Archive for the ‘sxsw’ Category

Posted on April 28, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Podcast: TheSocialGeeks Episode 35 – Tungle, Delicious, Yobongo and Fring

Click here to listen to the entire podcast: TheSocialGeeks: TheSocialGeeks Episode 35 – Tungle, Delicious, Yobongo, Fring.

Posted on April 13, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

Podcast: TheSocialGeeks Episode 33 – #SXSW analysis live

The crew sits live at SXSW in the Austin Convention Center to give coverage, commentary and feedback of:

• breakout apps of SXSW
• group texting applications
• what apps will survive and why
• the state of SXSW
• why we use specific apps
• and always more..

Join Chris Miller, Paul Steel (LivingLifeBB), Sarah Perez (ReadWriteWeb), Louis Gray, Josh Catone (Mashable) and myself  in this ~30 minute roundtable.

You can see our links right here on Diigo with the show linkroll below.
TheSocialGeeks

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Podcast link ->  TheSocialGeeks: TheSocialGeeks Episode 33 – #SXSW analysis live.

Posted on March 21, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

What’s new with TriOut and the Robert Scoble SXSW video interview with a sneak peak at TriOut v3

Originally posted on TriOut’s blog
How time flies in the location space. Just one year ago, Lawrence Ingram and myself held a TriOut launch party at the Research Triangle Park HQ and launched TriOutNC.com. At the launch party we announced our first hyper local check in deals contest. Since then a lot has changed. TriOut has added a sales manager Gregg Morris and anther iPhone developer, Josh Johnson.

Over the past year, team TriOut had an amazing opportunity to participate at various location based conference such as geom with some of the other location-based services like foursquare, gowalla and scvanger and at blogworld 2010 we launch version two of our iPhone app. With version two of our app we decided to open up TriOut for anyone to use in the world but still remain a hyper local focus. We also launched an API and a HTML5 version of TriOut.

In the first year of TriOut we have learned a lot and watch as the entire location space has evolved and continues to grow. One opportunity that opened to us was to make TriOut a white label platform in which we could build geo based mobile apps using the TriOut api for businesses, brands, universities and more. This led us to a conversation with NC State University to build a location-based social network for the school called “OnCampus”. We’ll have more news about OnCampus and how other schools can have their own location-based social network soon.

During SXSW 2011, I caught up with Robert Scoble for an update on TriOut and showed him a demo of OnCampus along with a sneak peak at TriOut version three iPhone app in the works. Take a look.

Thanks for the support, especially the local Triangle, NC community. We’re excited about the future of TriOut!

Posted on March 11, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

SXSW – Holler! The next great mobile meetup app?

@allnick, entrepreneur and founder ofAllFacebook.com. Nick is working on a new mobile app that’s going to make it easy for you to plan meetups with friends. Sounds cool right? Just wait until the app launches. Nick showed me a few screenshots of the app and I was very impressed with the look and feel and the workflow along with the thought process he has put into the app.

The app is called Holler and you can sign-up to be notified when it’s ready for launch at http://holler.com/ and/or follow Holler on Twitter at @holler

Posted on March 9, 2011 - by Wayne Sutton

SXSW – Addieu makes it easy to connect on all social networks with people you meet

Yes, I’m already in Austin, TX for SXSW interactive 2011 and extremely excited about conference this year while feeling a bit overwhelmed at the same time. Prior to SXSW I’ve been thinking about my blog/content strategy and/or how I plan to cover the event. This is my third year attending SXSW and the first two years I did a lot of podcasting, interviewing, live streaming and live blogging sessions but for 2011 I think I”m going to have a simpler approach and write about various people and startups I meet during the conference.

As for day one, I ran into an old friend Damien Basile @DB on twitter who just launched his new startup with Brian Papa, called Addieu.

Addieu is an all-in-one solution to help you avoid business card overdose. It does this by allowing you to exchange contact information and connect you & the person you’re meeting on all your social networks at once, quickly, easily & reliably.

Some notable features:
+ Easily connect on Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare
+ Automatically adds new people to your Contacts app
+ Uses your Foursquare checkins and shouts to remember where you’ve met somebody.
+ Seamlessly add people to Twitter lists, including creating new ones on the fly.
+ No username and password.
+ Your address book entry is your login.
+ Browse your connection history.
+ Email and text a contact right from Addieu.
+ Unable to connect to the Internet? Addieu works over Bluetooth!

After hearing the Addieu pitch from DB I downloaded the app and now my SXSW plan is to use Addieu to exchange contact information. If you have an iPhone you can download Addieu here [iTunes] link.

If you’re at SXSW and would like for me to cover your startup, feel free to text or message me at 919-816-2230 so we can schedule a meeting time.

If you’re using or just downloaded Addieu let me know about your experience in the comments.