McKinney's SXSW Journal

This is from @fishofthebay, Eric Fisher, a Social Design Strategist, product architect and author of Facebook's Social Design Guidelines.   My apologies if these notes do not make sense, it was a...

Of course this is interesting to me, based on my work with Wuhu and McKinney.   AKQA’s  chief creative officer, Rei Inamoto, is speaking.  He has a nice, low key speaking style,   I will get out...

A lot of people at SXSW 2012 are talking about how agencies should be making things. Though it has been exciting (and intimidating) to see and hear about the things agencies have made in the last year...

"Its not the ideas you have that give you an edge, its the ability to make….the future of marketing is not advertising."  -Robbie Whiting from Duncan/Shannon I've been to a lot of panels and talks...

Ben Silberman takes us through a brief history of Pinterest. It was originally launched in November of 2009.  He sent the first email out to 200 of his close friends, of which only half opened the email...

The New York Times investigative journalist Charles Duhigg co-wrote the series of articles about the economics of Apple's manufacturing practices overseas (the iEconomy). He also talked about his new...

Beware of the magic (seduced by the power of possibility) The technical director of R/Ga Phil Hawksworth (@philhawksworth) warns everyone to be careful of doing things just because we can. As an industry...

Amber Case, @caselogic, thinks technology killed our sense of direction. Up until the 20th century tools were made to augment our physical abilities.  I pick up a hammer and my arm can now pound the...

Can apply for a dot whateveryouwant.  Application is $185k. With no guarantee.  Wow! Need to have a ten year commitment.  and a ton of paperwork.  Nationwide should do this, given their...