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Friday March 12, 2010 12:36 pm
SxSW 2010: Austin is now the Thunderdome
The rumor at SXSW is that attendance for Interactive badges is up by 40% from last year, which is pretty amazing when you consider that the 2009 attendance was 10,741. So the amount of people decending on Austin, TX to see the next Twitter or Foursquare make an appearance is around 15,000. It’s crazy to think that Foursquare just debuted last year and now it is the most talked about product so far at this year’s event (granted, things are just getting started.) Speaking of Foursquare, we’ll be covering their SXSW news, as well as that of what we consider to be their main competitor, Gowalla, in the next few days.
It also looks like some of the big names we’ve seen in the past are back in 2010 to take part in the festivities. I saw that Pepsi, Microsoft and Aol were still building their booths this morning.
Braden Young is covering SxSW 2010 for Gear Live. You can follow him on Twitter at @bradeny. Hit him with a tweet if there are any events or sessions you’d like him to hit up and cover!
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Mind telling your readers what SXSW is? For all I know, from this article, it could be a real-life thunderdome battle between Mad max and Tina Turner. I guess that’s the price we pay for limiting our stories to a set number of characters.
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It’s called Google.com. Use it, and stop wasting other people’s time to have something explained to you that you could easily look up yourself. If you need instructions on how to use Google.com, then possibly you should just get off the internet.
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James,
SXSW is South by Southwest, and it is a three-in-one event/festival. There is a music festival, film festival, and “interactive” festival that all overlap. Tens of thousands of people attend. The Interactive festival is basically a technology/Internet/software/social media event. We will have much more from the event, so hopefully you’ll get a better understanding of it
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I am curious as to why you chose to use a picture of my camp at Burning Man for an article about SXSW.
We are not there, and have nothing to do with it.
Just picking out pictures at random?
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Technically, we have an ambassador. I’m here.
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True the picture is definitely from Burning man.
Come on Ginpy, let him use the picture.
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SXSW is the premier destination for discovery. The event is a launching pad for new creative content.By day, thousands of conference registrants network in the halls of the Austin Convention Center on their way to do business at the SXSW Trade Show.
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