SXSW Preparedness Kit

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A.    A golden ticket to all the knowledge in the world, and thus, ruling it!

B.   Go Go Juice

C.   Name identier (Hi, this me and the gang I’m in)

D.    Hotel key (Dear hotel, please next time put the room number on it so when it’s 3 in the GD morning I know where I’m going)

E.    One of 10K useless QR-Code thingies (that didn’t link to anything good)

F.    Sci-Fi thumb drive (instant geek street cred)

G.   Hipster-collegiate smokes (which made me look and smell stupid)

H.   Rag for cleaning my hipster glasses

I.      Lifeblood (Please Apple make a battery that lasts even longer)

J.     Analogue writing utensil (didn’t use these at all)

How's your mobile app going?

So I did a quick poll of 20 random people here at SXSW last night and today.

I asked, "How is your app going?"

7 out of 10 responded, "It's going awesome!" and they proceeded to explain the intricate details of their app. (they were all lacking in elevator pitch skills, btw there's a panel on that today).

Keep in mind, I had no idea if these random people had an mobile app or not. It seems if you don't have your own app these days, then maybe your not quite on the cutting edge. And lately, ad creatives have been getting more credit for their side-project apps, than the apps they are making for their clients. Which the more I think about it, it's awesome. It's people just making stuff to make stuff.

Like this app. It's a side project, but could be altered and modified and just really cool for some client:

http://bit.ly/i5KKZL

So, get that Objective C coder friend. Buy him/her something they like, like maybe an XBOX, or a boyfriend/girlfriend. And go make that app! Don't delay!

props to www.peterskitchen.net for the image