Published by ericskiff March 16th, 2007
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Here’s some great takeaways from this weeks conference
Gem #1. Kathy Sierra Always Rocks |
Gem #2. Leveraging Your Short Attention-Span |
Gem #3. The 4-Hour Workweek |
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Analyze the 80/20 (Pareto’s rule) in your current life and work. Focus on the crucial few. Eliminate the rest — ruthlessly. |
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Check email only twice a day. Eliminate all superfluous daily distractions. When distractions interrupt you, 40% of the time we don’t return to the task at hand (I’d say 80%, for me). |
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Published by ericskiff March 15th, 2007
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Clipmarks sponsored the event, and you can see me in the vid a few times. It’s cool to see a whole day of your life in fast forward!
Published by ericskiff March 15th, 2007
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Stuart Montgomery attended SXSW for the first time this year, but he’s been blogging it like a pro. Check out his wrap-up of the event including direct links to his write-ups of some of the panels he found most memorable.
| Well, the conference is over now and I’ve actually gotten a good night’s sleep for the first time in 5 days. What a week. |
| Scaling Your Community was a presentation by Matt Mullenweg, creator of Wordpress, about how to foster a community in your sites. It was inspiring to hear that he, like myself, attended SXSW as his first ever tech conference and just a few years later was speaking there. |
| Tuesday must’ve been the day of typography because it started out with a great discussion of typography on the web |
| ended my SXSW week at the World Premiere of the highly-anticipated documentary Helvetica from director Gary Huswit. I’ve never been to a movie premiere before, and certainly not one about a font, so it was a truly memorable experience for me. |
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Published by ericskiff March 15th, 2007
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I love seeing the “day after” wrapups because they highlight the “sticky” thoughts from South-by; the stuff that really got in your brain and won’t let go. Here’s some sticky bits from one of Austin’s local style gurus Aston Brown.
My brain filled up about half way through but I’ll try to sum it up what was new and note worthy to me. |
Emerging Social and Tech Trends: |
| Showing your community your geographical location in the real world |
| Living Room Conferencing will be normal house hold thing |
Kathy Sierra – keynote speaker |
| Make our software fell more human |
| Use more conversational language. Use the word “You” when talking to your users in instructions. |
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Published by ericskiff March 15th, 2007
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Here’s an interesting take on where things are moving on the web. Content is once again king, and big companies are finally starting to get the web.
| Web 1.0 is the new Web 2.0. |
| Ficlets, for example, is a collaborative fiction site put together by Cyndi Li and her colleagues. It’s awesomely cool. But instead of being something Cyndi and her colleagues do at night, after their day job, Ficlets is their day job. |
| Not long ago, giants like AOL were buying startups like Brian Alvey and Jason Calacanis’s Weblogs Inc. network. That was smart. Now the giants are creating their own startups and networks. That’s also smart, |
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Published by ericskiff March 15th, 2007
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I hung out with Jose tuesday, and was upset that I missed his panel. Thankfully, nearly everything at SXSW is going to be available through the podcast, so I’ll be able to catch up over the next few days.
Published by ericskiff March 13th, 2007
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SiliconEra got an interview with an Opera employee and got to check out the upcoming browser for Nintendo’s newest portable gaming device. Check the source for the video!
| While hanging out at SXSW I caught up with the Opera team who are responsible for developing the Nintendo Wii browser and the upcoming DS browser. I pulled one of the programmers aside to give a little demonstration about how the DS browser works. |
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Published by ericskiff March 13th, 2007
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Ewan Spence has some though provoking insight on amazing rise of twitter and the effect that will have on blogging here at SXSW and other conferences.
| One of things I’ve always joked about is that at some point, there will be a conference where nobody takes any pictures, relying instead on the ‘herd immunity’ concpet that someone else will be Flickring anything interesting. |
| Given the mass adoption of Twitter at SXSW Interactive, I’m wondering if it won;t be a pictorial black hole, but a bloggable black hole. Most tech conferences have everyone blogging thoughts, feelings, news and other minuate throughout the day. I’ll wager that compared to other conferences, there’s been a 60%-70% drop in blog posts, but the thoughts haven’t been lost, they’ve all migrated over to Twitter. |
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