This weekend, Manpreet, Rajesh, and Aman (our president, head of development, and head of products respectively) will be headed out to the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. With all the music, food, and new technology that’s going to be presented there, you might think the rest of us here at the TalkLocal team would be jealous, but that’s TOTALLY not the case. In fact, we’ve come up with a list of things we’re completely not jealous at all about missing at SXSW.
The concert lineup
With Snoop Dogg as the keynote speaker on Friday, the signs of a good music lineup are looking pretty good, but that’s really not anything we’re interested in at all. It seems like SXSW is getting a broad range of acts from all around the world with American acts like NY rapper Black Milk, the UK post-punk band Pop Group, and Australian psych-pop group The Church to name a few. Raj and Manpreet claim the weekend will be “all work” but there’s doubt in the office that they won’t sneak off to at least one of the awesome concerts happening this weekend. We’re not salty at all though.
The film festival
On the cinematic side of things is the SXSW film festival which showcases a lot of new films by many known and unknown directors. Some films we totally don’t care about missing are Ryan Gosling’s writing/directing debut in “Lost River”, Alex Gibney’s documentary on Steve Jobs and Hannah Fidel’s drama “6 Years”. The idea that so many films with talented names attached to them are going to be available for viewing doesn’t phase us at all; we’re completely fine with waiting until they’re available to the general public.
The technology on display
The thing we’re glad we’re missing the most is the interactive technology festival. The showroom floors will be full of tech shown by entrepreneurs from all over the world. Innovative apps, programs and products will be on display that aren’t even available to the general public yet. Manpreet and Raj will be demoing our new app at the WeDC panel and meeting up with old and new friends of ours in the tech industry. Getting our foot in the door in Austin, networking with other entrepreneurs, seeing all the new and groundbreaking technology on display, why would we want anything to do with that?
Aw, who are we kidding?! We all wish we were there this weekend! While we’re working away connecting our customers with the best pros in real-time, Manpreet and Raj are going to be experiencing all the art, culture and technology while showing our app off to the press and our peers at the interactive media festival. If you’re one of those lucky enough to be going, stop by the WeDC panel and check out our app and what we do here at TalkLocal!
