Digital Media: Austin

I was initially going to write about eSessions in my post about Slacker in a discussion involving music centered digital media companies here in Austin. However, that post became too long and I decided that both companies deserved a full story. This company is of particular interest because a student who just graduated from the [...]

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I ran across this in my RSS feed from the Austinist, however they linked to some video on Brightcove instead of the actual panel picker. I am here to save the day. The site allows you to view and comment on all the different proposals for interactive panels during the festival. The panels can then [...]

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There are a few events coming up next week that I wanted to inform people of. The first one is the fall kickoff meeting for the Austin Social Media Club. The second is the inaugural meeting of the Austin Interactive Marketing Association. Both events are on Thursday August 23rd. Both events have been added to [...]

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Bazaarvoice released a press release touting 500 million product reviews served by their systems in July 2007 alone. What exactly does that mean? Well, according to the company’s website the company “develops outsourced technology, services, analytics, and expertise to encourage and harness word of mouth marketing and bring it closer to a company’s brand and [...]

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There are a few fairly new music centered sites out there that have roots or connections in Austin. Some have gotten more publicity than the others but they are all based on cool ideas. The first one that has already garnered some attention is Slacker. This company made a splash at SXSW earlier this March. [...]

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Saw this on CNN.Money. I wasn’t even aware of Small World Labs until I ran across this article. The company looks like they are positioned nicely for the Web 2.0/3.0 revolution. Basically they provide social networking software to businesses that wish to leverage the new medium within their organizations or to add [...]

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There was an interesting PR piece in the Austin Business Journal on August 10th regarding Olive Interactive Design and Marketing. The basic gist of the story stated that the company is now fully focused on interactive. The company is transitioning away from print because more and more of their clients are demanding purely web-centric solutions. [...]

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This post is to give a general breakdown of the digital media industries here in Austin. Now of course they all intertwine in some way or another otherwise there wouldn’t be that great buzzword we all like to use, “convergence”. However most companies have a core business that they are involved with and that is [...]

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So apparently I have succumbed to the blogosphere and decided to create my own blog. I don’t really think that I have enough to say to merit an actual page on the interweb but what the hell. This is somewhat of an experiment on my part to learn the innerworkings of this burgeoning [...]

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