What is SXSW?
SXSW (South by South West) is a conference held every year in Austin Texas, United States. This conference is divided into 3 major sets of SXSW Interactive, SXSW Music and SXSW Film. First began in 1987, today SXSW is one of the most profitable event in Austin. It’s going to be held from March 12th to March 21st 2010 which attracts more than 15,000 participants every year.
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What’s so special about SXSW Events?
As you know that, this whole event of SXSW is divided into three main groups of Interactive, Films and Music. This entire combination make a tremendous get-together hub for people associated with various industries like web, technology, start-ups, music bands, movies etc. So, sensibly open the doors of opportunities, ideas, information and of course lots of businesses too.
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SXSW Interactive:
I am a blogger, new media entrepreneur and technology freak. Though, I am not so lucky to attend SXSW but SXSW Interactive would be the best category of event to attend by me. Interactive was never a part of SXSW till the year 1993. But now, it attracts thousands of professionals from web and technology every year. Hey, do you know that Twitter was launched in SXSW Interactive in 2007? It’s no wonder why Twitter founders decided to make SXSW a launch pad for their microblogging website which really ruled SXSW conference 2007 and now ruling the world of social media.
If you are a blogger you can also meet some most valued bloggers of the world in SXSW Austin. WordPress is throwing a WordPress BBQ at SXSW and many wordpress fans are going to attend this.
If you wish to meet Chris Brogan , Darren Rowse and Brain Clark or want to attend SXSW Interactive panels of Google, Twitter or have a great time with Top blogs Mashable and Techcrunch then you are seriously running out of time. SXSW is already going on with full fun and lots of buzz.
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SXSW Music:
SXSW Music was started as music festival and successively became top music festival in United States. It is a best showcase for music talents with more than 80 stages and musicians from all over the globe to attend this event which is not less than a pilgrimage for Musicians.
GWAR is going to pump up some hardcore rock music at SXSW, Dawes and The Doors will be the major attention in SXSW Music too.
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SXSW Film Festival
and Conference is best for witnessing some finest talents and creative minds behind the scenes. Many top movies have been screened on SXSW. This year A NY Thing, Always a Bride, Beijing Taxi and Brotherhood are some most talkative movies going to be screened on SXSW Film festival.
SXSW has inspired similar festivals in Denton(NX35) Tornoto (North by North East), and Tucson(West by South West WXSW)
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How many Indians are attending SXSW 2010?
Not too many Indians are going to attend SXSW 2010 but their are few who can be their this time. Most of them are based in U.S so they are definitely not going to miss this opportunity and for them to fly Austin will be fun,those who are in India,may be time and money are big concern which is stopping them to be a part of this outstanding event.
One of the biggest name in Social Media is Om Malik of Gigaom Network will be there with his crew.I am not sure about Anil Dash’s plans on SXSW 2010
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Other Indians joining SXSW are
- Purva Patel writer in Houston Chronicle.
- Jigar Patel Student at Birmingham City University, MA in social media.
- Rohit Bhargava From Washington, Employee at ogilivy, Blogger at influentialmarketingblog.com.
- Samir Bhavnani from San Diego vice president at expotv.com .
- Navdeep Chhina
- Krutal Desai from Berkeley California, College Graduate working on start-up.
- Ruchit Garg from Seattle, blogger at siliconverse.com.
- Ro Gupta from New York City work for disqus.com.
- Aziz Ahmed Gilani from Houston Texas, Venture Capital Professional.
- Venson Kuchipudi from Chicago Social Media Evangelist.
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I wish, Indian social media trend setters should take initiative in doing something like SXSW Events to formulate a connection between social media fanatics, bloggers, new media entrepreneurs and technology geeks to come up on one stage and calculate the potential of Indian Social Media Circle which I think have bright and strong future with lots of business opportunities and creative talents.
Exchange4media, Gauravonomics, Pramit J. Nathan, Amit Agarwal, Kiruba Shankar and there are many Social Media Leaders who should come up together to help young Indian social media talents and organize something called East By South Asia or EXSA Interactive.
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