The interactive portion of the South by Southwest festival concluded yesterday in Austin, TX. Here is a look back at the top moments from this year’s event:
- Enterprising attendees save time by pronouncing festival’s name as Six-Saw
- Handshake that will someday lead to two Chapter 11 bankruptcies occurs
- Everyone with real job stays home
- 250,000th time someone mentions they could totally see themselves living in Austin for a few years at least
- Happy hour where Pete from tech talked to some guy who works at Facebook
- Everyone unknowingly networks with exact same people from last year’s festival
- Organizers print up a few hundred more “Bryce” nametags
- The festival once again honors veterans in its field when 22-year-old Android app developer Josh Nathe is given the SXSW Lifetime Achievement Award
- Seventy tons of Fuze Beverage promotional iPhone cases trucked to Austin-area landfill
- The game—the whole game, all of it—completely changed. The future is here. The future is now.