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SXSWi 2008: “Cognitive Seduction 4.0: 20 ways to woo our users” panel notes

Cognitive Seduction 4.0: 20 ways to woo our users Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users For this panel, I’ll admit my notes were a bit patchy and I relied on a few other ppl’s notes to improve them. I was too mesmerised by Kathy’s talk to worry so much about notes. But read on anyways… I’ve [...]

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SXSWi 2008: “A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe?” panel notes

Since I attended SXSW last week, I thought it’d be the right thing to do to share my notes from panels. They’re incomplete, I’ve probably interpreted some statements wrongly, there are probably plenty of typos. But I felt I’d be a complete shmuck if I didn’t do the community thang and shared my notes. So [...]

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Hippie 2.0: Reflecting upon SXSW 2008

South by SouthWest is over. Well, the interactive bit is anyways. Music is clearly still going strong, as I witnessed walking down 6th Street and lucking out on seeing Simian Mobile Disco at La Zona Rosa with a few of the geeks still left in town. Reflecting upon the past week, it’s comforting to see [...]

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SXSW Day 1: Reconnaissance mission

It’s only day 1 of SXSW but it’s already been quite the trek! Left work around 4pm on Wednesday to go stay at a Gatwick hotel, avoiding the 3-4am start required if I’d tried to leave Cambridge the morning of the flight. Wise move as I managed to get up at 6:30am, feeling fairly refreshed [...]

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Going to SXSW? Let it be known!

If you’re going to South by Southwest in March, let it be known. Add yourself to the wiki list started by Colleen and Adele, two Twitterers I’m following. It’ll be a first-time for me, so I’m open to any opportunity to plan to meet and hang out with other bloggers or Twitterers! [Update: Durr, forgot [...]

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SXSW ’08 – I’m going, are you?

It’s late afternoon, and I’m hyperventilating. It might be the caffeine I’ve been ingesting hourly since I stepped into the office, it could be the nerves because Taptu is launching Monday, and I’ve just invited hundreds of people to the beta. But no… what’s really got me going right now is that I’m attending SXSW [...]

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