South by Southwest brought Coloradans down to do business, to network, to throw parties, to talk about their book. Here’s a collection of photos of Coloradans, of SXSW’ers, and of the South by Southwest Interactive conference experience.
Jeremy Tanner, Marketing and Events Manager at MapQuest, tells attendees of MapQuest’s two-day “Colorado Ranch” party what the plan is for the afternoon. The party was one tack in MapQuest’s SXSW plan. Tanner limited the guest list at the Colorado Ranch party so to focus more on certain types of SXSWi attendees.
“Our goal in 2012 is to be a much better friend to startups, to developers,” Tanner said.
A ping pong tournament on the SXSWi Accelerator floor of the Austin Hilton.
A 3d printer, The Replicator, by MakerBot at the CNN Grill at SXSW.
What the 3d printer printed.
CNN’s Peter Hamby interviews Texas Governor Rick Perry, who had announced that morning that Apple was doubling its presence in Austin and adding 3,700 jobs. Perry talked on CNN’s Politics Unplugged show on a segment called “The Dark Arts of Online Politics.”
The quote of the night came from an interview earlier in the evening, with the CEO of a political pinterest-style site, Nathan Daschle: “The tricky thing about controlling the message is to look like you’re not controlling the message.”
The courtyard at Boulder’s TechStars party.
Inside of one of the two karaoke RVs in Austin — an RV hooked up with a karaoke operation. uTest sponsored this karaoke RV.
The other karaoke RV.
Darren Kitchen talks at the Securing Your Data in a Target-Rich Environment SXSW session.
Lee Nash and his Darth Vader pedicab.
Free food is a staple promotional gimmick at SXSW. This is the line for the free empanadas.
The crowd at the Austin Convention Center on Saturday, March 10.
The ScreenBurn Arcade is part of the SXSWi festival. Here is one of the elaborate booths set up there.
The Proxybot streamed what it saw live on the internet.
One of the four “Google Village” houses at SXSW.
Denver author Erika Napoletano at the signing for her new book, The Power of Unpopular.
Gawker publisher Nick Denton talks with blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash at a SXSW session about the failure of article comments.
The quote of the session:
Denton: “Have you ever had a conversation with someone who just agreed with you? It sounds like the most boring conversation on the planet.”
Dash: “Sounds like San Francisco.”
The “visual notes” from the article commenting session
Boulder entrepreneurs Andrew Walker, left, and Taylor McLemore, right, walk to a client meeting at the Hilton. The two co-founded Prediculous, an online prediction game, in October 2010. McLemore gave up work in the world of “corporate bullshit” to found Prediculous. The two decided six weeks ago that they would drive down to Austin for this, their first SXSW.
Walker and McLemore in the lobby of the Hilton, where they meet their client, Zack Shapiro (center left, looking away).
McLemore, Shapiro, Walker.
DJ Spooky with George Clinton at the CNN Grill.
Austin police setting up barricades for a night on 6th street.
Jennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, speaking at a SXSW keynote (listen to her keynote here). She spoke to the geeks in the audience, encouraging them to get involved and help build better online and internal systems for local governments.
Attendees on the smoking deck at the SXSWi awards show.
Pop singer Miike Snow played the SXSWi closing party.
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Joe Murphy is a newsroom web developer for The Denver Post. This is his second year covering SXSWi for the Post’s business desk. You can follow him on twitter at @denverpostjoe, and follow his collection of the interesting tweets that people are tweeting at @sxswtweet.
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