SXSW has come and gone and my phone might never recover. Y’see, last year i received over 500 Dodgeballs. To the best that i can tell, i received something like 3000 Tweets during the few days i was in Austin. My phone was constantly hitting its 100 message cap and i spent more time trying to delete messages than reading them. Still, i think that Twitter and Dodgeball are interesting and i want to take a moment to consider their strengths and weaknesses as applications.
While you can use Dodgeball for a variety of things, it’s primarily a way of announcing presence in a social venue where you’d be willing to interact with other people. Given that i’m a hermit, i primarily use Dodgeball to announce my presence at conference outtings and to sigh in jealousy as people romp around Los Angeles. Dodgeball is culturally linked to place. I’m still pretty peeved with Google over the lack of development of Dodgeball because i still think it would be a brilliant campus-based application where people actually do party-hop on every weekend and want to know if their friends are at the neighboring frat party instead of this one. When it comes to usage at SXSW, Dodgeball is great. I know when 7 of my friends are in one venue and 11 are in another; it helps me decide where to go.
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Every year South by Southwest, or SxSW, is a very unique and affordable confluence of some of the most influential minds on the web gathering in the state where I grew up, Texas. Read the more »
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On the last day of interactive at SXSW, I was looking forward to a panel called, “How to Easily Attract Your IDEAL Clients.” You see, I could use a few more clients for my consulting business and I thought I would learn some tips to help. Boy was I wrong 
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Musicians use festival for reunions, tour launches
Australia’s Hoodoo Gurus fit into two of the three lists in the spotlight at this year’s South by Southwest Music Festival: Reunited legends and international acts.
The third list is the one that never seems to change — independent bands looking to move another step up the ladder, whether it be through distribution, management or a label deal — at the 21st edition of the Austin, Texas, fest that starts Wednesday.
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On a private mailing list for publishers, Peter Brantley pointed to Booksquare’s open letter
to publishers, wondering why the heck they aren’t at SXSW in Austin? He quoted extensively from the open letter:
“South by Southwest, the interactive festival, is in full swing. […] Nay, many of the attendees at this year’s festival are already riding that wave that we call The Future.
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