Kanye West and Kate Moss plan to collaborate at SXSW, Windows introduces the newest Internet Explorer, and monkeys are capable of using iPhones. Plus! Jessica Biel does Charity:Water, Time Warner’s Internet TV and Conan O’Brien’s secret saline eye drops!
1. SXSW: With all of the social media nerds tweeting about their Austin whereabouts, Glynnis MacNicol points out the obvious:
“For the first time I can recall, Twitter’s reaction to current events totally insufficient.”
[The Idealist + Representation at the Hotel Cecilia]
[The Barbarian Group & StumbleUpon Present TOS Violation]
[SXSW Foursquare Party Day Two]
[SXSW Ignite Social Media Party Day One]
- Abolish SXSW! A rant by Mike Taylor for the [Observer]
- Did SXSW give us all a peak at what the post PC world looks like? [CNet]
“Best thing I’ve seen at SXSW hands down – a monkey using an iPhone.” (left) [@jennydeluxe]
“Looking down is the new looking up.” [WSJ]
Barry Diller spoke about the growing tech bubble at SXSW: “So is there a tech bubble, as evidenced by the paper valuations of companies like Facebook, Groupon, and Twitter? “Well, we’re puffing it up pretty nicely,” Diller said, calling the multibillion-dollar valuations of companies with high user engagement but unproven long-term revenue “mathematically insane.”[CNet]
Ogilvynotes has done a FANTASTIC job of sketching out the conferences best panels: [Ogilvy]
The Foursquare party, like most every party at sxsw this weekend, looked like this: (read: too packed to move). [NM]
2. Kate Moss actually parties like a rock star. Kanye West has invited Moss to join him on stage at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, this week! The bonded last week during Paris fashion week. [Mirror UK]
3. Microsoft welcomes Internet Explorer 9! [Mashable]
Internet Explorer 9 had its new debut at a launch event at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. So far the reviews have been good!
“IE9 is not just an update to IE8, but a complete rebuild of Microsoft’s popular but maligned browser. It boasts radical speed and graphics improvements, thanks to its increased adherence to web standards and use of hardware acceleration. On stage, Hachamovitch touted its advanced support for HTML5 and its UI improvements. Everything from the back button to the taskbar has been revamped.”
The newest version of Internet Explorer will be available at midnight tonight!
4. Game Changing. How to watch live TV anywhere in your house with Time Warner Cable’s New iPad App. FINALLY. [BI]
“The cable provider rolled out a new iPad app today called TWCable TV, which lets you stream live channels over wi-fi. We just briefly tested the app, and it works! While the channel selection is limited, and you have to sit through all the commercials, the video quality is good.”
5. Nate Silver provides his insights in the advancement probabilities of teams in the NCAA basketball tournament. [NYT]
6. Google is reportedly going to unveil a new social network called “Circles” sometime in May. [TNW]
7. “Twitter has had a lot of logos but this was the first.”[@jack]
8. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone hired by Huffington Post. Guess they had some money, what with AOL firing 20 percent of their staff and HuffPo not paying their bloggers and all. [ION]
9. Check out the 2011 best gadgets from the guys at [Details]
10. Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel may have called it quits but the two still remain supportive of each other. And of our friend Scott Harrison’s efforts. Jessica is donating her 29th birthday to Charity:Water, and is close to reaching her goal of $10k. Check out JT’s tweet: [@jtimberlake]
11. The Pope is getting his own Facebook page. But, not the current Pope, the old one: John Paul II who has already passed away. What’s the use? His beautification efforts by the Vatican of course! Is it odd that this makes sense to me thanks to my Catholic School upbringing (it ‘aint easy becoming a saint. duh.) [AP]
12. Will leave you with Conan O’Brien being interviewed by Randi Zuckerberg at SXSW:
Question:“How do you envision media and tech intertwining in the future?”
Answer: “I’m inventing saline eye drops that are going to let you watch TV shows whenever you want. The nasal spray is coming next.”
