The geeks descended on Austin, Texas in droves for the 2011 South by Southwest interactive festival this week where an estimated 15,000 attendees laden with the latest technology gadgets and big ideas congregated for one of the world’s largest tech meetups. With hundreds of sessions ranging from, “How Not to be a Douchebag at South by Southwest,” to “Match.com and Foursquare Sitting in a Tree,” the crowds got their fill from influencers such as Google’s Marissa Mayer, content strategist David Meerman Scott and media maven Tim O’Reilly.
In between parties sponsored by Chevrolet, Razorfish, HP, ebay and dozens of others, the tech-set lined up at Starbucks, mobbed the massive gaming hall and descended on Apple’s surprise pop-up store to buy the iPad 2.
