SXSW Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Gravidi wants to put clickable hotspots on videos for iOS

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 14th, 2013)

At SXSW I found a kiosk showing off a beta of the app Gravidi. It allows producers to add a layer of interactivity to videos by embedding hotspots in the video, and adding other activity around it. For users, it provides a way to learn more about moments in a video, or people or objects in that ...

Double Fine music game, Dungelot 2 and 7th Guest 3 all coming soon to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2013)

There was big news this week of three different high-profile games coming to the App Store soon. First up, Tim Schafer's great Double Fine studio is working on a music game called Dropchord, which will be available for Windows, Mac and iOS at launch. The game is set to work with the Leap Motion ...

PayPal introducing new iOS SDK, APIs at SXSW

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2013)

PayPal has announced that it's bringing a new iOS SDK and some new API tools to SXSW next week. As you might expect, the API will allow apps to use PayPal's tools to integrate payment information directly rather than having to go through a separate authorization page. As you can see on the ...

Daily Update for December 24, 2012

by Steven Sande (Dec 24th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Daily Update for March 9, 2012

by Steven Sande (Mar 9th, 2012)

AT&T uses COWs to boost SXSW coverage

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 18th, 2011)

Three years ago AT&T took a hit at SXSW with terrible coverage due to unanticipated demand on its service from the then-new iPhone. I was there, and while I didn't have an iPhone at the time (I was still rocking a BlackBerry on Sprint) I did see the slow-to-nonexistent coverage iPhone users ...

Companies to watch, from the SXSW trade show floor

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 15th, 2011)

After a tour of the SXSW trade show floor, here are some of the companies we'll be profiling in the coming weeks. Of course, there's always a mix of companies at SXSW: some film, some music, many web services -- but far fewer social media companies than last year. We've covered RedLaser and ...

Liveblog from SXSW: Can indie iPhone game development survive?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 12th, 2011)

SXSW Interactive has just begun and I'm sitting in a panel with a group of rock star game devs (well, some are more designers, and Alan Knitwoski is not a dev, but a business guy): Stephen Broumley, Peter Franco, David Kalina, Heather Kelley, Alan Knitowski. They will attempt to answer the ...

Dispatches from the iPad 2 front lines

by Steven Sande (Mar 11th, 2011)

11:45 AM (Steve Sande): I'm here at the Aspen Grove Apple Store in Littleton, Colorado, and fortunately it's warm and clear. I'm at about the 20th person in line, and my cohort in crime Erica Sadun just showed up. It's a congenial group in line this morning. Apparently, the first person in ...

Apple has set up a temporary Apple Store in Austin, TX for SXSW

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 10th, 2011)

Apple is leasing retail space in downtown Austin for the upcoming South by Southwest conference. The temporary retail store will be located at Sixth and Congress Street and preparations are under way for a Friday opening. This debut coincides with the launch of the iPad 2 and the SXSW conference ...

EightBit goes HTML5 for SXSW

by Chris Ward (Mar 9th, 2011)

Sure, Foursquare is fun if you like that sort of thing (me, I'm too embarrassed to show my friends that I barely leave the house, let alone reveal to them where I go when I do drag myself out of my pit). But really, what you want to have is not just more fun than Foursquare offers -- you want ...

Seen at SXSW: rejected app Holopic

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 22nd, 2010)

There's nothing offensive about Holopic. It's a rather ingenious app that (according to the developer) uses just a couple of pictures to create a sort of lenticular lens pseudo-3D effect. That is, when you tilt the image you can see other angles in the image, like 3D, but it isn't true 3D. ...

TUAW @SXSW: Christina talks to Guy Kawasaki

by Christina Warren (Mar 17th, 2009)

Former Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki was at SXSW Interactive this week and I had the chance to catch-up with him and talk about the announcement of My.Alltop, a customizable version of Alltop.com. Alltop is a really good way to quickly catch up on a lot of news about a specific topic. NetNewsWire ...

Foursquare tries the Dodgeball concept again on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Mar 17th, 2009)

We're right in the middle of convention season and as I noted last night on the Talkcast, I'm here in Chicago (at least the weather's nice) instead of down in Austin with the rest of the gang. But there is a little consolation: I've had a chance to try out SXSW's newest software darling, Foursquare. ...

Found Footage: Kevin Rose on iPhone 3.0 features

by Steven Sande (Mar 16th, 2009)

Here's a short video from SXSW with DiggNation hosts Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose, where Rose goes through a laundry list of iPhone 3.0 features that will allegedly be announced tomorrow during the Apple Press Event. This video sounds rather alcohol-fueled -- at least it appears that the ...