Twitter and Facebook might not have a lot in common at first glance, but if there´s talk about something, either one or both are likely to buzz with activity. The SXSW´s tech conference shows this yet again. The monstrous interview with Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg was the talk of the town on Twitter. The next day a true witch hunt broke out for the video footage. Which finally appeared on a Facebook blog.
Next of the most Twittered about issues related to this conference was way more interesting; Sched.org is an AJAX application that two programmers quickly pulled together right before the conference. It´s already said to be the Twitter of 2008, whatever that means. You can check out the Sched.org application for the SXSW conference here and be as impressed with it as Wired.com was. Great thing about the tool is that it gives you a way more real time idea of what’s hot at a conference because as people plant their personal schedules, they are able to see the attendee numbers of the various workshops too. Hot hot hot! It’s very likely that conferences you attend in future are all running their info sheets on Sched.org.
With all the improvements comes the question of privacy; those not there have unprecedented amounts of access to what´s going. That´s mostly due to Twitter and other real time info. The video of the storm in a teacup (realtime just don’t eliminate real distances just yet, hence the euphemism) interview with Zuckerberg was a sought after item the entire Sunday that followed. Goes to show that when people get the idea they are hot on the tracks of something, the pursuit that follows is relentless most of all.