chips. I believe I am the last [...]