Austin

1601 E. 5th St. #109

Austin, Texas 78702

United States

Coimbatore

Module 002/1, Ground Floor, Tidel Park

Elcosez, Aerodrome Post

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641014 India

Coonoor

138G Grays Hill

Opp. BSNL GM Office, Sims Park

Coonoor, Tamil Nadu 643101 India

Laguna

Block 7, Lot 5,

Camella Homes Bermuda,

Phase 2B, Brgy. Banlic,

City of Cabuyao, Laguna,

Philippines

San Jose

Escazu Village

Calle 118B, San Rafael

San Jose, SJ 10203

Costa Rica

News & Insights

News & Insights

Cowboys and Indians

On the eve of SXSW, Information Evolution’s U.S.-based team gathered at our Austin office for an informal meetup and photo. Pictured are, from left to right, Chuck Greene, Beatty Wilson, Matt Manning, Scott Smith, Deborah Dunlap, Shyamali Ghosh, and Kevin Dodds, the tough but non-adversarial cowpokes to our gracious and more numerous Indian team.

It was our last meeting before SXSW 2012. Some of us spent nine days holed up at the office, commuting on back roads to avoid the excruciating traffic. Others took every free minute to go out and see the fun. I myself attended the Interactive Show, and spent five solidly packed days hearing the latest on big data (see my previous post) and the semantic web, as well as getting different points of view on less technical topics such as how patterns and motifs should be and essential part of every marketing effort, how to handle potential PR nightmares, and even how to perfect an elevator pitch. SXSW been described in many ways over the years, but an analogy to the old wild west is not off-target. SXSW brings a gold rush-style boomtown to Austin for this week every year (this is where Twitter was launched after all) and increasingly the cutting edge technology firms on the digital frontier have the potential to make fortunes by mining the large amounts of data they collect. To monetize their data “ore,” however, they often need a “processor” or “refiner” to distill their raw materials into something marketable. That’s where IEI’s cowboys and Indians can ride to the rescue.

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