It was a misty San Francisco eve and there was not a geek to be found, that was, until you entered the doors of a
dark alleyway into the venue hosting Friday night’s most geek-a-licious event.
The occasion being the Revision3 five-year anniversary party and live Diggnation recording by our ever-so-popular heroes: Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht. Hordes of fans, engineers, gamers and techies filled the dark-lit hall which was plastered with spotlights, tech banners and tunes that were blasting from everywhere.
The live Digg show looked to have brought in fans from many distant places, including some we met from Ireland. The laser lights turned on while the other music and lights went down. Everyone stared at the projector screens trying to figure out what was about to happen.
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As smelly tour vans with bald tires wobble into Austin for the music leg of SXSW, still kicking around on my dashboard are the twitpics, 140 character pull quotes and notes gathered from four days of interactive sessions.
Two big news announcements at SXSW Interactive 2010 centered around enabling more easily distributed and personalized real-time information.
At the second annual Bigg Digg Shindig, CEO Jay Adelson announced that Digg is redesigning the site, increasing site speed and incorporating customizable features, including access to personal feeds from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and OpenID.
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30 June 2010 By Perfect Market
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