Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Mobile with sketch notes

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Saturday 10th March 2012

• Making the Real World Easier to Use

  by Dennis Crowley and MG Siegler

  The term "social media" is quickly becoming obsolete. The social graph is moving from our computers into the real world, and soon everything we experience will be overlaid with the thoughts and feelings of our friends. Early adopters are already starting to experience this phenomenon. For instance, foursquare alerts you when you're near places that your friends like, and provides you with suggestions from your friends on what to experience at those places. Other companies are attempting to create this type of engagement with television shows ("10 of your friends are watching!") and music. In this session, Dennis Crowley, Co-founder and CEO of foursquare, will have a conversation about how mobile technology is accelerating the social graph's move into the offline world, and how services like foursquare are taking this kind of augmented real-world exploration mainstream.

  • experiences
  • Mobile
  • Social Graph
  • Social Media

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Saturday 10th March

  In Exhibit Hall 5, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage sketch note audio clip

Sunday 11th March 2012

• The Payment Revolution is Coming: Welcome to Interchange Zero

  by Seth Priebatsch

  When money flows frictionlessly, good things happen. Good things for small businesses. Good things for consumers. Good things for the economy as a whole. The game layer and the mobile payments space are on a crash course, and it's going to be awesome. So awesome that it’ll force credit card interchange rates to zero and pump 50 billion dollars a year back into the economy. Sounds crazy, but before Al Gore invented the internet, we never imagined information would flow so freely. As soon as the friction was removed from information-transfer, a new economy emerged that changed the way we do business. The same is about to happen with money. It's just another medium of information, and it's high time to suck the friction out of the economy. There are two elements driving this transition to interchange zero 1) the technology that’s driving fees down (along with some far-reaching legislation thanks to Dick Durbin) and 2) the information inherent in payments that’s being leveraged to drive revenues up. Join Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja of SCVNGR + LevelUp for a fast-paced session on how a combination of mobile payment startups (even the ones being formed by big companies), The Durbin Amendment, and a tipping point in consumer behavior will completely change the way we think about money -- maybe even re-wire how our economy works.

  • Mobile
  • Mobile Payments

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Sunday 11th March

  In Ballroom D, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip sketch note