sxsw:breadcrumbs
So many interesting people, conversations, and ideas these past few days at SXSW. No way to make sense of it yet, but some links left behind:
- Justin Hall’s Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG), now available for testing. I’ve been playing with this since his presentation yesterday, and it’s probably one of the more influential ideas I’ll take away from the show. We’re talking and thinking a lot about play and rewards systems at Next New as well, and it was fun to catch up with Justin again, one of my favorite people I don’t really know very well.
- Best panel of the show: Building an Online Fanbase, mostly because of the smarts of filmmaker Lance Weiler and some of the other panelists. I’m hoping that Micki Krimmel writes more about it soon; she was taking prodigious notes, and we couldn’t help talking aloud at more than a few points about how good some of the ideas were.
- Mashery: the easy way to think of this is Feedburner for APIs - but for companies like ours, something like this could add a lot more value. Worth checking out.
- Pretty sure I annoyed the heck out of my twitter friends not at SXSW — we all must have. A friend whom I wish I could credit suggested that twitter add groups, and make the group you’re in temporal — that is, all twitters go only to your subgroup (say, your friends who are at sxsw) until a certain amount of time passes or you leave the group; meanwhile, we thought you could send twitters outside the group with a command (like “d all”).
- El Sol y La Luna had by far the best food I ate in Austin. Again.
- There are some really fine bloggers and journalists covering online shows and networks at this early phase, especially the very smart Liz Gannes, Jackson West and Alex Delyle. Seeing them embedded all over SXSW only confirmed this.
- When you find a decent $199 camera, buy an extra one. You never know when someone might need one.
- The three finalists in Robert Rodriguez’ Grindhouse trailer competition all turned in better entries than the Eli Roth trailer that Rodriguez showed at the end. The winner: Hobo with a Shotgun.
- For the record, the “Ze Frank party” Saturday night was sponsored by Buzzfeed. Check out the site and thank them.
- Most of my favorite moments were not Flickr’d — I almost never think to pull out the camera when I’m having fun. But when I remembered to, I snapped off a few. All collected here.
