Here’s a quick summary of our two days at 140conf in New York City… in photos:
Take your pick!
Bob Rosenschein and Jeff Pulver.
What are you wondering about?
Nothing makes 140conf like an MC Hammer sighting.
Here with our favorite freestyler, Kosha Dillz.
Can I get a “Helloooo Austin, Texas!”
Our very own Shaya (@pickleshy) is running around SXSW Interactive with tons of Answers.com gear to giveaway. If you’ve been answering @Answersdotcom‘s tweets and getting prizes for it, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t been – well, only 2.5 days left!
Shaya reported a bit on what she’s seeing and hearing at SXSW and here are a few snapshots to piece together… Oh, and the following statement that Shaya will have to explain at some point:
“Crowdsurfing sheep, flame-throwing buses, robots that play music, random random random (and ppl who call it stochasticity). Nearly saw a terrible rehashing of the super bowl Janet Jackson event during a slightly slutty soul sistas karaoke performance.”
Bag o’ giveaways in transit to Austin, Texas.
Getting the interactive on.
Lego A-burst!
Moose dude.
Answers.com sticker pole dance.
Sticker makes its mark.
The one and only Shaya!
Stay tuned for more tales from Texas later this week…
As folks from across the globe (!) gear up to arrive in Austin, Texas, this week for South by Southwest, Answers.com is packing its bags with goodies to give out during the SXSW Interactive conference, from March 12-16.
If you’re going to be attending the event, make sure to follow Answersdotcom on Twitter. When questions about SXSW are tweeted, reply to Answersdotcom with your answers and win a prize! You’ll get prize-pick up instructions and walk away the proud of owner of an Answers.com… well, why ruin the surprise?
Read more about what Answers.com is giving away at SXSW this year.
Answers.com’s very own Shaya will be at SXSW Interactive too, so make sure to say hi. You can follow her at Pickleshy and get her perspective on the conference, too.
Answers.com’s Bob Rosenschein is in Munich attending DLD this week, and there is nothing like a Digital, Life, Design conference to get us inspired.
A few such inspired moments were captured on digital film and are shared below.
First, ‘Disruptive,’ a panel with guests all involved in disruptive technologies that changed their respective industries.
This panel was moderated by Yossi Vardi, the father of Israeli high-tech and an angel investor inAnswers.com. The speakers included Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, and Mitchell Baker, founder of Mozilla.
Another noteworthy moment was when Mitchell Baker received the Aenne Burda award for outstanding female entrepreneur from last year’s winner, Esther Dyson.
Bob sat with Sharona Justman, who runs the annual Israel Conference in Los Angeles.
A quick chat between sessions… Hey, Bob, are you using Mobile Answers?
Answers.com is sponsoring LeWeb Paris ’09 as well as attending the French conference today and tomorrow, launching its new international versions to the European audience.
“Our English-language sites reached an audience of 56 million in the U.S. in October, according to comScore, ranking us #15; we reached a total audience of 84 million worldwide, ranking #28,” said Bob Rosenschein, Answers.com CEO. “Support for these versions is just the beginning of our support for the multilingual community.” (press release)
Are you multilingual? You can join an Answers.com Q&A community in one of the following global flavors:
Day 2 of the Answers Summit featured two workshops, a panel on answer quality, an Orange Guy competition and an awards ceremony.
How do you capture all that activity in a summary? Maybe you don’t even try… But these photos from Pickleshy, Eliesheva and YourMom1108 can begin to describe the excitement, the inspiration and the fun we had at today’s events.
The rest of this week we will feature more highlights from the Summit… Meanwhile, check out the photos being posted at the Answers.com Ning fan site.
A panel on answers quality.
Sameer from the Cyberbullying Research Center.
Listen up!
A Knowledge Ninja in the ‘flesh.’
Real-time collaboration!
Even more real-time collaboration!
A wall of interpretations.
JonDov and Brave3 have a laugh.
Farmer and his orange matter…
Orange Guys come alive.
Everyone’s a winner when it comes to Orange.
Catch the videos from Answers Summit as they come in… Subscribe to Answers.com’s YouTube channel.
Here are a few of the highlights: Adam’s fashion statement, Bob’s keynote, and… Bruce’s song.
