SCHED SXSW 2013

Presenting our best guide ever to plan your SXSW experience:...

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:36:00 -0500

Presenting our best guide ever to plan your SXSW experience: austin2012.sched.org →

Every single interactive+film+music+party+band going on during SXSWeek. Create your own schedule, see your Facebook/Twitter friends schedules, and automatically sync all your Eventbrite RSVPs to your schedule.

This is a passion project brought to you by Sasa Mataic, Nedra Mataic, Keaton Kustler, Al Kirby, Ben Westermann-Clark, Daniel Aionkijer, Ljubo Čanić, Marvin McTaw and myself. Completely and always free to you, all we ask is that you share with a friend!

The 5th Annual Unofficial SXSW Schedule

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:21:08 -0500

The 5th Annual Unofficial SXSW Schedule:

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Epic High Five

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:27:39 -0400

Taylor & Leonard

Wrist By South West

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:26:39 -0400

Wrist By South West

My favorite parties at SXSW 2011 PureVolume House (also where...

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:26:11 -0400

My favorite parties at SXSW 2011

PureVolume House (also where we threw The Hype Machine party)
Josh, Brittany, Dave, Mitchell and the rest of the Purevolume/Buzzmedia crew consistently throw the most reliably awesome experience during SXSW. The drinks flow freely and the quality of the bands mean you can see everything you need to just by staying put. So pro.

CNN Grill
CNN bought out Max’s Wine Dive for a week, completely rebranded it as only CNN (what party do you ever remember only having ONE sponsor?) and brought in Danny Meyer’s team from NYC to create a killer, all-free menu. This was a twice a day stop for us to refuel and relax. (read more on CNN’s press blog)

508 House sponsored by Virgin Mobile
One of my favorite getaways because it’s rarely packed during the early evening. It’s literally a house turned venue and they have floor-beds in one of the rooms, perfect to escape for a bit and a killer DJ setup in the other. I saw The Knocks DJ here and a 16 piece marching band all in the same hour.

Rachel Ray’s Green House
A bit of a hike to the east side but a gorgeous garden-y space at the old Big Red Sun. Plenty of places to lounge and enjoy bands all day. Why aren’t there parties here during interactive?

#GetSauced Pool Party & BBQ sponsored by Conduit
Felt a little too like Miami but I still loved it. Gorgeous roof deck pool on top of the Ashton apartments and a great crowd of people.

XO Cafe Noir sponsored by Patron
Wins most creative experience. You had to meet at a non descript coffee truck on 4th and Brazos to pick up your wristband, an iced coffee and a mini flashlight with the patron logo visible, batman style. The coffee sleeve had the address of the party, a few blocks away, printed on it. Inside the space there were delicious cocktails and a magazine style photoshoot in the middle of the party (picture above).

SXSW Mobile Map Beta Test

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:28:00 -0400

(Guest post by lhl)

Hey SCHEDxSWers. SXSWm is in full swing, so it’s a bit of a crazy time to push out new features, but what the hell, right? In that spirit, here’s a new feature I’ve been working on that has been super-useful for helping me navigate around.

Simply put it’s a map layer that includes your SCHED as well as every other event that’s happening over the next few hours. But wait, there’s more! Since we have a few thousand people making SCHED’s this year (yeah!), we actually have some decent data on how relatively busy any specific show is going to be. When you click in, that’s represented by the length of the red bars (with longest being most busy).

I’ll be trying to add a couple more features, over the next couple days, but I think it’s pretty useful as is and we’d love to hear your feedback as we whip this into shape.

Here are directions on how to get this working on Android phone.

This is the map URL, replace ‘lhl’ with your username:

http://atx.sched.org/lhl/map

On Android, all you have to do is type this in the Google Maps App’s Search Bar. Make sure you type the whole URL with 'http’ and it should give you your map in the screenshots.

Things are a bit trickier with the iPohne, but should give you a similar result if you do it right. First, go to http://maps.google.com/ in Mobile Safari and type in the Google Maps Search Bar. If you use Google Maps in Mobile Safari (web) you’ll see all the cool details, but if not, it just drops a bunch of red pins without descriptions which is not so useful. On iPhone, there’s a free app called My Maps Editor that you can use (it’s great, but you need to click in preferences to make it refresh), and on both Android and iPhone, loading your map URL in Google Earth also works.

Let us know how it works for you (though it’s fresh untested code with sharp edges, so it might not!) and feel free to send bug reports to lhl@sched. If none of the directions make sense, don’t worry, we’ll push it into the main mobile site as it gets more baked soon, but I wanted to at least get it out there, since like I mentioned, it’s been awful convenient.

Hoodie Yellow

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:24:35 -0500

Hoodie Yellow

Whole Funs

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:24:17 -0500

Whole Funs

Kienan from Siliconhills.tv came over to SCHED* HQ a few days...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:02:37 -0500

Kienan from Siliconhills.tv came over to SCHED* HQ a few days ago and recorded this ridiculous interview :)

Ice Cream Man!!! 100% free ice cream for all 10 days of SXSW and...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:13:00 -0500

Ice Cream Man!!!

100% free ice cream for all 10 days of SXSW and you can grab one of our free party maps too!

We’re handing out 15,000 hand made party maps during SXSW....

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:12:14 -0500

We’re handing out 15,000 hand made party maps during SXSW. Over 100 official and unofficial venues marked in downtown Austin with over 50 hand picked parties to get you started.

It’s not play time yet

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:11:05 -0500

It’s not play time yet

Meet the folks behind SCHED* interview by awesome TX State...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:14:57 -0500

Meet the folks behind SCHED* interview by awesome TX State student Nicole Martinez

Photo

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:14:45 -0500

Keaton, now with extra meat

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:14:05 -0500

Keaton, now with extra meat

We love the food trucks of Austin. Pitcured: The Vegan Yacht

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:13:48 -0500

We love the food trucks of Austin. Pitcured: The Vegan Yacht

We’re all completely in love with the SCHED* House, but...

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:43:42 -0500

We’re all completely in love with the SCHED* House, but unfortunately the day before I rented it back in November somebody scooped up Monday through Thursday this week. So tomorrow we move out for 4 days and then back in. Crazy, but it’s all part of the adventure!

I should find a place for us to live tomorrow…

Check out my new SCHED* 2011 iPhone skin, courtesy of Music...

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:06:14 -0500

Check out my new SCHED* 2011 iPhone skin, courtesy of Music Skins. If youre coming down to Austin this year and have an iPhone, make sure to find someone from SCHED* to hook it up with one of these babies.

Favicards are the new Moo cards.

Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:05:34 -0500

Favicards are the new Moo cards.

View your personal schedule, browse what’s happening right now...

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:41:26 -0500

View your personal schedule, browse what’s happening right now or search for what you want right from your Macbook’s menubar!

Step 1: Download SCHED* Menubar App (4mb zip)
Step 2: Launch app and choose “Convert to MenuExtra SSB”