Gizmodo's guide to iPhone OS 3.0's new features
— the biggest announcement of SXSW was in Cupertino #Trent Reznor on the state of ticket reselling and scalping
— Ticketmaster could easily prevent reselling, but they’re happy to take a cut #Clay Shirky on the death of newspapers and reinvention of journalism
— the single best essay on the topic I’ve read #Aardvark, social search over instant message
— pipes questions to friends-of-friends; works surprisingly well in my initial test #Foursquare launches with iPhone app
— the spiritual successor to Dodgeball, but with game-like elements #SXSW 2009 Twitter Visualizer
— five different visualizations, but the real-time map is particularly nice via blog.twitter.com #Washington Post's horrific article about infant deaths in hot cars
— Pulitzer-Prize winner journalist looks at a uniquely modern tragedy, when a slip of memory becomes fatal #Wired's untold story of the world's largest diamond heist
— after six years in prison, the mastermind told Joshua Davis his story for the first time #Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's Bryan Binkman Experiment
— 23,000 followers in 12 hours; pretty geeky for network TV, featuring Engadget on Monday and Diggnation last night #Techcrunch on Grand Central's relaunch as Google Voice
— they’re using speech-to-text to automatically transcribe voicemail #Revision3 exec liveblogs someone breaking into his house
— he broadcasted the ordeal on Ustream and Twitter via buzzfeed.com #Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs
— for some, prosthetics are no longer a disability; she can change her speed and height with augmentation #Michael Wesch on the Livescribe smartpen in education
— see the pen demo, and “pencasts” shared by the community #Bicycle Built for 2,000
— Aaron Koblin asks 2,088 Mechanical Turk workers to sing parts of “Daisy Bell” without hearing the whole song #Fortunebird, mechanical bird automaton that tweets your fortune
— also debuting at Etech: Lensley Automatic, the photobooth that Flickrs and tweets #Waxy.org at SXSW Interactive 2009
I’m making the pilgrimage to Austin for SXSW Interactive again this year, but no crazy Worst Website Ever antics this time. But I will be speaking at a couple events, if you want to get together:
Sunday, 3:30pm
What Do I Do With Myself, Now that the Economy Has Collapsed?
Lane Becker moderates a lineup of web geeks who started projects during the last bust, with some advice and lessons learned from our past success and failures. I’m very lucky to be on the lineup, along with the wonderful Ben Brown, Michael Sippey, and Jane Mount.
Monday, 7:30pm
Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Road
Every year, writer/comedian Heather Gold brings her live, interactive talk show to Austin to interview artists, musicians, coders, and writers around a theme. This year’s subject is “Something From Nothing,” a loose conversation about inspiration and the creative drive, with CD Baby founder Derek Sivers, Huffduffer creator Jeremy Keith, Adaptive Path founder/Emmett Labs CEO Janice Fraser, singer/songwriter Amber Rubarth, and me! The Heather Gold Show is a small part of the huge Plutopia EFF-Austin party, a three-stage art and music extravaganza featuring Bruce Sterling and Ian McLagan from The Faces, so should be fun. Free admission for SXSW badge holders, $10 for everyone else.
Naturally, I’ll be on Twitter and my picks for the show are on Upcoming and Sched.org. If you see me, say hi!
