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When we were turned on to Trover just days before South By Southwest we knew they had something special. Trover didn’t get any of the Mashable mentions prior to or during SXSW yet they were still all over the place. Discovery was the hotest app category at SXSW this year. Last year group apps were
The Mobile Worker has grown ten fold in the last five years. According to this infographic published by our friends at Meshin, a mobile worker is: “Any worker who uses a mobile device (including laptops, smartphones an tablets) and accesses networks to do their job at home, in the field, or while traveling for work”
On Tuesday at South By Southwest Interactive Rdio introduced and announced new features to both their web based and mobile apps. The features include drag and drop playlist creation, more personalization and private playlists. They’ve also made Rdio more social by allowing users to view music, playlists and other user’s networks. Now all users can
There’s a lot of buzz about the marketing project “Homeless Hotspots” this year at South By South West Interactive. In the project, seen in the above Mashable video, 13 homeless men were charged with the task of recruiting passerbys to use their wifi for a nominal donation. The average donation was $2.00 for 15 minutes.
The Tweets, Google Plus messages, Facebook Status’ and even Instagr.am photos are echoing the same theme; at South By Southwest smartphone and tablet batteries aren’t keeping up. We’ve seen pictures of people bringing multiple power strips to the Austin Convention Center. Samsung has stationed several of their “airport” charging stations all over the convention center
For those of you familiar with the Pulse news reader app for Android you are well aware of the awesome interface and easy reading ability of your RSS feeds via Pulse. Well Pulse was on hand at South By Southwest in Austin Texas this weekend to announce new local features. Local news has become an
Anyone who’s familiar with Cyanogen Mod, and Team Douche, knows K-Mobs. If you know K-Mobs he’s one busy dude. K-Mobs is busy studying to be a doctor, working on cyanogenmod, being a resident tech guru and riding his bike around the streets of Austin Texas. That’s why he tweeted @thedroidguy and @mypowerbag with his location
While this story doesn’t center around an Android app or any app for that matter it’s incredibly cool. Threads for thought has teamed with Junk Food, Promo Jam, and Rock The Vote to produce a really cool t-shirt to promote registering to vote, but wait there’s more. This unique t-shirt has a qr code embedded
Glomper is an exciting new app with a funny name that debuted here at SXSW Interactive in Austin Texas this week. Once the weather cleared we started seeing Glomper peope everywhere with shirts on that say “Hug me I’m awesome”. Apparently Glomper mean hug. However this app is not the hugging app. Glomper Events is
If you haven’t heard of the travel website mygola.com then you’re missing a great bit of information. If you’re a frequent traveller you may want to check out the site which puts a different spin on travel. What separates Mygola from other travel sites is that the site does more than just hook you up
Last night’s Mashable party at South By Southwest was as usual, off the chain, libations were flowing, people were dancing it was the place to be seen. We heard that Danny DeVito, Justin Long and Ryan Gosling may or may not have been there. We didn’t see Long nor Gosling and we thought we’d recognize
Monstro is a cool new app for Android that aggregates what’s popular and trending musically on Twitter. It’s the first music site that unleashes the full potential of Twitter when it comes to music search, sharing and discovery. Once the music is aggregated Monstro links the user to where they can buy it, or stream
We’ve written quite a bit about Meshin the past few months. Meshin is an exciting app/project/development company out of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto California. Meshin is headed up by Chris Holmes and Kristen Galliani. We had a chance to sit down with the Meshin team (a few times) at South By
The smart and connected tv box market has really grown in the last year. It’s become a very crowded space and after the flop of the original Google TV launch many people backed off the technology. It seemed that the connected TV or Smart TV may have been just a tad before it’s time. So
We are here at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin Texas this week. On Sunday we got to hear Instagr.am co-founder and CEO Kevin Systrom talk some impressive numbers about the iOS photo taking and sharing app. Systrom reported that Instagr.am currently has 27 million users now. That’s nearly double the 15 million users that
Despite all the hubub of Highlights, Glancee and Instagram, there are some other great apps breaking out here at South by Southwest. One of those apps is rawporter. rawporter combines the world of citizen, social and somewhat crowd-sourced news with a freelance model that allows publishers and other media outlets to source video from everyday
This year Google took over a whole street at South By Southwest. Rainey Street was turned into the Google Village. Unbeknownst to Google when they booked this fun shindig it would rain all weekend so it was a great street to be on. Google took over the Lustre Pearl bar which was the same bar
Winning Power Bags at South By Southwest 2012 is really easy and this guy found that out. All you have to do is tweet @thedroidguy and @mypowerbag when your phone or tablet is going dead. Include your location and the hash tag #sxswPowerUp and if we’re near by and you agree to be on video,
South By Southwest is filled with “brand ambassadors”, promoters and flyer passer outers, in fact we’re doing a little of that too. It has always been a fact of life and most people are nice about taking flyers because the mentality of the South By Southwest attendee is absorb every piece of info you can.
If you are in Austin Texas for South By Southwest you may want to pay close attention because you could easily win a brand new Powerbag. For complete instructions visit here. It’s really that easy. The Powerbag was one of the best accessories we saw at CES 2012. The bag comes with an internal power