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Each year our pre-SXSW happy hour is an incredible event, packed with people buzzing about the upcoming interactive festival. Make sure to join your friends in the Austin technology community and come to Molotov from 5:30pm – 8:00pm on March 11th. The festival doesn’t begin till Friday, so this is not an official event and [...]

There’s a little piece of chaos at SXSW for everyone; and every year, some folks navigate the flood of people and sensory overload a bit better than others – the difference between a SXSW veteran and noobie is noticeable at first glance. In an effort to reduce apparent nerd-ism, I’ve put together some helpful tips and found some neat tools for first-timers at SXSW.

A few weeks ago, I participated in a panel at Semantic Web Austin that discussed open data initiatives and how the City of Austin might benefit from incorporating such a philosophy around its data. (If you want to know more about this idea, check out Juan Sequeda’s recent post on this blog.) It was an excellent discussion and I was fortunate to connect with some of the Austin tech scene’s most innovative minds.

One of the more interesting facets of the evening for me, however, was the make-up of the room. The new Texas Coworking space was packed – and not a fellow female in the bunch. The immediate effect was so striking that my first words upon arrival were a Tourettes-like exclamation of, “Holy crap, I’m the only woman here.”

It’s been said: “Imitation is the sincerest forms of flattery.” But, what if the imitation involves completely copying whole sections or the entire works of others? Or, what if the imitation turns out to be a complete fake, but nonetheless is passed off as the real thing?
On the eve of SXSW, these question about [...]

This morning we launched a redesign of AustinStartup.com incorporating a lot of the feedback we have received from the community since overhauling it last year. With SXSW 2010 just around the corner we felt it was the ideal time to push out the new design. Please let us know if you run into any bugs, [...]

Las Vegas is the mecca for any and all surveillance, and has aggregated some of the most interesting behavioral data around. Among the lessons that the data exposes are two decision fallacies that fund the city’s gambling earnings, and which startups need to keep constantly in mind.

The February 17th meeting of the Austin chapter of Texchange will be a milestone in two ways. First, we will have three incredible CEO’s who have all recently had major financial events in their company. Secondly, this will be the first Texchange “crowdsourced” event agenda. If you are a Texchange member please register for the [...]

Some of the top cities in the world have opened government data to better serve their citizens and cities. Not only should the City of Austin get on board, but they should lead in the movement towards Semantic Web standards.

With all the recent tablet talk, we check in with Austin’s own tablet trendsetters, Motion Computing

You may have seen them demo at Innotech at the Beta Summit, but today Spredfast is being launched to the world. It allows companies to manage, monitor, and measure their messages and voices across multiple social media channels. They are getting good coverage on the release today, with a story on GigaOM, and some coverage [...]