It’s been said that the apps that break out at Austin’s South by Southwest festival are those that help festival-goers navigate and orient themselves within the sprawl of parties, panel sessions and gigs.
The 2007 edition of SXSW was Twitter’s big moment, the tipping point for the now iconic service. The following year, many thought that SCHED*, a web-based event calendar and agenda builder, would be the breakout service of 2008 — the “new Twitter.”
Though such expectations were inflated by the media, SCHED* provided useful personalized schedules that have endured through two editions of the festival. The latest edition of the app now includes mobile support, iPhone compatibility, and the ability to integrate with iCal and Google Calendar. Read the rest of this entry »
Laura reveals why screencasting app Jing (previously covered here on WWD) is her favorite. Strictly speaking, Jing is not a web app, but it’s a great choice if you’re looking for easy-to-use, inexpensive screencasting software.
While at SXSW, I had the opportunity to meet one of the web’s founding fathers, Håkon Wium Lie. He’s the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a CERN alum, along with Tim Berners-Lee. He’s also the CTO of Opera Software, and sang the praises of this underdog browser that, while often ignored, introduced some of the snazziest features in the browser world today. Lie and I discussed CSS3 and the upcoming Opera 10, currently in alpha, that will continue Opera’s tradition of innovation.
Web designers have long been using CSS to customize font size, style, family, backgrounds and layouts across a site. CSS3 brings a much more powerful feature set to those designers, including: Read the rest of this entry »
We spoke with the inventor of CSS, Håkon Wium Lie, at SXSW. Lie is a CERN alum, alongside the granddaddy of the web, Tim Berners-Lee. Lie is also the CTO of Opera Software, maker of the Opera browser, and works and resides in Oslo, Norway.
Lie is a fan of Google Docs (yes, another one!), and here’s how he uses it.
Wagner James Au, aka Hamlet Au in Second Life, is author of “The Making of Second Life”, a GigaOM contributor and founder of New World Notes. For three years, starting in 2000, Au was hired by Second Life creators Linden Labs as an “embedded journalist” to cover the world’s emerging society.
Amber is a blogger for her own blog The Amber Show and a podcaster with her own local show Hey Brooklyn, a weekly chat with the owner of a small creative businesses in the borough. She’s 26 years old, lives in Brooklyn, is married and has three dogs.
Got Flickr? Amber does and here’s how she uses it.
Nichelle Stephens calls herself a “multiblogger, bookkeeper, cupcake enthusiast, and social media strategist.” She blogs about personal finance for freelancers at Keeping Nickels and co-founded and co-produces the comedy blog Chicks and Giggles.
Chris Brogan is… a typist. Or so he says. The rest of us know him as a generous, prolific and strategic mind in the social mediasphere. Brogan is president of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency. He’s also responsible for the New Marketing Summit conferences and New Marketing Bootcamp educational events, and he’s the cofounder of the PodCamp conferences. Did I mention he blogs?
His favorite web app? BatchBook by BatchBlue. Haven’t heard of it yet? Take a listen. You need to know about it.
While at SXSW, I had the opportunity to meet one of the web’s founding fathers, Håkon Wium Lie. He’s the creator of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and a CERN alum, along with Tim Berners-Lee. He’s also the CTO of 
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