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Facebook Connects Users with iPhone Apps

Over the weekend, Facebook launched Facebook Connect for the iPhone and iPod Touch at SXSW. Developers area already taking advantage of Facebook Platform APIs to add social features to many iPhone applications.

Vote For Your SXSW SEO Sessions

The initial submissions of session suggestions for the Interactive portion of SXSW that made the first cut have been published. Now it’s up to the voting public to decide which sessions make it next. I’ve heard a bit of feedback from last year’s attendees on the quality of content in the search engine optimization sessions, so it will be nice to see what makes it this year.

Twitter And The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

When I arrived 15-minutes into the now famous interview of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, by BusinessWeek reporter Sarah Lacy the audience had already turned (it was two days ago and it still is the #1 topic of conversation on blogs and at SXSW, which is the conference that this happened at).

The Good And Bad Of Twitter At SXSW

If last year's SXSW was Twitter's coming out party, this year it achieved utility status.  A utility is something that is always on, and essential.  To lose it would be to thrust yourself into the dark ages.  Water, electricity, gas ... and Twitter.  Sound like an exaggeration?  Not for anyone who has spent the last few days watching the incessant live twittering at SXSW.  Because not every reader is as tricked out in extreme geekdom as those at SXSW, here's a brief description of Twitter:

SXSW Crowd Turns On Reporter

BusinessWeek's Sarah Lacy says she did her best interviewing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during yesterday's SXSW keynote. The (hostile) crowd there begs to differ.Add to the drama a quote destined for the annals of the Professional Journalism Hall of Fame, if there is such a thing, a message to the crowd from Ms. Lacy:

SXSW Swag

As anyone who has been to SXSW (a huge music, film and interactive conference happening now in Austin, TX) knows, after you have registered for your badge, you have the chance to go downstairs to a different room where you will pick up your "big bag."  It's the canvas bag with all the brochures, flyers, magazines, and other assorted free stuff that you get as a registrant to the event. If you are registered for the Film, Interactive and Music events, you get three of these big bags ...

No Facebook Music Details In SxSW Keynote

A keynote at SXSW Interactive with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerman got a touch ugly when the crowd booed interviewer and BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy for fawning over Zuckerman and her softball questions.