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Lee Munroe Blogging from SXSW
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Lee Munro is doing a great job keeping his blog up to date at SXSW.
Oh and he has a Posterous site here…
He’s up to Day 3 of coverage now from the SXSWi exhibition floor and seems to be hitting some of the best parties (including the Mashable Party). I’m not jealous at all.
Honest.
NIatSXSW Team Blog from Austin
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Your humble NIatSXSW Editor is home-based here in Belfast while 11 Northern Ireland companies are doing great things in Austin, Texas at SXSWi.
Jonathan Cusick has been blogging on progress and you can read his update here.
Filmtrip: new show pilot delivered
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Filmtrip – one of the Northern Ireland participating companies at SXSW Interactive - has just delivered the pilot episode of their new cross-platform puppet comedy & music show. Check out a short taster online here.
Stay in touch with the Filmtrip activities: view their blog here (you can also sign up to the company mailing list from there).
Also, check out the brand new Filmtrip website, in the nick of time for SXSW. Check it out www.filmtrip.tv
Content, New Technologies and the Consumer Experience – UKTI
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SXSW, one of the world’s leading trade festivals for music and interactive content, this year welcomes the largest delegation from Great Britain and Northern Ireland ever to attend the event.
As part of SXSW, UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) will host a specially curated half-day event, showcasing UK creative excellence.
The event – ‘Content, New Technologies and the Consumer Experience’ – will take place at the Hilton Garden Inn, 500 North IH 35, Austin, Texas, on Tuesday 16 March 2010, 10.30am – 6pm and will include a networking lunch. It will be a centrepiece of the UK presence at SXSW, providing the perfect platform for UK companies looking to build their network of US partners, clients, customers and contacts.
Focusing on business opportunities around new technologies, digital and mobile, the event will include panel discussions with key industry representatives, as well as networking and speed networking sessions between specially invited US and UK companies.
Ted Cohen’s TAG Strategic, the leading Digital Media consulting agency, has been specially commissioned to organise the event on behalf of UKTI. The agency has enlisted senior executives from brands, music services, rights owners and artist management to engage with delegates in a series of panels, networking breaks and keynote addresses.
UK Trade & Investment is the government organisation that helps UK-based companies succeed in the global economy and assists overseas companies to bring their high quality investment to the UK.
Venue
Hilton Garden Inn, 500 North IH 35, Austin, Texas
Date and time
Tuesday 16 March 2010, 10.30am – 6pm
Attendance is free but places are strictly limited and must be pre-booked. To book your place (one person per company maximum) please contact ukti@tagstrategic.com stating your name, job title, company and a short business biography.
For more information
contact Faron Mckenzie at TAG Strategic on +44 (0)7932 069967
AudioBoo: NoMoreArt and the Cocoon CMS
Posted by: | CommentsBy Jeffrey Peel
I took the chance to ask Marty Neil the other day about what he’s up to at SXSW wearing his AirPOS and NoMoreArt hats.
In this AudioBoo Marty talks about Cocoon – the new CMS from NoMoreArt. Marty reckons that despite the growing market presence of Wordpress, and other content management systems, there is still a place for more modest and easy to use platforms.
Rock Out from Design Zoo
Posted by: | CommentsOne of the Northern Ireland companies making the trip to SXSW has prepared this demo of one of their iPhone application developments. For those of you used to air guitar you can take a step a little closer to the real thing with your iPhone in hand.
Check out The Design Zoo and watch the vid…
Belfast Rocks and Belfast Unplugged
Posted by: | CommentsThe Creative Industries team at Belfast City Council are organising two great music parties and networking events at SXSW.
Partying and networking is the way to do business at SXSW – so if you’re going to Austin for SXSW this month, and would like to attend, please RSVP as per the invites.
Just click on the thumbnails to get the full picture.
Explore Belfast in Music on Your iPhone
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Chris Martin talks about the Belfast Music iPhone App in his AudiBoo here on this site.
But you might want to experience the App for yourself. Here’s a bit more from www.FilmTrip.tv:
THE BELFAST MUSIC IPHONE APP
As part of their ongoing commitment to lifting the international profile of music in the city, Belfast City Council in partnership with Filmtrip, OhYeah & NITB have created this iPhone application to accompany the new Belfast Music website, and the music bus tour.
Imagine there was a way to discover the rich musical heritage of a world-renowned city, through a mixture of historical anecdotes and street level music info, accessible anywhere, anytime. It exists and it’s called the Belfast Music iphone app.
The Belfast Music iPhone app showcases past legends and contemporary inspirations that have shaped the music landscape of our city. Check out where Belfast legends grew up and cut their musical teeth, and check out the many venues that show off the present wealth of musical talent.
There is an explosion of new music coming out of Northern Ireland, building on the global success of past & present artists in many genres, and with some of the best audiences in the world, Belfast can be sure that it’s legendary status lives in many musical memories.
Thanks to the Design Zoo & Hothouse Music, for all of their hard work, and thanks to the music lovers, makers & shakers of Belfast for their assistance in getting it to here.
So get off to that apps store now, type in ‘Belfast Music‘ and go exploring.
SXNI Ning Network
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Andy McMillan from GoodOnPaper has created a Ning Network for the Northern Ireland contingent of companies that will be making the trip to Austin – or for other companies that might be staying at home but might want to get some of the SXSW vibe.
I’m going to pop an RSS feed over on the side-bar so you can keep up to speed with the discussion forum on Andy’s site.
Northern Ireland at SXSW
Posted by: | CommentsA total of twelve Northern Ireland companies will be visiting SXSW Interactive 2010 in Austin Texas in March.
We have decided to build this blog to provide an easy means of getting the latest information about Northern Ireland companies that will be attending. It’s very early days but over the next couple of weeks we’ll be creating profiles of all the companies that will be taking part and we’ll try to create as many as possible AudioBoos so you can hear each of the firms talk about their technologies.
