SXSW Wrap-up
I believe I wrote significantly less about the panels at SXSW, but overall, I felt it was a much better conference than I expected. I possibly wrote less because I was much more busy enjoying the crowds and meeting the various people I ran into there. The panels played a much more background role to the vast amount of networking going on during the evenings. It seemed like Upcoming.org became the authoritative resource for all of the gatherings and parties going on during the conference, and I spent a great deal of time using it myself with my Blackberry 8700c, picking up addresses and what-not. It gave me a lot of ideas about how I’d best interface with a mobile experience when on the go.
We (Yahoo) threw the Flickr/Upcoming.org/Delicious party while we were there, and that was a blast. Thanks to everyone who attended. We finally got some schwag out there, and I’m still on the lookout for my first shirt sighting “in the wild.”
For someone like me who doesn’t really meet web people too often, the experience was really valuable. There was a lot of good feedback that I personally heard while at Etech and SXSW, and the amazing thing to me is that our small team was able to adapt certain things to work better live, while attending these conferences ourselves.
