The big story from SXSW Interactive this year is the keynote session, which was an interview of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg by BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy. The reporter became the news. The ballroom was packed, and I watched on a big screen in a separate room. As I listened to the interview, it seemed that the questions were a little bit odd, and they weren’t really getting to the types of issues that I think [...]

I had a chance to meet some great guys from Canada at SXSW, the team from BitStrips. They launched their website at SXSW yesterday. They describe it as YouTube for comics. The site allows you to create and re-use comic characters in comic strips that you can build, even though you may have no creative talent. To demonstrate how quickly and easily you can create your own bitstrips, the team created a comic about Sarah [...]

We know that you get the feed from AustinStartup because you enjoy the kind of hard-hitting journalism you can only find here. That’s why we have the scoop on The Ninja from www.askaninja.com making an appearance (video here) at the SXSW 11th Annual Web Awards. The folks from interactive agency EVB in San Francisco won an award in the Amusement category for elfyourself.com, but they weren’t present to accept their award. The back door flew [...]