SXSW Links ‘Round The Web

The big SXSW interactive festival starts on Friday and this will be my third year in attendance. I look forward to meeting as many CN readers as I can and I have fresh CN stickers for all. I will post the location of where I am so you can pick up the stickers on the left side of the CN site throughout the day. I will have my video camera and tripod so get ready for some interviews and product demos.

Here are a few things to remember if this is your first time to Austin:

• you won’t be able to do everything you think you will – it’s ok, just enjoy what you actually do
• it’s not "southby" – do not call it this, thank you
• bring good walking shoes – for some reason the event is split up in what seems like walking a mile in each direction back and forth all day
• don’t look down all day typing some tweet – look ahead and all around and find people to talk to – at least 75% of the power of SXSW is actually meeting people and talking, not wasting your time on twitter

Other resources to check out before arriving:

• b5media CEO Jeremy Wright has put together a number of guides for the first-timer.
• Friendfeed has setup a room which aggregates most of the official and unofficial sxsw feeds and aggregators including twitter search – frankly if you are a Friendfeed user, this is the only thing you need.

If you have other suggested resources, please leave them in the comments and I will add them to the post. See ya’all on Friday!