Lena Dunham swivels in her leather mini-dress, drops her chin, then lifts her gaze to the lens. It's the South by Southwest festival’s first-ever la...
Bob McKinnon | Posted 05.25.2012
How does social change happen - with marches or clicks? To anyone who grew up in the 60's this seems like an absurd, if not offensive question. But t...
Mark R. Collins | Posted 05.21.2012
Free booze matters because then even people who don't enjoy live music congregate at Fader Fort every year. Inevitably the drunks will be drawn to the stage and exposed to some band or artist they never would have heard on the radio.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 03.19.2012
Another South by Southwest Interactive has come and gone. Attendance this year soared to nearly 25,000, a 227 percent increase from 2009, organizers s...
AP | CHRIS TALBOTT | Posted 03.18.2012
AUSTIN, Texas -- Stars of all stripes and celebrity hit town to close out South By Southwest, but it was a marching band that stole the show Saturday....
Matthew Knell | Posted 05.16.2012
Marketers were out in force again this year, competing in a noisier than ever atmosphere. But for me, the brands who "won" SXSW were the ones who cut through the noise by telling their brand stories in the most actionable way possible.
AP | CHRIS TALBOTT | Posted 05.16.2012
AUSTIN, Texas — Lil Wayne was feeling inspirational while making an appearance at South By Southwest. Snoop Dogg admitted he was too high to not...
David Wild | Posted 05.16.2012
Bruce Springsteen doesn't just talk a good game. Here, then, are some of my very favorite songs from the most beloved Boss in America, and perhaps the most authentic and admirable spokesman for our times.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 03.16.2012
AUSTIN, Texas -- Got an idea for a hot new Web app and need a software developer to build it? You may want to consider an alternative: Do it yourself....
Posted 03.16.2012
Wayne White is an artist who has likely made a huge impression on your life whether you know it or not. After being the cartoonist for The New York Ti...
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.16.2012
Ed Helms understands comedy. But the kind of improv that writer-directors Mark and Jay Duplass do made him a little nervous.
HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 03.16.2012
AUSTIN, Texas -- The past month has been one wild ride for Ben Forman and Geoff Larson, the creators of a weight-sensing electric skateboard called th...
Matthew Knell | Posted 05.14.2012
Social media companies have run into increasingly difficult challenges as they continue to grow to attempt to reach larger and more difficult to acquire audiences. As a result, much of the real news coming out of Austin was about new versions, growing pains and acquisitions.
Maria Foscarinis | Posted 05.14.2012
Using homeless people as mobile hotspots emphasizes the dehumanizing effects of homelessness itself. The reality is that homeless people are already treated as "part of the landscape" or, worse, as detritus to be swept away.
Steve Rosenbaum | Posted 05.13.2012
The idea of SXSW as a metaphor for the growth and overwhelming abundance of the web is more than apt. No matter how you cut it, the volume of panels, talks, conversations, parties, gatherings, bands, and food trucks is hard to manage.
Mark Horvath | Posted 05.13.2012
We've all been panhandled by a homeless person on street begging for money. I bet every one of you reading this has even been aggressively panhand...
MeiMei Fox | Posted 05.13.2012
"So much struggle comes from trying to be what we think other people want us to be. We'd all be happier if we followed our passions."
Posted 03.12.2012
By: Francie Diep, InnovationNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 03/10/2012 02:29 PM EST on InnovationNewsDaily AUSTIN - There were about fifteen m...
The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.12.2012
At this year's South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, WiFi-deprived attendees were confronted with an interesting fix to t...
Posted 03.12.2012
CNN is rumored to announce a major deal this week. Sunday night, Reuters' Felix Salmon reported from Austin's South by Southwest conference that C...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 03.11.2012
AUSTIN, Texas -- Photo-sharing app Instagram has nearly doubled its total number of registered users since December, Instagram founder Kevin Systrom a...
AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 05.11.2012
AUSTIN, Texas — After a series of emails and phone calls, Paul Davison is located in a busy hallway at the Austin Convention Center. Davison is...
The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 05.04.2012
Rick Perry joked that he would "work on some debate skills and always remember the third thing" if he ran for president in 2016. The Texas governor...
The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 03.10.2012
Since the Comedy team is in Austin, Texas celebrating the comedy overload that is South By Southwest (and playing a little game of our own by trying t...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bianca Bosker | Posted 03.12.2012
AUSTIN, Texas -- Google+ has been called a "ghost town," a "little version of Facebook" and "dead" since its launch last year. Users have continually...
New York Magazine | Posted 03.26.2012