August Jackson
Competitive Intelligence and Strategy Professional, Tech Pundit and Bad Speller at Verizon. The opinions expressed here are my own.

Interactive Festival will feature five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, the unparalleled SXSW Trade Show and an unbeatable lineup of special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the...

DCWEEK is a festival in the US capital focused on bringing together designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and social innovators of all kinds. It’s a series of 100s of distributed events powered by the community and complemented by core conferences, parties, and projects created by the festival organizers iStrategyLabs and Tech Cocktail. DCWEEK...

Come meet the legendary business icon, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop, a managing director at VC firm Garage Technology Ventures, former chief evangelist for Apple Inc. and author of eight books—most recently Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions. Guy Kawasaki

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Join us Woodrow Wilson House on Thursday, May 19th from 6:30-8:30 PM as we toast the launch of author Garrett Peck's new book "Prohibition in Washington, DC: How Dry We Weren't," published by The History Press.

The follow-up to Garrett’s first book, "The Prohibition Hangover: Alcohol in America from Demon Rum to Cult...

An international song contest broadcast live every year since 1956, the Eurovision Song Contest brings together 43 countries for a competition transmitted simultaneously around the globe. Through one of their European Broadcasting Union television stations, countries select a singer and song to compete, and cast their vote for the most popular song...

This year's unique format will provide enhanced educational services and increased networking opportunities with key industry players for non-stop relationship building, interaction, and best-practices from competitive intelligence professionals at this premiere industry event. The Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) is...

Come and join us for our annual IMSA NYC Spring get together...

Don't miss out on the chance to catch up with fellow alumni and learn about developments at the Academy. Previous gatherings have been a chance to see familiar faces, as well as meet people from other classes who have more in common with you than you'd ever imagine. Yare...

Have you ever looked at the Sky Mall catalog and say to yourself "How have I gone this long without an ankle air conditioner?"

Probably not but the fact is that there are a lot of start ups and more will be formed before you finish reading this description. It's getting harder and harder to get the attention you need to...

Most companies are content to pursue adaptation strategies in times of high uncertainty – sense and respond quickly to events as they unfold. While adaptation is certainly valuable, it misses a much greater opportunity – the ability to shape entire markets or industries in ways that create significant advantage for the shaper. While most...

Join Rackspace Hosting, the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and OpenStack, the fastest growing open source cloud project creating the open standard cloud operating system, for some fun and arcade games! We hope to see you there, free food and drinks for all!

From an introduction to value pricing to case studies to client relationships, how value pricing can help to abolish the hourly and find a better way to business success, for you and for your clients.

Traditional business practice dictates that the way to bill your clients is to first figure out your costs by taking salaries + overhead + profit to...

Next Stage will feature a debate on Net Neutrality, to compliment SXSW Interactive’s special late break programming. Hear Cindy Cohn represent the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s perspective, moderated by Maggie Reardon of CNET. More TBA.

The future of entertainment is one of uncertainty and opportunity. As traditional formats like television and movies lose eyeballs to video games and user-generated content, where is this creative revolution taking us? Join one of leading voices in scripted internet content, Felicia Day, in discussing the journey that took her from a video shot...

This panel examines the recent developments around net neutrality, one of the more misunderstood principles among the crowd of odd phrasings generated within contemporary telecommunications practice and policy. The panel will (1) present the concrete info about net neutrality – what it is and isn’t, and the circumstances that generated the...

Social media applications encounter messy user-generated data in blog posts, status updates, tweets, user profiles, etc. These documents contain free-form text that obeys no particular rules of grammar, punctuation or spelling. If the data is so messy, how can a computer program recognize adult content or hate speech or spam? How can a computer...

With live performances by Innerpartysystem, Moneypenny and I Need Sugar

Come to get your drink on at this year's must-attend SXSW party. Open bar for all that attend from 10p-4a! This is officially the latest party in Austin, so get in early and stay for the madness.

The second annual Tech Cocktail SXSW will kick off the third annual SXSW Accelerator program and showcase 30+ early stage startups for an evening of conversation. The event is aimed at better connecting, educating and amplifying the SXSW Interactive community.

Join us for an evening of fun mingling with other technology enthusiasts, innovators,...

Calling all Data Geeks! Does the word data get you excited? Have you already RSVP'd without bothering to read the read of the description? No? Here's some more buzz words for you: Big Data, Data Science, NoSQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Predictive Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Large Scale Graph Analysis,...

How can we use text to tell us what is happening in the real world?  Text-driven forecasting is the challenge of making concrete, testable predictions about future events and trends from publicly available text data.  Text-based modeling methods make it possible to discover the agendas and attitudes behind the words people use.  In this...

Trading on news is not new. Terminals have had news readers attached from the time trading went electronic. What is new is who, or what, is trading on news. Born from a hybrid of technological capability, electronification of the markets, algorithmic trading, and a little influence from the intelligence community, black box trading systems are...

Come visit us at Momo's, www.momosclub.com, as we record some of your favorite TWiT shows - The Tech Guy, Tech News Today, and This Week in Tech with special guests Gina Trapani and Jeff Jarvis - LIVE! Afterward, stick around for our official TWiT meetup to mingle and meet Leo, Tom, Sarah, Brian, and members of the awesome TWiT army. Then...

With the rise of cheap electronic devices like Nike+, Adidas miCoach and Nintendo's WiiFit, this panel looks at how technology is increasingly becoming part of the everyday fitness regime and what personal and wider social benefits this brings. The Core Conversation will explore these sites and devices and discuss what makes them useful as...

Monitoring. Listening. Tracking. Measuring. No, this isn't a covert CIA operation: It's the way brands and businesses are marketing...and selling...to YOU, Customer 2.0. Is it creepy? Regardless, it's also a reality, and it's working tremendously, as well as being adopted at a rapid rate by everyone from your local coffee shop...

Before a single pixel is created, a line of code is written, or a marketing plan is conceived, a prospective app should be looked at strategically. Questions like, “What devices should be targeted?,” “Which category provides the best opportunity for success?,” or "How much will this app cost?," can have direct impacts on...