Mar
2011
It’s been two weeks since the end of SXSWi 2011 – just enough time to catch up on sleep, work off those breakfast tacos, and cull massive amounts of raw information into an organized record of our time in Austin. For Hashable, that means the following things:
(1) The Hashable Infographic: a breakdown of how Hashers hashed across five days of hashing;
(2) The Photos – Candid: Hashable’s collected photorecord of what went down at SXSW, and who did it wearing easily-identifiable gray t-shirts;
(3) The Photos – Formal: The Hashable Oasis Collection™, featuring serious, sober portraits of startup luminaries taking themselves very seriously;
(4) The Blog Post: Epic experiences demand epic blog posts which go through it all in minute, nostalgic detail;
(5) The Leaderboard: Final standings of the SXSW Hashable Leaderboard 2011.
We had a fantastic time at SXSW and we owed it all to our incredible team of staffers on the ground and back home at Hashable HQ; our amazing Hashable Evangelists and Hashable Fellows; our great friends, colleagues and partners in the New York startup scene; our stalwarts in other cities, confirming that this really is a community; and you our beloved Hashers – the best userbase an early-stage startup could ask for. We are so grateful to all of you for an unforgettable experience. You rock.
So – without further ado – this is our Mega-Report!
We hope you like it.
Mar
2011
In addition to being the official nerd spring break, SXSW is also the defacto annual snapshot that captures our collective identity as a tech subculture. What’s in, what’s out, what’s cool, what’s lame, and where are we all going next.
Every year is marked by its own winners, losers, icongraphy, and memes. One thing that popped out at us as we were combing through the SXSW Hashable data was how much your Hashing captured both the spirit and the details of the conference. The data truly emerged as an awesome snapshot of the shared experience. From what we could tell, SXSW 2011 was kitschy, it was cool – and it was totally bananas.
So with that, we present to you our first annual Hashable SXSW Infographic – it’s everything we learned about you (and therefore ourselves) as you Hashed it up out there. Thanks for being so awesome everybody, and for keeping Austin weird!
Mar
2011
SXSW is a conference – and so much more. It’s a festival, an event series, a maze of incredible people speaking on fascinating panels; a party juggernaut; a giant meeting place for swarms of ‘professionals’; a launch pad for new products, new faces, and new ways to combine your branding with delicious tacos; the locus for sponsored runs, impassioned meetups, impromptu pool parties, pre-parties, post-parties, VIP parties, BBQ parties – and very few pity parties, because everyone is having too much fun and learning too much and has too many awesome events to attend.
Thrown together in one giant be-badged mass thronging inside the convention center and outside in the Austin sunshine, each of us has the opportunity to connect with colleagues, mentors, friends and partners – many of whom we are meeting for the first time. Ask anyone who’s been to SXSW what kind of connections they made, and inevitably you’ll hear a story of a random run-in of two people from different cities who bonded over Iron Works or Iron Cactus, the Hilton pool at 3 p.m. or the Hilton Lobby at 3 a.m., being enthralled by Bruce Sterling or, um, somewhere on Sixth Street hurling. The point is, SXSW is a teeming, swarming petri dish for new relationships.
That, of course, is where Hashable comes in. Hashable is all about connecting – there for that first #justmet through all the subsequent #coffees, #meetings, #drinks, #ranintos and #majorhangs that track a connection from passing to permanent. So, with that in mind, we descended on SXSW with our hardy hometeam of full-time Hashers and killer farm team of Hashable Evangelists to totally hash you up.
And wear matching t-shirts.
Mayhem and awesomeness resulted – thanks to an amazing userbase, an energetic team and an outstanding group of friends, partners and supporters from our NYC homebase (East Coast represent!)! All of which we have tried to capture in our Official Hashable SXSW Infographic and in the following photographic smorgasborg.
Some housekeeping: A few of you got rewarded for that, and we ain’t talkin’ Hashcred. We promised to bestow upon our 3 top users each an iPad 2, because shiny toys are fun, and people like prizes. And since there was a sort of tie – we ended up awarding 4! Congratulations to Joyce Sullivan, Jeff Hoffer, Obie Fernandez and Ryan Matzner! We like you.
More importantly, we had A BLAST – and happily traded sleeping for rocking some incredible panels, hash-ups, demos, low-key hangs and hard-core ragers. And – here is the photo evidence.
Some caveats – sometimes we were too busy Hashing to document accordingly. Blame yourselves for being so damn interesting. Also, since SXSW is such an unwieldy beast, and because we loved every event equally, we determined that the most democratic way to highlight the awesomeness of everything was to take a cue from our muse Rebecca Black and go by the days of the week. For us, SXSW began on Thursday – which, as everyone now knows, is the day before Friday – followed by Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday until one by one we regretfully boarded our planes, cars and Startup Buses back to the real world, left with fond memories, great friends and random bruises we couldn’t quite account for. Partying, partying YEAH!
If you want to see everything in one big gulp, go here. Otherwise, please enjoy this highly curated look at SXSW 2011. Yes, we love you back. Okay, go:
THURSDAY
TEAM HASHABLE descends on Austin, repping from the getgo on the NYC #NerdBird along with pals from Foursquare, the NYT, the Barbarian Group, Lucky, and the conveniently-named Mashable. Uber-Hasher Joyce M. Sullivan is also on board, the recipient of the first officially-bestowed Hashable sticker, unless someone else gave one out earlier.
Bright-eyed and hashy-tailed, our A-Team reported for duty and fajitas at the Iron Cactus, loading up with margaritas, guacamole and a fetching assortment of Hashable t-shirts. We can’t even begin to describe the love and appreciation we feel for our Hashvangelists, who fanned out across the city of Austin and truly rocked it. They are: Jacob Brody, Vanessa Chester, Seth Elliott, Katie Felton, Jeremy Fisher, Joseph Haslam, Whitney Johnson, Kellee Khalil, Jesse Middleton, Natalia Oberti Nogura, Trevor Owens, Reece Pacheco, Yan Tsirklin, Alexis Tryon and Ricky Yean, with an assist from Hashable Fellows Zeb Dropkin, Kathryn Minshew and Sam Rosen. Go team!!
As CEO Mike Yavonditte hashed everyone up, CMO Emily Hickey pounded a few #beers, VP Biz Dev (and organizational genius) Jane Kim distributed t-shirts, Director of Engineering Todd Coleman hovered over his laptop between bites fixing bugs and UX Jedi Oz Lubling lounged insouciantly against a railing, the Hashvangelists cavorted amongst themselves, beginning those lifetime bonds that are often helped along by several rounds of drinks. Aw. As far as we know, none of them made out. With each other. And that is all we are going to say about THAT, Joseph Haslam!!
We were all so innocent then. Little did we know what was in store. If you want to see more about THURSDAY, go here.
FRIDAY
Up and at ‘em, Hashers! We were badged up and ready to go, some of us fresh from the Hashable Taco Truck™ on Brazos street. Oh yes, we took care of you.
We took our Hashing seriously….
…after all, Hashliness is next to Godliness:
The first day was for getting our bearings – getting the lay of the land at the Convention Center, rocking some panels, checking in at the Foursquare/Pepsi Max lot, figuring out where we were sleeping later. The first night wrought a cavalcade of parties strewn across town, from Stubbs to Momo’s to Ignite at the Austin Music Hall – but as any hardy SXSWer knows, all roads eventually lead to the Driskill. Team Hash was there, lookin’ tough.
You don’t want to meet VP Product Teddy Jawde and Director of Products Dave Sebag in a dark alley, you know what I’m sayin’? Okay – if you’d like to take a deeper dive into FRIDAY, see here. Gotta have my bowl! On to…
SATURDAY
This was a big day – in addition to crossing the bridge for panels, celebrating fabulous women at Digitini, presiding over a Sausagefest…panel, indulging in some branded Grilled Cheese from our friends at the GroupMe Grill…
…we had our Main Event: THE HASHABLE OASIS PARTY. Meant to be an intimate affair for chilling and chatting, 200 of Hashable’s best friends and closest colleagues came out to enjoy some great conversation (and power networking) with our Table Hosts like Andy Weissman, Jason Calacanis, Mark Suster and Naveen Selvadurai. Was it fun? Decide for yourself:
….maybe just a little. By the end of the night, we were clean out of t-shirts (wow, you loved those sexy little gray numbers!) and hashed to the max. Just kidding. YOU CAN NEVER BE HASHED TO THE MAX! But seriously, it was a stupendous night, and a great excuse to make all our friends come to us. We felt very lucky! And hungry. We repaired to the Iron Cactus afterward for a nibble, and there may or may not have been tequila shots.
Full photoset from the Hashable Oasis Party here.
SUNDAY
OMG it’s two days after Friday!!! We’re not sure how she did it but CMO Emily Hickey dragged her tequila-soaked body out of bed and out to the Hilton for her 11 am panel, “The Five Startups You Meet In The Deadpool,” along with Charlie O’Donnell, Ben Lerer and Christine Herron. They were knowledgeable and helpful and the full-house audience was pleased. A really cute guy named Anson asked a question. Oh come on now, you noticed, too.
Sorry, no photo of Anson. Afterwards there were many things to be done – have lunch at the CNN Grill (you’d like award-winning free food in a state-of-the-art restaurant wired out the wazoo? Great, see you there), Get Sauced at the Ashton Pool for Conduit’s fabulous pool party, which evolved (or devolved) into a frothing, teeming mass of bodies in the hot tub; the incredible NYC startup-meetup at The Parish wherein 20 homegrown NYC startups demo’d like rockstars (hat tip to co-organizer Jane Kim); see Michael Cera play rock star at the Barbarian Group party at the Mohawk; get your hair teased back into the 80s at the Google/ACLU party at Maggie Mae’s, and wonder how you came to be at a Google/ACLU party; rock your butt off at the Power Plant at the Vimeo party; shake it over to The Phoenix for the Gary V pop-up party, just because; maybe chill with Ashton Kutcher at the Hangar. We didn’t see him but if we did we would totally have made the Zoltan sign. He would have thought it was sweet! Dude! People love to be reminded of their roots.
Check out more from SUNDAY here.
MONDAY
If you managed to survive Sunday, then congratulations – because Monday was the home stretch. Not only was it Pi day (3/14), for some of us (your hardy narrotor, Rachel Sklar – hello!) that meant helming a panel followed by a don’t-mind-if-I-say-so-myself AWESOME all-lady comedy show, sponsored by Funny or Die, UCB, Reboot, The Barbarian Group and, yes, Hashable, and held at the delicious and free-beer serving CNN Grill (oh yes, sugar, Mama hooks you up). Everyone surely loved their Hashable stickers on the table! I know, don’t call you Shirley. It was a beautiful, sunny day, and the action at the GroupMe Grill and the Foursquare Court was hoppin’; Gary V was keynotin’; and on the 8th floor of the Hilton, pale startup skin was beginning to turn the faintest shade of pink. Just another manic Monday…or, should I say, major Monday – as in, THE MAJOR RAGER. If you weren’t at Hashable’s awesome Cedar Courtyard bash, thrown in conjunction with our friends at GroupMe, Daily Booth and Spin, then you missed some serious good times, especially since Team Hash let loose on the dance floor. And I’m not sure if you’ve seen Jane Kim dance, but woman’s got some MOVES. We were sad to miss the Big Boi concert, but our own big boy Mike Yavonditte kept us entertained by doing a 20-minute interpretive dance to “I Wanna Hash You Up” as the crowd screamed and young girls wept. Okay that didn’t happen. But it’s all sort of fuzzy. There were more tequila shots.
You get the picture. Go here to see more shots from the Major Rager – and please to enjoy this collection of shots from MONDAY right here.
Sometime in the wee hours, maybe 3 a.m., the crowd in the Hilton Lobby swelled to at least a hundred, probably more, and the 7th Annual Hilton Lobby Backstroke Competition was off. Team Hashable represented. Not to brag but we sort of killed it – our innovation of flinging off our flip-flops and rocking it barefoot led to an entire rematch, mostly because reigning champion Danny Newman was sore that I beat him. Just kidding Danny! Congrats on winning the second time, when I didn’t actually compete! And sorry ’bout your broken pinky. #HashFriendsForeva!
TUESDAY
Tuesday dawned. Technically, SXSW was still going, but most of the Interactive crowd had started the journey back. The crowds of iPhone-wielding startup types were slowly being replaced with tattooed and pierced music types, as the SXSW changeover began it inexorable march. Some of us stayed behind, grateful for a few days of unhurried Austin sunshine and free-flowing CNN Grill fare. But even the stragglers eventually had to leave Austin, tired and hungover and almost certainly about to come down with payback from an immune system abused. As we bid farewell, we looked back at that memorable few days and those amazing people we met – and looked down at our smartphones, because guess what? Hashable had them all stored, neatly geotagged and indexed and searchable for our convenience, so that we might hold tight to those new friendships fostered in Austin’s fair glow, and never let them go.
We got you covered, friend – it’s the least we can do. You showed us a damn fine SXSW. Thanks for the memories, thanks for the connections and thanks for the hashing – we’ll see you next year!
#fondly,
Hashable
Full slideshow:
Mar
2011
To complete our SXSW 2011 round-up, we’re giving away THREE iPad 2s (so new we haven’t even bought them yet) – and slinging around some major Hash-love – cuz you guys & gals ROCK!
1. The iPad Winners
Back in our days of innocence, before this whole SXSW thing, we promised that three Hashers would win iPad 2s based on who earned the most Hashcred at SXSW overall, who met the most new people, and who was met by the most people. The contest excluded our official Hash-Evangelists. Three monsters emerged – and we congratulate you:
JOYCE SULLIVAN - you earned the most Hashcred overall – you are a force of nature, we salute you!
JEFF HOFFER – you made the most #justmets (actually, Joyce did, but she doesn’t need 2 iPads right?!) – congrats!
OBIE FERNANDEZ – you received the most #justmets – and you racked up a lot of points in your own right – nice job!
RYAN MATZNER – you earned second most Hashcred overall, and Joyce won two categories – and we couldn’t decide which category runner-up to make the winner, so you are also a winner! (yes this is confusing, just take your iPad thanks)
We will be in touch with you four tout de suite about your winnings.
2. Contest Runners-Up
We’d also like to give some major love and shout-outs to some other varsity Hash-letes who were runners-up in the contest categories – including:
Ryan Matzner / James Laughlin / Scott Carleton
Nihal Mehta / Cheryl Yeoh / Francisco Hui
Jason Gegere / Jeff Klein / Lea Marino
Evan Bartlett / David Fano / Steven Liu
And additional shout-outs to:
ALL of our Hash-Evangelists – and especially Yan and Josepf, who ruled them all!
and… THE TOWN OF BOULDER (Schlachter, Angilly, the rest of the crew – you know who you are!)
3. The Final SXSW Leaderboard
And for posterity’s sake – here’s the final top 100 Hashers of SXSW – congrats to all of you – and thanks for rocking it!!
1 Yan Tsirklin
2 Josepf Haslam
3 Jeremy Fisher
4 Rachel Sklar
5 Justin Wohlstadter
6 Brandie McCallum
7 Kathryn Minshew
8 Jacob Brody
9 Ricky Yean
10 Joyce Sullivan
11 Ryan Matzner
12 Katie Felten
13 Scott Carleton
14 James Laughlin
15 Kellee Khalil
16 nihal mehta
17 Trevor Owens
18 John Frankel
19 Cheryl Yeoh
20 Seth Elliott
21 reece pacheco
22 Jesse Middleton
23 Obie Fernandez
24 Zeb Dropkin
25 Fiona Schlachter
26 natalia Oberti Noguera
27 Shahar Nechmad
28 Sam Rosen
29 Vanessa Chester
30 Lea Marino
31 Whitney Johnson
32 Joanna Belbey
33 Jeff Hoffer
34 Charles Smith
35 Eric VanderSchaaf
36 Alexis Tryon
37 Charlie O’Donnell
38 Matt Shampine
39 Vic Singh
40 Aniq Rahman
41 jeff klein
42 Joallore alon
43 Bryan Beshore
44 Anne Saulovich
45 Natan Edelsburg
46 Jackie Coughlan
47 Francisco Hui
48 Tara Hunt
49 Ben Wolff
50 Ryan Angilly
51 Murat K. Berme
52 Jason Gegere
53 Daniel Recanati
54 Ari Greenberg
55 Emma Persky
56 Joe Yevoli
57 Tyler Koontz
58 Stephen Klenert
59 Dave Kerpen
60 Florent Peyre
61 Nathan Hurst
62 Cassel Kroll
63 Laurie Davis
64 Marla Schulman
65 Greg Neufeld
66 David Lifson
67 Bryan Dinkelacker
68 Vivek Sodera
69 Sanford Dickert
70 Pablo Reyna
71 Vivek Sharma
72 Nick Frost
73 Kim Smith
74 Gary Vaynerchuk
75 Shai Goldman
76 Orian Marx
77 Calvin Lee
78 Vanessa Hurst
79 Jorge Martinez
80 Alexander Taub
81 Chris Carella
82 Steven Liu
83 Sarah Cooley
84 Jesse Hertzberg
85 Tarah Feinberg
86 Kyle Wild
87 Walter Schwabe
88 Tom Limongello
89 Brett Petersel
90 Jason Kapler
91 Alex Neth
92 Anne-Marie Vignola
93 Suzan Bond
94 Ryne DeBoer
95 Jeff Willinger
96 Ben Essen
97 Eddy Badrina
98 Jeff Gothelf
99 Miten Sampat
100 Jessica Kirkwood
Mar
2011
SO here we are in the Hilton lobby, first official day of SXSW, things are definitely starting to rumble!
To get your networking engines going – we’re throwing down some incentives:
1. WIN A ‘GOLDEN TICKET’ TO THE HASHABLE ‘VIP PARTY’
We’re hosting a truly awesome Oasis tomorrow night (saturday 6-8) to bring investors and founders together at a small, semi-civilized, and totally kickin party. This party is booked and there’s only one way to get in at this point – and that is to HASH IT UP – starting now.
We’re looking out for 5 Hash-stars who are going for it at SXSW- meetings tons of new peeps all over the place. Keep an eye on the Hashable SXSW leaderboard to see how you’re stacking up. Oh and don’t worry if you’re not at the top – all our official Hash-vengelists are on their too and you’re not competing with them. If you’re somewhere on this leaderboard before 5pm Saturday – you are in the running my friend! http://hashable.com/#!/leaderboard/SXSW2011
2. WIN AN IPAD2 via THE HASHABLE SXSW LEADERBOARD
As mentioned above, we’ve created a dedicated leaderboard for everyone who is Hashing it up at SXSW. Even if you don’t get going in time to win a VIP Party ticket – that’s ok, you could still be in the running for an iPad 2, not to mention Hash-fame! We will be giving away 3 iPads to the top Hashers in 3 categories:
- The person who earns the most Hashcred overall at SXSW Interactive
- The person who meets the most people at SXSWi (using the ‘Send Business Card’ aka ‘JustMet’ function)
- The person who is met by the most people at SXSWi (checked in with the most/sent the most business cards)
Hopefully some friendly competition will get us all going and make the whole ‘introduce yourself to strangers’ thing easier and way more fun. Cuz jeez, that’s why we’re here!
Ping us with any questions at @hashable – otherwise we’ll be in touch with some Golden Ticket handouts tomorrow afternoon!
Mar
2011
Hi Folks!
Working to the bell here – we’ve got two ‘final’ app releases live today – please update your iPhones and Androids!
The new versions will help you share who you’re meeting with your friends, co-founders, and teammates at SXSW – and see who they’re meeting – in real-time. Hashable was already an awesome way to track the people you personally meet – now it’s on steroids and ready for full team networking!
Here’s a quick video explaining everything, with some text explanations below. And please refer to http://hashable.com/sxsw for everything else SXSW-related!
1. PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
Assuming you’ve set up your Inner Circle, you’ll now get pop-up messages informing you when somebody has logged a Hashable activity with you; an Inner Circle friend meets with someone; people you introduced have connected; someone from your Hashable address book has joined Hashable; you receive an Inner Circle request; your Inner Circle request to someone else has been accepted.
You can dive into any push notification and send that person a message through Twitter (like, ‘introduce me to that person pls!’ or ‘Dave is awesome tell him I said wassup!’).
*You can turn push notifications on or off per person in your Inner Circle – Go to the ‘Profile’ tab and choose the gear wheel on the upper left to adjust notifications per person.
You can turn pushes off entirely through your phone settings.
2. BETTER GEO-TAGGING
The last revs introduced Foursquare check-ins so that you can now check into both a place AND a person at the same time. This version now lets you tag a meeting with a neighborhood as an alternative to a specific venue. So let’s say I want to specifically track all my Alphabet City meetings because let’s face it those are the most important ones – voila!
3. PROFILE IMPROVEMENTS
You will now see a dedicated ‘Profile’ tab – click this to configure the exact information you want to include every time you send a business card (including your phone number if you want!).
4. OFFLINE QUEUING
OK no changes here – but just a reminder that if you’re stuck in a signal-less venue at SXSW (or anywhere for that matter) – you can still post connections through your app. We’ll stage them and push them through when we can get a signal.
We hope you like the final revs – and that they help you Hash things up as a team. They are feeling pretty smoking to us!
See you in Austin!
Team Hashable
Mar
2011
This is it – SXSW kicks off this week – are you ready? We are! Team Hashable is amped for the circus and we’re ready to rock it. We know you are too – so here’s what we’ve got lined up to make it happen:
Stay In The Loop
Follow @Hashable_SXSW and @NYxSW on Twitter for tips, updates and other info throughout the week. And, of course, download Hashable if you haven’t already. Obvs.
Stay In Touch
Find us at SXSW at one of our Daily #HashUps
March 11 – 15 @ 2 PM – Location TBD
Get your daily dose of #powerHashing at our Daily Hashups – we’ll flashmob somewhere fun and connect with other cool people who use Hashable. Great meeting point if you lose your pals, or just come solo and see who you might #runinto. Yes, there will be #beers.
Stay Well-Fed
#TACO trucks
Friday, March 11, 12 – 1:30 pm
Brazos between 2nd and 3rd – look for the truck!
You’re in Austin – how could you NOT have a taco?? Hashable insists that you have at least five. Bring your friends or make friends over a taco and if you haven’t already – post your first #taco connection!
Stay Gold, Ponyboy
Hashable VIP event -
Saturday, March 12, 6 – 8 pm
Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos Street, Austin, TX
RSVP – TBD
Meet the people who move and shake the SXSWinteractive world at this VIP connect-o-fest. No loud music; no crowds; this is a bottle-serviced Oasis where business will get done! Meet (and hash) with our table hosts Robert Scoble (Rackspace), Gary Vaynerchuk (VaynerMedia), Dave McClure (500 Startups), Mark Suster (GRP Partners), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Adam Dell (Dell Ventures), Andy Weissman (BetaWorks), Naveen Selvadurai (Foursquare), and Paige Craig (BetterWorks) among others.
While it’s an invite-only event – intended primarily to bring together Founders and investors – and space is incredibly tight – we want to accommodate as many of our awesome Hashable users as possible. One sure way to get invited is to absolutely rock your Hashable check-ins when you land in Austin. We’ll be giving away 5 Golden Tickets based on the first couple days of SXSW Hashable activity! Warm up your apps and stay tuned!
Hashable Demos
Hashable presenting at NYC StartupMeetup
Sunday, March 13, 11 am – 6 pm (Hashable Demo is at 2:30 pm)
The Parish
214 East 6th Street, Austin, TX
RSVP – http://nycstartupmeetup.eventbrite.com/
Hashable was born out of NYC, and we want people to know it! Come see our demo at the NYC Startup Meetup on Sunday, and meet other NYC tech scene folks building exciting products. We’ll be there all day, stop by.
Hashable presenting at Team Android Choice Awards
Sunday, March 13, 7.30 pm
Lustre
97 Rainey Street, Austin, TX
RSVP – http://androidsxsw.eventbrite.com/
Hashable Panels
The Five Start-Ups You Meet in the Deadpool
Featuring Emily Hickey, Charlie O’Donnell (First Round Capital), Ben Lerer (Thrillist), Christine Herron (Intel Capital)
Sunday, March 13, 11am
Hilton, Salon AB
500 East 4th Street
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP5609
Influencers Will Inherit the Earth – Quick, Market Them!
Featuring Mike Yavonditte, Joe Fernandez (Klout), Anthony Ha (Venture Beat), DJ Patil, Sloane Berrent
Sunday, March 13, 12.30pm
Austin Convention Center, Ballroom F
500 East Cesar Chavez Street
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP7892
The Female Funny: Is It Different For Girls?
Featuring Rachel Sklar, Irin Carmon (Jezebel), comedian Jamie Denbo (Showtime’s Ronna & Beverly, Natalie Portman’s Best Buds), and Stuart Blumberg (Oscar-nominated screenwriter for The Kids Are All Right, also Keeping The Faith, The Girl Next Door).
Monday, March 14, 12:30 p.m.
Austin Convention Center
Room 16AB
500 E Cesar Chavez St
Twitter as a Development Platform: How to Successfully Embrace a Tweet-Based Business Model
Twitter provides their developers with a robust API and a real-time data stream that can’t be matched. Many entrepreneurs have used these building blocks to create innovative apps and services that have become businesses unto themselves. In this informal panel conversation representatives from several Twitter-centric companies will discuss how they’ve created, expanded, and maintained a large market footprint while staying complimentary to the goals and aspirations of the “mother ship.”
Friday, March 11 2:50pm to 3:30pm
ND
501 Studios – 501 I-35
Austin, TX, 78702
Stay Well-Fed, Part Two
#BreakfastTaco trucks
Monday, March 14, 8:30 – 11 am
Brazos between 2nd and 3rd – look for the truck!
Who needs sleep?? Roll from your last party to our truck for a hangover cure of eggs and cheese wrapped in a taco* Or start your day of panel hopping with a filling and nutritious pocket of Texas goodness. And check in with the people who are either ending their night/starting their day.
(*The FDA has not formally approved Breakfast Tacos as a cure for hangover symptoms. Please eat breakfast tacos in moderation as this may cause the sudden onset of a Texas twang or a strong desire to wear cowboy boots. Oh, heck, y’all, eat as many as you like.)
Stay Out All Night
Major Rager w/ Hashable, GroupMe, DailyBooth and SPIN
Mon, March 14, 8 PM – 2 AM
Cedar Street Courtyard
208 West 4th Street, Austin TX
RSVP – http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1376538263
This is it!! After three days of Hashing it up – you’re going to want to Hash it down with a beer. Truly awesome music (SPIN’s co-hosting, so you know it’s gonna be good), and great times with great partners GroupMe & DailyBooth. Power through, this will be the party you don’t want to miss. You can sleep on the plane.
And, of course, Team Hash will be representing across panels, parties and events – check out the NYxSW page to see who’s doing what where.
We’ll see you in AUSTIN, yo!! Get excited.
Mar
2011
Did you know you can track your Hashable meetings, add a location, and post to foursquare at the same time? In case you missed it, it’s easy!
First, select the location-tag icon.
You can then choose a location and check in with Foursquare.
The blue foursquare icon confirms that you’ve checked in. Now, tap ‘Post Connection’…
Your Hashable check-in now includes who, what, and where!
Mar
2011
Hey Boulderites! We promised we’d be back and we will be – TONIGHT! We hope you can join us for a #BDNT pre-game where we’ll enjoy a few light beverages, some snacks and the joy of once again being together after being kept apart by the cruel mountain winter. (Speaking of that cruel mountain winter…please say it’s warmer than it was a month ago. Please. Please. Please.)
Here’s the deal: We loved your town, we loved your people, and we are strangely fascinated by alpacas – so we found an excuse to come back. (The St. Julien’s not so bad, either.) We held a contest – who could reign supreme on the Hashable leaderboard – and swore we would return to your mountainous lair to declare the winner, just in time for SXSW. So – we know you work, hard, but all work and no hash makes Boulder a sad city that missed out on a super-fun happy hour. To that end, see below:
WHAT: Hashable Pre-BDNT #HashyHour & Leaderboard Celebration!
WHEN: 4:30 – 6:30pm
WHERE: Trada HQ, 1023 Walnut Street, Boulder CO
WHY: Because we booked our plane tickets before we realized it was BDNT, but also, because it will be fun and awesome and hashy and really, you’re going to question free drinks?
WHO: You, your friends, your friend’s friends, people you should be friends with but you haven’t met them yet and later on you’ll thank us, and of course, Team Hashable
And that’s it! We figure we’ll enjoy Trada’s fabulous hospitality (thanks Team Trada!), nosh for a bit and then head over to #BDNT to see who’s doing what, hashing all the way. Then we’ll go out again, and maybe finish the night with a slice of Pizza Colore. Mmm. That was really good pizza.
So, please RSVP here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1339094267
…and we’ll see you tonight!!
Fondly,
Team Hashable
p.s. Check out where you stand on the Boulder-Denver Hashable Leaderboard – it’s not too late for an upset! http://hashable.com/#!/leaderboard/Boulder-Denver