In the late ’70s, CBGB & OMFUG was the beachhead of American punk. A wide array of artists first gained acclaim at CBGB, including Television, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and Blondie. Some of those artists were on hand to share their memories of the venerable club on the panel "CBGB Stories" at the SXSW 2010 Music Conference. Moderated by David Katznelson of Birdman Recording Group Inc, the speakers included Blondie drummer Clem Burke, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz of the Talking Heads, and Seymour Stein, CEO of Sire Records. Founder and CCO of The Orchard, Richard Gottehrer, was also on the panel via Skype.
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SXSW: iPhone. The next generation gaming platform
With the launch of iPhone 3G and the App Store, Apple has created a marketplace for developers to innovate with native applications. One of the greatest successes has been with gaming and entertainment titles, and even Apple has been marketing iPhone as a portable gaming device. Will iPhone and iPod touch rival the dominance of Nintendo DS and Sony PSP? Hear from gaming experts who have embraced iPhone as the new gaming platform.
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SXSWi 2010: Power-Ups & Press: How the Game Media Impacts the Gaming Industry
From Pong to Starcraft II, from BBS to Twitter, from G4 to Ustream, how have media advancements shape the way we talk about video games? A creative crew of game press forerunners from unique backgrounds chat about their craft, history, observations, and predictions.
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Doing it Wrong: Recently Possible Technology
Like ninjas battling on stage, Bre Pettis and Tal Chalzin will volley projects demonstrations back and forth. From guitar player robots to machines that vomit plastic skulls, the presentation will include a mix of projects they’ve worked on and that have been worked on at the GarageGeeks, NYCResistor and beyond. This presentation will both thrill and repulse you with the possibilities that have recently emerged in the diy hacker technology space.
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Kick-Ass Mash-Ups with Punk Rock APIs
Tired of re-inventing the wheel? Wish there was a single grand unified API layer over everything? In this panel we’ll gather data from a dozen different popular sites and services and present it all under a single API, using nothing but stone knives, bear skins, free online tools, and client-side JavaScript. From http://sxsw.com/node/1765
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iPhone Development for Experienced Web Developers
From http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/videos_and_podcasts
A technology case study of combining an online web service API with a native iPhone application. Specifically for experienced Web developers, we’ll provide an introduction to Objective-C and the iPhone platform, cover technical details from the web services API design to URL loading and parsing on the iPhone.
Jordan Lev — Sr. Web Developer, Babcock & Jenkins Joshua Siler — VP Technology, Babcock
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CSS3 Design with HTML5
As HTML5 and CSS3 gets written, browser vendors are already incorporating their new features allowing for greater design and functionality. However, some major browsers haven’t. How should developers build for a constantly moving target? This panel discusses dealing with those older browsers and embracing new Web design technologies with practical HTML5 and CSS3 demonstrations.
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From Freelance to Agency: Start Small, Stay Small
The web has always attracted mavericks and entrepreneurs, and a rocky economy makes the freelance life more desirable (or at least more inevitable) than ever. So what happens when your freelance business starts to grow? How big can you get without getting bad? How can freelancers and small teams compete with traditional agencies? Hip freelancers and cool agency heads will answer questions, compare experiences, and tell their stories.
Jeffrey Zeldman, Happy Cog Studios
Roger Black, Roger Black Studio
Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic
Whitney Hess
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iPhone Programmer’s Road Map: A Guided Tour of the Official SDK
The iPhone SDK Developer’s Guide starts by introducing the tools (Xcode, SDK, emulator, IB) and basic application concepts you need to assemble and run your first GUI application. It includes a very quick introduction/review of the Object C programming language, but assumes basic knowledge of C and OO programming.Key idioms and design patterns in an iPhone application will be presented along with coverage of the UIController, MVC, event handler etc. Later chapters cover the standard high level widgets in the iPhone SDK, the events they generate, as well as their standard event listeners. Low level drawing API and touch events will also be covered in addition to iPhone-specific APIs to access mobile. Concise coverage of key data network protocols and data communication libraries and a complete chapter on how to use the Interface Builder to build applications complete this hands-on guide to tapping into the power of the SDK.
Michael Yuan, eZee Inc
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43f Podcast: John Gruber & Merlin Mann
SxSW ’09 - Gruber & Mann - HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility!
My pal, John Gruber (from daringfireball.net), and I presented a talk at South by Southwest Interactive on Saturday, March 14th. We talked about building a blog you can be proud of, trying to improve the quality of your work, reaching the people you admire, and maybe even making a buck (in a way that doesn’t blow your deal). Here’s what we had to say:
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