SXSW: Steven Johnson Unveils Outside.in Newsfeed

Posted by Sebastien on the 2008/03/09 at 09:53
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Yesterday afternoon at SXSW08, Steven Johnson, Outside.in’s CEO, was interviewing the brilliant Henry Jenkins, Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. I’ll come back to Jenkins’ insights in a later blog post.

Johnson, while talking about hyperlocal, collective intelligence and communities, unveiled a screenshot of a soon-to-be released feature of Outside.in called “On My Radar”. According to the sneak peek page, “On My Radar lets you zoom down and see all the current buzz on the b