Only two days left to the end of this year’s SXSW Festival. One more time, I’m so jealous of people who attending to the festival. SXSW Interactive is getting more and more popular over the years, even can be named as new Cannes for the digital advertising geeks. Some of the top speakers; Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research Social Media Researcher, Twitter CEO Evan Williams (By the way the tipping point for Twitter’s popularity was the 2007 SXSW festival. During the fest usage went from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000), Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Erik Bethke from Zynga (Famously known with its Facebook game, Farmville), Lucy Bradshaw from Electronic Arts and the list goes on with other famous key speakers.
Efe Cakarel from The Auteurs ( fabulous online film website) is also a panelist at SXSW and will be talking about online film distribution. Last month with the support of the Auteurs, the first of its kind in the world, 5 selected movies were screened to the audiences in Istanbul and at the same time screened online to reach wider audiences across different geographies including some regions of Turkey, Yerevan (Armenia), Tblisi (Georgia), Ramallah (Palestine) and Tangiers (Morocco) during the If Istanbul Film Festival.
I want to end this post with a photo from Austin’s famous 6th Street, where is impossible to walk during the festival times.
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