Download Squad at SXSW

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Download Squad at SXSW

by Grant Robertson Mar 5th 2008

Officially it's "five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties", unofficially it's the biggest event of the software geek calendar. SXSW Interactive starts Friday in Austin, Texas and we'll be hitting the ground tomorrow like some sort of invading army.

We've already managed to book plenty of interviews with tech luminaries, and we're sure to stumble across more. We'll also be doing some live blogging, taking lots of photos and video, and posting to Twitter.

Keep checking Download Squad for all the SXSW happenings, or if you're more of a river of news kind of person, we've got this SXSW 2008 RSS feed you can use to make sure you don't miss a thing.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

clay said 10:42AM on 3-05-2008

how about a dowloadsquad meetup in austin? i am a huge fan, it would be cool to meet the squad and other fans as well. there is nothing like some cold shiner, good music, and bad ass austin tx!

Grant Robertson said 12:01PM on 3-05-2008

Clay : Awesome idea. Thanks to you, we're planning just such a thing. Stay tuned for details.

If you're interested in the DLS SXSW Meetup, comment here and we'll make sure we let you know where and when to show up!

Grant Robertson said 3:38PM on 3-05-2008

Hans: Christina Warren and I will be there, along with our producer and occasional poster Victor Agreda Jr. We'll look for you!

kingkool68 said 3:47PM on 3-05-2008

Subscribed though I won't be at SXSW!

Hans said 6:27PM on 3-05-2008

I will be working registrations every morning. I look forward to seeing lots of DLS people.

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