You want to attend the SXSW interactive parties because they are the perfect place to grab a cold drink, eat some great food, network, see old friends and listen to some great music. Parties are hosted by some of the leading heavyweights in the tech industry, so you’re sure to make new friends and solid connections while enjoying endless free food and drink. Because there are so many parties, I have picked the top five must attend parties.
Hip-hop star Big Boi will hold a concert for 2,000 fans Monday, along with The Sounds and Locksley, at Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Texas, as part of South by Southwest, but tickets are only available via foursquare, which teamed up with Pepsi MAX on the event.
Interested fans must follow Big Boi on foursquare and check in at SXSW venues to increase their chances of unlocking the Golden Ticket badge. Those who earn the badge should go to the Pepsi MAX Lot at 3rd and San Jacinto between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday to claim their pair of tickets.
Last week at SXSW, John Pleasants, CEO of Playdom, spoke about “The Future Of Social Gaming”, but the greatest takeaway was the current economics of Facebook Games. If you are looking to get into the business or are already a player in the space, there were a number of important facts disclosed by Pleasants. What’s clear is that the business is a smaller version of the movie industry with the difference being that games can be improved as users interact with them.
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Are you at SXSW and have a Facebook profile that’s not up to par? Perhaps you think your profile gives off the right first impression but in reality, you are just turning people away! Whether or not you have a tight profile game, you should come get a free professional makeover today followed up by a discussion about optimizing your online persona.
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Days into SXSW it’s clear that location based services are fighting to take the lead spot as the thousands of Interactive festival attendees are all using the location products. Foursquare and Gowalla are competing for the top spot, but by now it’s clear that Foursquare has become the defacto service despite Gowalla’s strikingly good looks. Whrrl, a service that you probably can’t remember how to spell the first time around, has street teams trying to get users to install their app.
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If you are looking for a job in social games, you better be ready to be guided by metrics and not just your creative genius. That’s what Scott Jennings told a small groups of gaming enthusiasts and curious minds during a conversation led by him and James Au (of ohai) at SXSW 2010. It was in response posed to him by Social Times about what specific skills social game developers need that traditional game developers don’t have.
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This Friday marks the beginning of SXSW and with the lead up to the event there is significant buzz surrounding the two leading location based services: Gowalla and Foursquare. While many are questioning the value in sharing their location, most SXSW attendees used Twitter as a way to let people know where they were at past events. Instantly hundreds or thousands of people would descend on parties as they learned from popular users where the hot spot was. Will Gowalla and Foursquare reignite the flashmob revival at this year’s SXSW?
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DubMeNow, creator of a “mobile business card” app for various mobile platforms, recently announced a partnership with The Social Collective, resulting in the my.SXSW iPhone app for the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive conference.
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