Leo Laporte was in Austin, Texas this past weekend attending SXSWi (South By Southwest Interactive) and brings a guest-packed show from a live panel he had at the event. Since there are so many people on the show, several different panels were discussed as well as a ton of different news stories.
Since SXSW is one of the biggest social media events of the year, it seems appropriate that social media topics dominate the first half of the show. Dana Boyd’s keynote raised a lot of eyebrows when she suggested that privacy isn’t necessarily the big problem in many social websites, rather it’s the amount of control that a user has over their private information. Many of the TWiT panelists are quick to agree, pointing to the recent Google Buzz controversy and how it could have been better handled if Google realized the private nature of Gmail.
In other big SXSW news, AT&T managed to keep their network afloat despite the keen eye of many attendees who suffered poor coverage at previous years’ events. The show closes out with the news of a Twitter hoax perpetrated by NSFW’s Brian Brushwood, who managed to convince hundreds of NSFW panel attendees to tweet that Conan O’Brien joined Revision3. Using the hashtag #OMGConan, Brushwood actually earned a Universal World Record for Most Tweeted Hoax.
This Week in Tech comes to you live from South By Southwest in Austin Texas.
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