{"id":421530,"date":"2010-03-12T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/article\/q110-sxsw-2010-austin-thunderdome\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T15:36:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:36:32","slug":"sxsw-2010-austin-is-now-the-thunderdome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/421530","title":{"rendered":"SxSW 2010: Austin is now the Thunderdome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.gearlive.com\/blogimages\/thunderdome.jpg\" alt=\"Thunderdome\" class=\"border\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px;\" width=\"474\" height=\"371\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The rumor at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/sxsw\" rel=\"tag\">SXSW<\/a> is that attendance for Interactive badges is up by 40% from last year, which is pretty amazing when you consider that the 2009 attendance was 10,741. So the amount of people decending on Austin, TX to see the next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/gearlive\">Twitter<\/a> or Foursquare make an appearance is around 15,000. It&#8217;s crazy to think that Foursquare just debuted last year and now it is the most talked about product so far at this year&#8217;s event (granted, things are just getting started.) Speaking of Foursquare, we&#8217;ll be covering their SXSW news, as well as that of what we consider to be their main competitor, Gowalla, in the next few days.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.gearlive.com\/blogimages\/sxsw-2010-registration.jpg\" alt=\"SXSW 2010 badges\" class=\"border\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px;\" width=\"575\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It also looks like some of the big names we&#8217;ve seen in the past are back in 2010 to take part in the festivities. I saw that Pepsi, Microsoft and Aol were still building their booths this morning.<\/p>\n<p><i>Braden Young is covering SxSW 2010 for Gear Live. You can follow him on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bradeny\">@bradeny<\/a>. Hit him with a tweet if there are any events or sessions you&#8217;d like him to hit up and cover!<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/austin+texas\" rel=\"tag\">austin texas<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/foursquare\" rel=\"tag\">foursquare<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/gowalla\" rel=\"tag\">gowalla<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/sxsw\" rel=\"tag\">sxsw<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/sxsw+2010\" rel=\"tag\">sxsw 2010<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/sxsw+interactive\" rel=\"tag\">sxsw interactive<\/a>,<br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/tag\/sxswi\" rel=\"tag\">sxswi<\/a>,\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#FFCC66; padding:5px; margin-top:5px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/news\/article\/q110-sxsw-2010-austin-thunderdome\/\" title=\"SxSW 2010: Austin is now the Thunderdome\">SxSW 2010: Austin is now the Thunderdome<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gearlive.com\/\" title=\"Gear Live\">Gear Live<\/a> on Fri, March 12, 2010 &#8211; 12:36:32\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IVProLJb_cnurKEYdlPVdUdPHHE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IVProLJb_cnurKEYdlPVdUdPHHE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IVProLJb_cnurKEYdlPVdUdPHHE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/IVProLJb_cnurKEYdlPVdUdPHHE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gearlive.com\/~ff\/rss_2?a=BAdY2a9yUr4:Y1-RpRmy9nE:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rss_2?i=BAdY2a9yUr4:Y1-RpRmy9nE:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gearlive.com\/~ff\/rss_2?a=BAdY2a9yUr4:Y1-RpRmy9nE:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/rss_2?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/rss_2\/~4\/BAdY2a9yUr4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumor at SXSW is that attendance for Interactive badges is up by 40% from last year, which is pretty amazing when you consider that the 2009 attendance was 10,741. So the amount of people decending on Austin, TX to see the next Twitter or Foursquare make an appearance is around 15,000. It&#8217;s crazy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5521,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}