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Q: What's this?
A: Notes from the interactive track at SXSW 2010 by one Finnish girl. A mishmash from, related to or inspired by the event.
If I see something that's changing the game I'M ON IT. So let's do this.
PS. for everyone I met in Austin: find me at twitter.com/vuokko and we'll take it from there. Thanks!
I’m sure you’ve read all about @anywhere, which was launched during the SXSW keynote by Evan Williams. And as expected, real insight from @ev’s talk didn’t come from the launch video. It came from the quotes:
“People think of Twitter as a social network, but we think of it as an information network. It’s like asking: “What is the internet?” It’s an information network.”
On openness <-> transparency:
“A window is transparent, but you can open a door. You can look through a window and see what people are doing on the other side, but a door is something you can open and start messing around with what’s happening.
Openness is a survival mechanism, although it has to be controlled a lot. It can be used against us. We are constantly sending cease-and-desist letters to makers of “the ultimate twitter marketing spam shotgun tool”. All ecosystems are like that. They need management and they need shepherding.
If you’re closed, there’s always more value in working around you. But if you’re open, there’s not that much reason in going around.”
On product development:
“Everything is infinitely expandable if you zoom in closer.”
On the digital divide, crisis areas and censorship:
“The internet is a tidal wave that eventually nobody will be able to hold up. There are walls in the internet, but you can SMS through them. SMS is incremental to us in places like India, where SMS is ubiquitous. And in Haiti, Chile and Iran, the simplest mobile phone that can send and receive SMS could transmit a tiny bit of information that makes an enormous difference.”
