My first SXSW, I spent 10 days in Austin, Texas armed with a video camera, a digital SLR and my mac! In my hand a platinum and photographer pass giving me access to almost all events and venues in town for the film, interactive and music festival.
Raincity Studios and Bryght hosted a party with our friends at Blue Flavor and Newsvines.
Bryght had a booth in the Convention Centre, where I spent the best part of my afternoon chatting with geeks and rockstars alike. Helping Colin and kk to promote Backstage and our services.
Ponzi stopped by one afternoon and did a podcasts with me and one with KK, you can listen to mine on the Chris Pirillo Show.
[Photo: Ponzi interview kk]
I took a total of 2217 pictures out of which I loaded more than 400 on my flickr account. I saw over 25 bands during the SXSW music fest including Mogway, Belle and Sebastian, The Peel, Same Day Service and every bands at Japan Nite. They rocked my world.
[Photo: Dakota Smith of the Peel]
I spent the better part of my late nights at the Red Bull House, thanks to Mark Brown of Buzznet.
[Photo: Ben, Will and kk playing Halo2 at the Red Bull House]
I danced my butt off and met loads of cool peeps, musicians and Ben Brown of Consumating.com
[Photo: Ben founder of Consumating.com]
SXSW turned out to be one of the best networking event I’ve attended in the past few years. In a week I met most all of my Internet heroes. The high-energy conversations, parties, bands, presentations and activities surrounding the event left me in a daze.
I’m looking forward to next year, where we hope to bring more team members and have a larger presence. You can expect to see us in the trade show and you can look forward to another great party.