Monday, April 11, 2011

The Harsh Reality About User-Gen Content: There Isn't Enough To Go Around

Kevin Smokler is the co-founder/CEO of BookTour.com, an Amazon-funded startup which offers affordable software tools for authors. He is based in San Francisco, and can be found on on Twitter at @weegee.

There?s a ton of cleanup to do after coming home from a conference?laundry, follow-up emails, business-card filing and dropping swag off at the nearby Goodwill. But following SXSW Interactive 2011, I had a new receptacle to empty and set neat: my smartphone.

Since both Twitter and Foursquare hit their first inflection points at SXSWi (in 2007 and 2009 respectively), location-based app companies have sought to repeat the feat in Austin each spring. And even though I?ll try anything when drunk on new ideas, conference camaraderie and breakfast tacos, using a half-dozen apps to say, ?I?m at Mustang Sally?s-Coffee-Barge? doesn?t make much sense after you get home, when you don?t have to coordinate meeting 12 friends and colleagues in that many hours.

Source: http://feeds.paidcontent.org/~r/pcorg/~3/Jw1Q-WX77d4/

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