{"id":4223,"date":"2010-03-08T11:20:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/03\/08\/austintech002\/"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:20:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:20:58","slug":"austintech002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2010\/03\/08\/austintech002\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook in Austin, SXSW Booze &amp; Chow, TabbedOut, BazaarVoice &#8211; Austin Tech Scene #02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cote\/4409143496\/\" title=\"Kill Your Bugs! by cote, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2690\/4409143496_e4c72545b5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" alt=\"Kill Your Bugs!\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonwhichard.com\/\">Brandon<\/a> and I sit down at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogandduckpub.com\/\">The Dog and Duck Pub<\/a> to test out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabbedout.com\/\">TabbedOut<\/a> while we discuss the past week&#8217;s news about the Austin tech scene &#8211; Facebook may be opening offices in Austin, places to eat and drink during SXSE, and a few other items.<\/p>\n<p>Download the episode directly <a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/redmonk\/austintech002.mp3\">right here<\/a>, subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/AustinTechScene\">the feed<\/a> in iTunes or other podcatcher to have episodes downloaded automatically, or just click play below to listen to it right here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"embed\">\n<h2>Show Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We open up testing out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabbedout.com\/\">TabbedOut<\/a>, the Austin based app that lets you pay your bar (and restaurant) tab with your iPhone. It works well at first, but closing the tab gets weird.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/stories\/2010\/02\/22\/daily44.html\">Facebook may open an office in Austin<\/a> &#8211; the government seems to think so. Brandon and I discuss if this is a good thing or bad thing. We also talk about officing downtown vs. the &#8220;business park&#8221; part of Austin.<\/li>\n<li>With SXSW starting at the end of this week, Brandon and I got over good spots around town to get booze and food. We talk through options on the west side of downtown all the way over to the now hot-n-trendy east side.<\/li>\n<li>While we&#8217;re not big experts on the gaming scene in Austin, there were a few interesting news items: AV helping ex-MySpace people start up an effort, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/theticker\/entries\/2010\/03\/03\/austin_ventures_teaming_with_m.html\">buying MindJolt in SF<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/stories\/2010\/03\/01\/daily38.html\">ABJ coverage<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/austin\/stories\/2010\/02\/22\/daily43.html\">Big Six acquired by hi5<\/a>. Legacy of gaming &#8211; MMP stuff &#8211; etc.<\/li>\n<li>I ask Brandon to tell me what he thinks about BazzarVoice, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinstartup.com\/2010\/03\/bazaarvoice-hits-100-billion-mark\/\">announced they now have 100 billion reviews and other &#8220;user generated&#8221; content<\/a>. While I was skeptical of the business idea several years ago, clearly it&#8217;s genius. In fact when I found myself reading reviews of tires over at Discount Tires&#8217; website this week I realized, &#8220;<em>of course<\/em>, brilliant!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon and I sit down at The Dog and Duck Pub to test out TabbedOut while we discuss the past week&#8217;s news about the Austin tech scene &#8211; Facebook may be opening offices in Austin, places to eat and drink during SXSE, and a few other items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[387,748],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austintech","tag-iphone","tag-sxsw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}