Bar Camp Austin – A Quick Walk-thru
I just got back from SXSWi and Bar Camp. I will post pictures from there as well as interviews with Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Jason Hsiao of Animoto in the next few days. Before then I...
View ArticlePics from BarCamp Austin 4
As I mentioned in my last entry, yesterday I hit SXSWi. When the show floor closed, I moseyed over 311E 5th St. to experience the wild and wackiness that is BarCamp Austin. To accompany my video...
View ArticlePics from the show floor at SXSW
As I previously mentioned, on Saturday I headed down town to the Austin convention center and SXSW. Although I’ve lived here in Austin for 2 years this is the first time I’ve checked it out. I drove...
View ArticleTalking with Charlene Li about Social Networks
On Saturday at SXSW interactive I ran into my old friend and former business school classmate, Charlene Li. Charlene who used to be an analyst at Forrester, is the co-author of “Groundswell: Winning...
View ArticleAnimoto – The Poster Child for AWS & EC2
At SXSW interactive I came across the booth for the cloud-based app Animoto. I was intrigued since I have seen a couple of Amazon Web Services presentations and both held up Animoto as a great example...
View ArticleOpenStack Installer Demo at SXSW
Last week and this, Austin’s downtown has been taken over by the South by Southwest festival (SXSW). What started out nearly 25 years ago as a music festival/conference has grown to include parallel...
View ArticleRackspace evolves OpenStack Governance
One of the trickiest things to get right in an open source project is the governance model. Who makes up the various boards and gets what authority is something struggled over and something that...
View ArticleSXSW: Our first developer Chill and Chat
This is the 26th year of the SXSW (South by Southwest), the annual music, film, and interactive conference. Everybody whose anybody, and even a few who aren’t, are here. Yesterday the 10-day event...
View ArticleSXSW: Our Saturday night Dev/tech meet up
During SXSW Michael Cote and I, on behalf of Dell, organized a series of mini meet-ups focusing on developers, tech and social media folks. The second event we held was on Saturday on the top level of...
View ArticleSXSW: Our final Dev/Tech meet up
As I mentioned in my last several entries, during SXSW Michael Cote and I, on behalf of Dell, organized a series of mini meet-ups focusing on developers, tech and social media folks. These were...
View Article24 Hours of Pizza-fueled Innovation
Postponed: Over the weekend, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to postpone our first hackathon. Stay tuned for more details. Im very psyched to announce Dell’s first Hackathon...
View ArticleSXSW: Talking with AllDigital
Im currently downtown at SXSW after having had lunch with a customer, AllDigital. AllDigital delivers digital content from the cloud to multiple endpoints for corporations and entertainment...
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