Graduation is quickly approaching and the hunt for jobs for college students is on. Jocelyn Lai teamed up with Working Not Working’s Justin Gignac at this year’s SXSW to discuss using your online network to get a job in real life. Let’s be honest, this is great advice whether you are graduating college or if Read More...

Two weeks ago, GSD&M hosted the third annual Industry Party during SXSW. For those of you who were there, you can vouch for us when we say it was a rocking fun time. Our partygoers were treated to a night of good food & drinks and plenty of quality music – all in true GSD&M Read More...

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It’s still January and by my clock we’re still 42 days away from the first SXSW session and yet, I already have reminders about events and invitations. They started arriving this week. I’m not sure what it is about the six-and-a-half week mark that makes organizations start sending out their invites, but it happened. What’s Read More...

Before SXSW 2012 is over, the planning for 2013 begins. When you have a festival as massive and ever-growing as SXSW, there is no other way to prepare for it than to never stop partying planning. It’s no secret, we are SXSW junkies over here at GSD&M. Last year, we launched SXSurvival.com and had our Read More...

Some background for those that think “Single Sign On” (or SSO) sounds like a new dating site – SSO is the option to sign into a website using an existing account on another site (eg: facebook/twitter/google+), which to the user ends up looking like “OMG MAGIC! I suddenly have a new account on this site Read More...

Regardless of what it may sound like, if you are a fan of good food as I am, you will know what “Food Porn” refers to. The no reservations style of Bourdain presenting the delicatessen found in common underground type places in different cities around the world has now embraced social media to augment its Read More...

One of the SXSWi lectures that I attended was called 11 Reasons that QR Codes Suck. I won’t list all 11 reasons here. It’s sufficient to say that the major theme of this talk was trying to figure out why QR codes haven’t caught on quite as much as some had hoped. The speaker admitted Read More...

Last year I met a young lad on a first date. After talking a while at dinner, he asked me, “Why do you call yourself a nerd? You don’t look like one. Prove it.” So I listed all the captains of Star Trek and various characters of Star Wars; described my love of computer programming, Read More...

By Bill Bayne I’m from Memphis, Tennessee. I would imagine that 99% of you that know me are aware of this fact. And as someone who loves creativity and music, I can honestly say it’s one of the best places in the world to hail from: Elvis, Al Green, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Cash, I could Read More...