Yesterday I took off in my swim trunks, a t shirt and a pair of crocs and waded and swam along a long, cool spring fed creek at AustinSpring.com and found this amazing formation as I waded through the creek. The day was humid and hot. The water was cool and crystal clear. It was like I had entered paradise. I kept coming across these stunning formations. How lucky am I to live in a place like this?

What a great day! I went on a phenomenal hike, I sorted out my SXSW bags from 2003 till 2016. And I went to the Haley Dais Cafe in Cedar Creek.

Doorway to the +Urban Co-Lab for the meetup.

Our patio table got blown in the pool last night by the big storm. So I had to dive in and bring it out. Not easy. 

+Katrina Tolentino or Kat as I know her is awesome. At +Urban Co-Lab

Inspired by the results from our Discover Impact event during SXSW last month, 121Giving, Austin+SocialGood and YOUvolution are partnering together to host the first in a series of events we’re calling Spark Impact: http://bit.ly/sparkimpact – This series is focused on empowering collaboration and innovation in Austin.

Please join us on April 26th from 6-9pm at Urban Co-Lab as we host interactive roundtable discussions with innovative leaders and local Austin change makers. Their work is focused on closing gaps in the categories of Education, Sustainable Communities, Food Access, Clean Water and Industry Innovation.

One winning concept that bubbles up from this series will be brought to fruition and presented at the ATX Plus Social Good Summit during Austin Startup Week. We hope you’ll join us, whether you bring ideas, passion, experience or want to collaborate to help build new solutions, all are welcome.

Zero Hunger:
Sam Hellman Mass – Odd Duck
Curt Nelson – Austin Foodshed Investors
Paige Oliverio – Urban Patchwork
Felicia Pena – Capital Area Food Bank
Sustainable Communities:
Dawn Ashley – City of Austin Neighborhood Housing
Heidi Sloan – Community First
Education:
Erin Cargile – KXAN
Shobie Partos – Creative Action
Michael Henderson – Doing Development
Antonio Delgado – Science in a Suitcase
Industry Innovation:
Angela Hanson – City of Austin Innovation Office
Danny Lucio – Austin FreeNet
Lonny Stern – Capital Metro
Clean Water:
Jeff “Da Shade” Moonbeam – Cry Havoc Action
Jessica Wilson – Watershed Protection Dept.


Spark Impact: Interactive Workshop

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016
6:00PM 8:00PM
URBAN CO-LAB
1818 EAST 12TH STREET AUSTIN, TX, 78702

+Rueben Cantu was a major force at the Urban Co-Lab Spark Impact Interactive Workshop. 

+Sean Meyer +Peppy Sean at our pool party and Games of Thrones Watch party last weekend. We had so much fun with him and his friends. He's an Austin coffee shop owner (Buzzmill) and organic farmer.

I went to HEB and stocked up on party food for our GOT showing party, saw a snake in the woods, and partied at the pool.

Pool season is in full gear and we had a party Sunday wrapped up with a "GOTwatch" or Game of Thrones Watching party on a big screen outdoors.

It's time of year, pool season is kicking in to gear.

It's that time of year again, time to stock up on stuff for the pool. 

Cedar Creek recent flood. The ants formed a floating cluster when their mound got flooded and the dogs played in the water. Floods always bring folks together and get them outside to marvel at a creek that becomes as big as the Colorado River.

Happy Birthday, you have some fine thoughts and an interesting path from materialistic, drinker/consumer to a more thoughtful vegan.  In many ways my path is the opposite from 20 years of being a relatively poor vegetarian living in a schoolbus to the present day, where I have a pretty decent real estate portfolio in booming Austin Texas, lots of computers and tech toys, drones, and renters who live around me who not only pay me regularly but give me great joy.  I am trying to build wealth without sacrificing my core values and without distancing myself from my clients and customers.  I don't know why but this strategy seems to be working.  Have a great day in PR!

And oh yeah, +Raul Colon don't give up on SXSW.  Let's plan to meet up next year at the #sxsw2017 and go to some parties, panels and events ok?

Downtown Bastrop – Zumba Classes are held here. It's not Gregory but it's close.

+Warren Baylor is a newby to Austin so I offered to buy him his first drink at the Craftsman Bar on Cesar Chavez in East Austin and then, after a little pranking incident at the bar, we went bar hopping. Warren went home too soon, he missed +Drink and Click™ Austin, Texas with some great people, and the teacher convention came by and treated us to some great cheese and crackers. 

Flight pattern of pelicans over our land.

Cows and seagulls – a symbiotic relationship. Picture from my rural hood.

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Combining virtual reality technology with the iconic, time-tested mega-fantasy of a threesome, we’ve broken through with a Naughty America original "2 Chicks Same Time" scene, starring Nikki Benz, Jaclyn Taylor and now, you!

Strap on your headset and enter virtual Naughty America where Nikki and Jaclyn are waiting to BLOW YOU AWAY. These scenes are compatible with:

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Oculus Rift
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Two years ago at Flowstorm 2014 in Cedar Creek, TX

Some folks around AustinSpring.com on Friday 4/8/16. Tany, Lexi, Dot, David, Paul (me), and Cindy.

TGIF! Tany shows up with her monster truck, David builds a storage shed, Lexi learns to swim and operate a drone, and I take Ellie Mae for a walk.

Tany and her dog Ellie Mae, a bloodhound that's always sniffing.

Building a little storage shed today.

Tany and her monster truck on our back road.

Find the "original King of Twitter" in this photo!

Jump Lexi jump!

painted fingernails.

Lexi's little mannie job.

A mom and her girl.

TStone!

"Tany" and "Ellie May"

A girl – +Tanesha Stone "Tany" and her dog drove her monster truck up from Galveston.

Lexi is unusually smart for her age. She showed she had no fear of water yesterday.

Tany is so stoked that her monster truck is running and she drove it all the way from Galveston!

Summer is coming to the GreenPlex at AustinSpring.com

I started swim lessons for Lexi yesterday, she's going to learn to swim this summer!

Cindy found this $100 refurbished mower at Home Depot today and she's giving it a trial spin!

Are you coming to Eeyores Birthday Party in Austin on April 30?  Here's the event page.

Numbers tell the story

Eeyore's birthday is coming soon.  11 am on April 30.

Eternal Boom!  A reading by Paul Terry Walhus

Sunday at AustinSpring.com with the reality tv show professionals, it's a wrap folks.

Buh bye Greta's Tiny Home! Good luck on your move to Austin!

Soooo smooooth . . .

Reality tv tiny home through the lens of the pro shooter who has the world's greatest gear!

Lunchtime on the set of the tiny home reality tv show shoot. I thought I'd show you a wider view of the set. This is some day going to be the sports field at AustinSpring.com where we can play football, ultimate frisbee, soccer, and baseball. For more on this vision, see austerra.net and the Chautauqua video, that's our vision of future that goes 100 years in to the past and 10 years in to the future.

To do a great reality show on tiny homes like these folks do you have to have right gear and the big shade screen they tote around is the boss. And they have all the great gear for light, sound and video. Great day of shooting at AustinSpring..com in Cedar Creek, Texas.

Lights! Camera! Action! Reality tv has come knockin' and we're enthralled to see this bunch of pros focus like a laser beam on producing a quality tv show in our little corner of the world.

Watch this video if you want to know what we I on April Fools Day 2016,  I hope you can contain your excitement! I love the month of April because it means we can swim again and lots of cool things are going on.  Cool things like the drama of HGTV Tiny Home Hunters coming to do a documentary, like the neighbors catching and barbecuing bass, like all the wildflowers and lush vegetation growing so fast you can watch it, and the wildlife that comes to life.  April cruelest month?  Nope, not buying it. 

The first time we saw the steampunk style tiny home was on an 18 wheeler that was stuck on the road to the AustinSpring.com kasita grohome tiny home village. A tree got tangled in the roof of the tiny home to the horror of the steampunk maven tiny home owner. So we called in a pro, David Streamer, who trims trees for Bluebonnet Electric and he took his chainsaw on a 20' pole and trimmed the tree with no harm to the tiny home.

After the harrowing turn in to our narrow gate the driver managed to navigate the tiny home to it's resting place, a beautiful meadow with wildflowers and a convenient nearby electric hookup. The driver had a long bed 18 wheeler which allowed him to tote along a full kennel of barking dogs which added to the surreal effect of this whole late night adventure.

The tiny steampunk home owner wasn't amused, however, at the shredded green plastic that had torn away from her roof deck floor and the deck itself was sticky to walk on. Ooops, not quite cured yet.

When reality tv comes calling you get to see how these shows are made and it's fascinating. The crew that HGTV sent out to us was focused like a laser beam on their project, a woman in search of a steampunk styled tiny home who lands in the Austin area.

If day one was an adventure getting the tiny home down our road, day 2 was a lesson in how the pros put together a reality tv show.

We have a rich assortment of locations for reality tv like our swimming pool, the pool house, the 5,000 sf AustinSpring Lodge with its 4 kitchens which contrasts sharply with a 240 sf steampunk home, our gorgeous hike and bike trail along Cedar Creek with it's wealth of wildlife (some of our residents decided to go fishing during the shoot and I marveled at one of the bass fish they were later prepping for the wood fired grill), our campfires, and barbecues.

But they chose the more spartan downstairs kitchen in favor of the upstairs kitchen with its higher cabinets and soaring vaulted ceiling and hand hewn cedar trim work. And they chose the folksy back stairs instead of the majestic creek because it told the story better. And they set up outdoors at the gateway to our hike and bike trail for the interview.

I learned a lot about how the pros do it and what goes on behind the scenes in reality tv. The day ended with the realization that we didn't have 220 volts for their tiny home to plug in to so we're off to Home Depot as soon as it opens up today to gather some parts.

Day three should even be more exciting as the production crew will focus on the tiny home itself. 

When reality tv comes calling you get to see how these shows are made and it's fascinating. The crew that HGTV sent out to us was focused like a laser beam on their project, a woman in search of a steampunk styled tiny home who lands in the Austin area.

If day one was an adventure getting the tiny home down our road, day 2 was a lesson in how the pros put together a reality tv show.

We have a rich assortment of locations for reality tv like our swimming pool, the pool house, the 5,000 sf AustinSpring Lodge with its 4 kitchens which contrasts sharply with a 240 sf steampunk home, our gorgeous hike and bike trail along Cedar Creek with it's wealth of wildlife (some of our residents decided to go fishing during the shoot and I marveled at one of the bass fish they were later prepping for the wood fired grill), our campfires, and barbecues.

But they chose the more spartan downstairs kitchen in favor of the upstairs kitchen with its higher cabinets and soaring vaulted ceiling and hand hewn cedar trim work. And they chose the folksy back stairs instead of the majestic creek because it told the story better. And they set up outdoors at the gateway to our hike and bike trail for the interview.

I learned a lot about how the pros do it and what goes on behind the scenes in reality tv. The day ended with the realization that we didn't have 220 volts for their tiny home to plug in to so we're off to Home Depot as soon as it opens up today to gather some parts.

Day three should even be more exciting as the production crew will focus on the tiny home itself.

Cutting trees to make way for HGTVs tiny home at AustinSpring.com late on April 1st.

Movie. HGTVs tiny home arrives at AustinSpring.com late at night through thunderstorms and we clear tree branches that are in the way. It was an adventure!

The driver hired by HGTV went through heavy storms in North Texas to get the tiny home they're using for a documentary to its destination at AustinSpring.com 's tiny home village. Then we had to trim some trees to get it down our road. We can't wait to see it in the day light!

The tiny house on wheels for the HGTV documentary arrived at AustinSpring.com on 4/1/16. We had to call in a professional tree trimmer to cut several branches out of the way along Shiloh Road. Greta was kind of stressed (the tiny house owner) but she was relieved that we got the job done. Tomorrow the Producer from HGTV will be here for interviews and a video shoot for the program Tiny House Hunters.

Two years ago today.

Two years ago today I met Taylor and Austin Burge and they moved in to the upstairs of the GreenPlex. Wonderful folks!

We got an entire tiny home in to a 26' uhaul truck and unloaded it here at AustinSpring.com / austerra.net and it's ready for assembly. It takes a 4 man crew 2 days to put together this home complete with appliances and cabinets. It's 400' but can grow to any size easily with snap together panels. 

+HGTVMagazine Hearst or more accurately HGTV is coming here to AustinSpring.com to do a story on tiny homes. This is the site where their tiny home will go at 6 pm today. Tune in on AustinHangout.com to see the arrival live streamed.

More adventures at SXSW 2016. VEVO is the leading all-premium music video and entertainment service. VEVO is available in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, which includes VEVO.com, Mobile Apps (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry PlayBook), Connected Television (Google TV, Boxee) and user embeddable video players. Additionally, through a special partnership with YouTube, VEVO is accessible in over 200 countries, expanding the platform’s reach around the globe. Through a distribution partnership, Vydia has made this premium service available to all of its clients for a yearly fee of $20.

Up and coming social media maven

The Austin area is the origin of man in the Americas!  This boggles the mind.  I mean, Austin is on a lot of top ten lists and all, but this is ridiculous.  

I want to go on a field trip to see this dig site.  These first human settlers of America got the Austin area 15,500 years ago which is about 2,000 years earlier than has been commonly thought.

The article says "Fed by permanent springs, this area between the Edwards Plateau and lower coastal plains would have offered ample game from both ecosystems, and its limestone held an abundant supply of flint-like rock, or chert, ideal for making Stone Age tools."

And further the article states "Prior to about 13,500 years ago, sheets of ice two miles thick covered nearly all of Canada, making a land route impassable."

"The most plausible solution is that the first Americans traveled a coastal route, using boats to come down the Alaskan and Canadian coasts, parts of which probably would have been free of ice."

So the Austin area is the origin of man in the Americas.  I'll just sit back now and let that sink in.

In 2007 at SXSW, the New York Times called me the King of Twitter and so did Slate and Buzzfeed.  Now Texas Monthly has put out an exhaustive and fascinating analysis of how this event changed everything and made Austin the tech marvel of the world.  No going back now!

It was, fittingly, a start-up that helped make Austin what it is today: Twitter, which came to SXSW in 2007. It had officially launched a few months earlier, but at SXSW the company unleashed a full-scale marketing blitz, setting up flat-screen TVs all over the convention center and signing up attendees. Soon they were tweeting about things like where to go for dinner, and before long, everyone was checking their smartphones to see what everyone else was doing. It was the beginning of a new age, and both the city and SXSW would never be the same. – See more at: http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/austin-and-the-city-of-the-eternal-boom/#sthash.B4FFDs3O.dpu

Flatstock at #sxsw 

+Conley Giles sizes up Ten-X as a promotional tool for his Grohome expandable tiny home project. #sxsw #grohome #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX

Followup to my last post on G+… here's where you get the free software to project video on to your floor like the koi fish. #lumo #pro-motion

Chasing virtual fish at SXSW Create. All you need is an LCD projector and the free software these folks give you. #sxsw #sxswcreate SXSW Create at Palmer Auditorium, Austin, TX

Part of the +Rob Hamlet extended family.

What goes on in here, stays in here. #sekrit

I won't say where this is, what this is, why this is or how I got there. It's a sekrit! Met some very great folks there and it's an awesome surprise in the middle of East Austin. That's all I can say.

Wilson (remember Wilson the volleyball who kept Tom Hanks company from "Castaway") has these big soft tennis balls that you can bat around with regular tennis rackets. Expands tennis to new settings. #sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX

This guy +Wesley Faulkner turned me to on to G+ at a bar on Sixth Street a few years ago. Now he's "Waldo" for namecheap at #ncsxsw and heading for bigger and better things all the time. Great guy!

Scottevest is a clothing company based in Ketchum, Idaho which specialises in garments with conduit systems and specialized pockets and compartments for holding mobile phones, tablet computers and other portable electronic devices, and managing and controlling their wires. Although marketed towards travellers, the company also caters to users in the military and law-enforcement who are required to carry multiple devices. #sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX

Telepathy Japan Inc. (CEO Kenichi Suzuki) released information about "Telepathy Walker," a wearable device mainly developed for mobile Augmented Reality gaming, at 2016 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show®), which is scheduled to run from January 6 to January 10, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

– "Telepathy Walker" ~ Playground, Every Wear ~

"Telepathy Walker" is a wearable device that enables users to enjoy Augmented Reality games indoors or outdoors. With Telepathy Walker, users can immerse themselves in mobile AR games with first-person point of view. The product enables mobile gaming experiences that users cannot enjoy with smartphones. Telepathy's original virtual display augments your vision even under bright sunshine. Walker's portable shell design allows you to see "Playground, Every Wear."

In February, "Telepathy Walker" will be available through crowdfunding sites for the customers in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. You can subscribe to our exclusive updates and special early-bird offers at Walker's website: http://www.telepathywalker.com/

Ecosystem surrounding "Telepathy Walker" is rapidly growing. Walker is of greater use with various attachment parts and external battery. Telepathy Walker will be the world's first SIM-free smart-glass that can connect to mobile networks globally, including the U.S. and Japan.

– Specifications of "Telepathy Walker"

Display resolution: 1/4 HD (960×540, equivalent to a smartphone screen from 20 inches)
Camera: 5 Mega Pixel, Auto-Focus
OS: Android 4.4
Connection: Wireless LAN / BT
Pre-installed applications include the following:
Application Market Place for application developers
Eye Connect and Talent Buzz, next-generation communication applications with first-person point of view
Entertainment and navigation applications
Delivery date: Early Summer 2016
Price: Approx. $700, more discounts for early-bird crowdfunding backers
For more information, please visit: http://www.telepathywalker.com/

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World's Smallest DJ setup! #sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX http://portable.dj

monom, a product innovation team at Hakuhodo Tokyo, has created its third independently developed product: a button-shaped speaker called "Pechat" that gives teddies everywhere the power to talk.

Pechat is a button-shaped speaker jointly developed by monom with HACKist, a digital creative lab of Hakuhodo DY Group company Hakuhodo i-studio. Attach Pechat to your child's favorite teddy, control it with the dedicated smartphone app, and the teddy really seems to talk. Pechat can be used in many different ways. Share secrets with your child. Sing songs together. Suggest she take a nap. Read him a story. This next-generation toy is a new communication tool for parents and kids and a fun parenting aid.
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Yantouch”, Ken Ouyang indicates that “Yan” is Yin-Yan. “Yan touch” means Sun’s touch. Touch by Sunrise and Sunset’s beauty (We continue improve smart light and more versatile sync, even go multi-device next), touch by Sun’s power, brightness. (We continue to improve on white light brightness). It matches with our 3-in-1 main themes of Natural wake and Smart light. Yantouch is no cheap China factory name, it has deep root of China culture and philosophy.

Yantouch has introduced Jelly Fish LED light and black/white diamond shaped Bluetooth speaker, one is the combination of fine art and technology while the other one is a perfect integration of light and music. These two innovative products soon broadcast Yantouch’s visibility and lay a successful battle for small and medium enterprise crossing from OEM to brand management. Yantouch also developed tons of innovative control technology and smart phone software related patents, such as Music you can see, Stereo reflection speaker, Speaker-specific equalization and Remote control UI…etc. Even Ken Ouyan personally has up to 41 patented technologies which accelerated oversea marketing and broadcasted Yantouch reputation.

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A whole head of hair made of earbuds at #sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show

vufine.com VUFINE IS A HIGH DEFINITION, WEARABLE DISPLAY THAT ALLOWS YOU TO ENJOY THE CONVENIENCE OF YOUR CURRENT TECHNOLOGY IN A HANDSFREE ENVIRONMENT. VUFINE CAN CONNECT TO ANYTHING CAPABLE OF OUTPUTTING A 720P HDMI SIGNAL TO GIVE YOU REAL-LIFE PICTURE-IN-PICTURE WITH YOUR FAVORITE DEVICES. SO, FREE UP YOUR HANDS AND TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THE TECHNOLOGY YOU ALREADY OWN — PLUG IN AND GET OUT THERE!

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#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX – xocial.com

See good. Do good. Feel good. And measure good.
You could say xocial is what happens when good karma meets the Internet. Instead of measuring our popularity, xocial measures our positive social impact—both the good we see others doing and the good we do ourselves. The goal is to make the world suck a little less. While having a lot of fun.

We’re able to measure good using a patented algorithm
we call the xo score™

The xo score is a number from 100 to 500. It’s built by earning xocial points—but just because you earn one xocial point doesn’t mean your xo score goes up by one. The algorithm factors in the type of deed or action, its significance, and whether you’re the one doing good or recognizing good.

Your xo score includes everyday actions (think driving your friend’s kids home from the sleepover) and monumental efforts (like raising the most money for a national charity). You can have an xo score if you’re an individual, a non-profit, a company, an institution or a geographic region. Your city can have an xo score. Your cat can’t.

Your xo score is based on efforts in six areas.
Building character
Day-to-day actions that show your generosity, kindness, candor, honesty and more.

Eco efforts
Steps taken to reduce your ecological footprint, from meatless Mondays to joining a car share.

Charitable works
Your support of charities, non-profits and social institutions like hospitals and schools.

Lifestyle choices
Actions that show you live consciously, from what you buy to how you treat your body.

Workplace leadership
Above-and-beyond efforts on the job that are an inspiration to others.

Lifelong learning
Your actions in the classroom of life, from tutoring your peers to enrolling in a post-grad program.



Changing Hungary's technology image at #sxsw #sxsw2016 +Bob Nagy fyi

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show – I tried the "emoji challenge" Q.What is VEVO?

A. VEVO is the leading all-premium music video and entertainment service. VEVO is available in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, which includes VEVO.com, Mobile Apps (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry PlayBook), Connected Television (Google TV, Boxee) and user embeddable video players. Additionally, through a special partnership with YouTube, VEVO is accessible in over 200 countries, expanding the platform’s reach around the globe. Through a distribution partnership, Vydia has made this premium service available to all of its clients for a yearly fee of $20.

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX

Q.What is VEVO?

A. VEVO is the leading all-premium music video and entertainment service. VEVO is available in the United States, Canada and United Kingdom, which includes VEVO.com, Mobile Apps (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7, BlackBerry PlayBook), Connected Television (Google TV, Boxee) and user embeddable video players. Additionally, through a special partnership with YouTube, VEVO is accessible in over 200 countries, expanding the platform’s reach around the globe. Through a distribution partnership, Vydia has made this premium service available to all of its clients for a yearly fee of $20.

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX – http://www.industrialrev.com/tripods/ 

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show, Austin, TX – #bernooli Bernooli solves the challenges of home bartending and makes creating cocktails at home easy, fun and rewarding. It all starts with an elegant smart pouring system, featuring patent-pending Smart Spouts. They go on any liquor bottle and connect to a powerful Cocktail Discovery app. With rich content, intuitive guidance, and precision measurement, Bernooli instills confidence, breeds fascination and pours perfectly-made cocktails every time. Impressive!

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX – Is your cooktop smart?TM Oliso’s Smart Hub & TopTM is the first cooktop that actually talks to its pot. Now food enthusiasts can engineer the perfect bite and achieve various precision cooking techniques with only one appliance.

Blue Goji and Onlife Health launch Goji Madness Tournament to help Americans of all ages get fit in a fun way!

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016 –

AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Blue Goji®, a wellness technology company, is excited to announce its anchoring “incentive reward” – the Goji Madness Tournament – for GojiVerse, the company’s gamified wellness platform. Unlike typical fitness-oriented competitions, Goji Madness is about having fun and staying active for users of all fitness levels and age groups (18 and older). No purchase of Goji Play is necessary.

Although the prevalence of conditions attributed to a lack of physical activity is well known, people’s good intentions to address sedentary habits is witnessed by the widespread purchase of at-home cardio equipment, gym memberships, and step-counting wearables. In reality, many of these equipment and gym memberships remain largely underutilized. The same is true for activity-tracking devices and mobile apps. Typically only the most dedicated, active, or healthy people continue using their wearable fitness devices six months after purchase. Simply put, although people have good intentions, they often struggle to achieve their health and wellness goals.

“Helping people realize their good intentions of building and maintaining healthier habits is our core mission. We accomplish this through true gamification of cardio workouts, fitness/wellness activities, and other mindful exercises,” explained Coleman Fung, co-founder and chief executive officer of Blue Goji. “Whether it’s our portfolio of cardio games to suit any taste or our unique Goji Moments-based challenges that connect users with shared goals, we have generated unprecedented levels of sustained user engagement from our pilot programs. Now we are introducing our anchoring incentive reward – Goji Madness – to complete our gamified platform.”

Wellness providers such as Onlife Health embrace the value health challenges play in getting people moving no matter their fitness level. Onlife has seen great success in using challenges to motivate members and deliver fun user experiences that improve health at the same time. The company will open the tournament to its employees and client-members nationwide.

“Onlife Health is excited to participate in Goji Madness,” said Arthur Lane, vice president of marketing and product development of Onlife. “Blue Goji has made tremendous strides in creating a platform that makes physical activity fun and rewarding. This technology drives engagement levels and addresses pain points of health plans and employers who are looking for innovative ways to manage their healthcare spend and boost engagement.”

“At every opportunity, we stress the importance of exercise in helping prevent or manage chronic conditions,” added Abbey Griffin, Onlife director of product development. “Members tell us they’d like to participate in fun activities both at the workplace as well as at home. Building upon our evidence-based approach, we’re making the investment to leverage this technology that we know can change sedentary habits and lead to improved health outcomes.”

Tournament Overview

The Goji Madness Tournament offers familiar and fun mechanics to encourage and incentivize Blue Goji users to stay active and have fun. Tournament contestants will be organized into four Goji Madness communities – Active Central (available to all contestants), BMI Camp (for individuals with a body mass index of 28 or higher), Seniors Rock (for individuals age 60 or older) and Veterans Honor (for our military veterans) – in order to provide members of each community with more targeted activities and encouragement through the competition. The tournament champion will win a new car – to be voted on by all Goji Madness contestants! Other great prizes will be awarded to the winners of each elimination round, starting with the top 64 contestants. The top four contestants will earn a trip to New York City, where they will compete live during the semi-final and the final rounds of the tournament. (See www.bluegoji.com/gojimadness for tournament information and rules.)

About Blue Goji

Blue Goji was founded in 2011 on the big data software development and gaming expertise of its founders who are focused on changing the health and wellness game. Fung, the founder and former CEO of OpenLink, aligned with Charles Huang and Kai Huang, brothers who developed the highly successful Guitar Hero franchise, to start Blue Goji. For more information, please see www.bluegoji.com.

Goji Play, GojiGo, GojiTate, Goji Madness and other products, brands and trademarks are property of Blue Goji Corp.

About Onlife Health, Inc.

Onlife Health, Inc. is a national wellness provider dedicated to transforming lives through healthier living. With two decades of experience, Onlife fosters highly personalized, sustained engagement strategies that begin with a deep understanding of each client’s unique wellness goals and culture. Combining the use of dedicated health coaches, support communities, onsite events, and the latest technologies, Onlife creates tailored programs based on client and member needs. Onlife Health’s engaging and interactive approach creates trusted relationships that inspire, energize, and guide people to make lasting changes in their lives, leading to improved health. For more information, visit www.onlifehealth.com.

Contacts
PR Consultant for Blue Goji
Laura M. Pennino, 281.286.9398, 713.419.1776 mobile
lp@penninoandpartners.com
@laurapennino
or
Vice President of Marketing for Blue Goji
Margo Wickersham, 512.270.4747 x 113
margo@bluegoji.com
@MargoWickersham
or
Director of Marketing for Onlife Health
Stephen Phanco, 615-620-2276
stephen_phanco@onlifehealth.com

My new buds at the SXSW Trade Show 2016 #sxsw #sxsw2016

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX – There are an increasing number of VR platforms, such as Oculus Rift, Gear VR, Google Cardboard, etc. If you want to develop a different app for each VR platform, your development costs will increase dramatically.
InstaVR can solve this. With InstaVR, you can publish to every VR platform with just one click. http://www.instavr.co/

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016
Action cameras, such as the GoPro make it fun and easy to capture your sweetest moments. But until now, it’s been a big challenge to manage and share your footage. Most of us have hours of footage hidden away on SD cards or hard drives, never to see the light of day. Until now.

The Sugarlock Action Cam Dock frees your videos, by making it fun and easy to manage and share your footage. This makes the Sugarlock, the newest, must-have accessory for the action cam.

The Sugarlock is a small, set-top box that connects to your TV. After a day filming, you simply plug your SD card into the Sugarlock and instantly get a gallery of your videos ready to view on your TV. Using your smartphone as the remote control, you are able to navigate through your videos, find and cut that perfect segment, and share it instantly to social media via a single tap. All in minutes and without a PC.

The Sugarlock also automatically backs up your footage to the cloud for safekeeping. The Sugarlock was built with the purpose of transforming formerly, what was hours of frustration, into minutes of enjoyment.

The Sugarlock was created by the same engineers responsible for the Roku, the ReplayTV (the first digital video recorder) and the Rio (the first MP3 player).

“I love using my GoPro and DJI Phantom to capture my life adventures. But I was frustrated by how hard it was to manage and share my footage,” said Don Woodward, Co-Founder & CTO. “After hearing the same problems from many others, we decided to build the Sugarlock Action Cam Dock. We hope you enjoy the Sugarlock as much as we do.”

To learn more about Sugarlock and Sugarlock’s Indiegogo campaign visit http://www.sugarlock.com/get or http://bit.ly/SugarlockIGG. 

This year's "AustinSpring SX Swag Award"! The envelope please? The winner is (drum roll): Louisiana for give me not only a great t shirt with a pocket but 5 different colored t shirts! Pretty awesome Louisiana! I'll never need to buy a t shirt again!

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX
Portable: GODJ Plus fits in your backpack. Smaller than a notebook!
All-in-One : No laptop, no smartphone required. You're good to GO DJing!
Record and Share: Record your GODJ mix live. Share the mix with others!
Premium Quality Effector: Phaser, flanger, delay, VCF, bitcrusher… You name it!
Built-in Speakers : Top-of-the-line speakers are now built-in. You're ready to party!
2 Decks: 2 touch screens and 2 sets of controllers. A true 2 deck system!
Sampler + Sequencer:Add spices with your own samples. Don't forget the extra fun with the step sequencer!
Auto-DJ:Every DJ needs a break. GODJ takes place and plays the entire playlist in sync while you're away!
Motion Loop: Create fills on your fingertips live! 

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016 Austin, TX http://beecanvas.com Collect in one space, You can collect images, documents, links, and all the information you need for project management.


#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016, Austin, TX – DoubleMe.me provides a novel 3D capture system, HoloPortal, that converts 2D videos into dynamic 3D models in real-time for various 3D content markets (e.g. game, 3D animation, VR/AR, 3D printing)

It mainly captures moving subjects (e.g. humans or animals) then generates fully animated 3D models as well as still subjects such as furniture. The 3D models contain volumetric 3D mesh, movement, and real textures (e.g. skin, facial expressions, clothing), hence “We literally put you into virtual reality.”

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show 2016 – ecubelabs.com Ecube Labs is a leading provider of smart waste management and logistics solutions that utilize IoT technologies. Their integrated line of products include solar-powered waste compacting bins (Clean CUBE), ultrasonic fill-level sensors (Clean CAP) that can be fitted to any type of container, and a data and predictive analytic SaaS platform (Clean City Networks). 

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show, Austin, TX – At the Japan Expo I found Joren which lets you turn your website in to an app with one click. Pretty cool.

#sxsw #sxsw2016 SXSW Trade Show, Austin, TX – This is a selfie stick on steroids! Lume Cube (http://www.lumecube.com) is a San Diego based company revolutionizing the way people capture content. Creating intelligent solutions in the world of imagery and casual capture devices, Lume Cube is disrupting the status quo and has created the world’s most captivating lighting device. From surfer to mountaineer, foodie to photographer and professional to consumer, the Lume Cube is a companion to all. Led by former tech executives, athletes and imagery specialists, Lume Cube was established in 2014.

Teforia is trying to blend the ancient tradition of tea with first-of-its-kind intelligent brewing technology to create a sensory experience. The company's flagship product, Teforia, is the first machine-learning-powered tea infusion device and promises to brew the “best cup of tea you’ve never had,” easily and automatically. Part companion and part guide, Teforia’s goal is to help you discover and enjoy the world of exceptional tea, while removing the traditional barriers associated with this journey. 

#sxsw #sxsw2016 Safe Catch is a start-up food technology company based in Sausalito, CA. At Safe Catch they wanted to bring safe and nutritious tuna back to pregnant women, young children and elite athletes. They did this by inventing new proprietary technology to test every single fish for mercury, and we are the only brand that does. They gave me a can to try and it tasted like fine, high grade tuna.

#sxsw #sxsw2016 Based in Austin, Texas, Supernaut is a technology solutions company, specializing in custom software development, mobile applications, cloud-based solutions, enterprise integration, IoT and technical consulting. With a team of experts possessing the knowledge and experience to tackle any technology challenge, Supernaut focuses on a skilled and efficient delivery of solutions, while offering a level of service that provides genuine business value for our clients.

TrackMaven empowers your digital marketing by analyzing your paid, owned, and earned marketing content, alongside your competitors’ content. Using data from this analysis, you can identify marketing opportunities, optimize your content distribution, and track your progress in real-time.

Video! Asian Hip Hop party at SXSW Music 2016

SXSW Create 2016 Story – Day 2 on March 12, 2016 Austin, TX

The SXSW Create Movie!

SXSW Create in Austin on 3/13/16

More faces from the SXSW Trade Show

SXSW Trade Show faces.

Faces at the SXSW Trade Show 2016 with +Conley Giles

Last year on this day – March 17 – at SXSW

Asian Hip Hop Thursday night in Austin at SXSW@

Austin, TX Weds 3/16/16 at the SXSW Trade Show

A Google "story" Tuesday 3/15/16 at the SXSW Trade Show #sxsw #sxsw2016

SXSW Trade Show

"Save the American Inventor" robot at the SXSW Trade Show 2016. #sxsw #sxsw2016 #tradeshow

Very odd display of USB devices at Suprnaut at #sxsw trade show 2016

DJ at the Takei Swagbucks Exchange at SXSW where you can barter your swag for different swag.

SXSW Trade Show is a great place to stock up on the shirts!

Cool guitar at SXSW Music Trade Show

+Shey Roth at SXSW 2016

Taking a break at SXSW 2016.

+Conley Giles looks at the latest VR Augmented reality real estate solution of +Ten X at the SXSW Trade Show.

#sxsw music trade show 3/17/16

Asian Hip Hop at the Palm Door for SXSW Music 2016. 3/17/16.

An album of SXSW Gaming and Music. At the Gaming Expo I found out my huge stash of IBM keyboards are worth $200 each and marveling at the modern day version of this keyboard from Logitech with the LED colored keys. Some great videos of the Asian hip hop show on Sixth Street. The Music Trade Show and a few concerts I went to with my son Shey.

SXSW Trade Show 2016 Austin, TX – 3/16/16

SXSW Trade Show Day 2 – 3/14/16 – Austin, TX

SXSW Trade Show 2016 – 3/15/16

Monday, 3/14/16 at SXSW 2016 Austin.

SXSW Create Day 3

Clips from #sxsw SXSW Create on 3/12/16

Austin, TX – SXSW Create 2016 featured robots, 3D printing, and a STEM/STEAM education projects. It was all free and held on the beautiful Lady Bird Lake setting at Palmer Auditorium. 3/12/16. 

A few clips from day 1 at #sxsw 

Dorothy shows you how to make coffee with an aeropress.  

Longhorn with saddle, statue at UT Austin

It was a day of fitness in Austin on Friday 3/6/16.  I did the Nike Training Club class with +Martin Egwuagu and a Vinayasa yoga class and capped it off with a 2 hour swim in the Rec pool at UT.  And a walk to Wheatsville Coop.  Swim season is really here!

Flashback! Carnaval one year ago. 

Vic and Nellie Epp visit Texas on a mission to help an orphanage in South Texas, "Children's Haven"

Great day at the Gregory Gym pool! March 1 was the opening day for the Rec Pool at UT and the water was perfect, clear and in the 70s. No one else was in the pool. I swam for 3 hours and then did an hour of Pilates, I love these relaxed free form workouts.
Gregory Gym Aquatic Complex Features:

Indoor Lap Pool: 7 lanes, 25 yds., 81-83 degrees, 4’6”-9’
Indoor Leisure Pool: 1000 sq. ft., 85-87 degrees, 4’-4’6”
Outdoor Lap Pool: 12 lanes, 25 yds., 80-82 degrees, 3’6”-4’6”
Outdoor Leisure Pool: 5,600 sq. ft., 82-84 degrees, 3’6”-6’
Outdoor Event Pool: 2,200 sq. ft., 82-84 degrees, 3’6”-4’6”
Outdoor Spa: 20 person capacity, 102-104 degrees, 3’6”
Deck space and lounging ledge
Wireless internet for UT folks
Lightning detection and warning system

King of twitter and +Jeff Wilson​ with the whole Kasita crew

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/851921 – book now on airbnb!
We just had Sam stay in our "SoulPad" which looks like what would happen if a tipi married a yurt and had a baby. It's pretty cool. She loved staying in it and took part in one of our outdoor bbqs and sing alongs at AustinSpring out in Cedar Creek. We also just got a "tiny home" shown in these pix which will be on Airbnb soon.

I love this workout that uzzi is doing!

"First Thursday" is a monthly event in the SoCo section of Austin (South Congress Avenue).  SoCo is a trendy mix of antique stores, top flight restaurants, food trailers, music joints (Continental Cub) and boutique hotels spawned by my former employer, the San Jose Hotel.  Drink and Click sometimes meets at Guerro's, shown in these pictures and famous for its taco bar and great Tex Mex food.

First Thursday in Austin's SoCo District (South Congress Avenue) with +atx drink and click

I bought my first bitcoin on a snowy day in Austin 2 years ago (and also attended a Nike Training Club event near the LBJ School at UT).

Om the Dome at the Texas State Capitol, 3 years ago and, later that day, at a theater in East Austin. Jan 27, 2013

Nike Training Club with +Martin Egwuagu and +flor beckman two years ago (Jan 25, 2014)

Just a brief episode in Austin at my condo board meeting, Whole Foods, and a walk across downtown from North to South ending up at West 6th Street.

UT Campus – University of Texas

Live video calls with remote expert are key driver for enterprise #AugmentedReality http://ow.ly/SEoVX  @APXLabs 

Saturday, 1/23/16 in Austin at the Dive Shop, a condo for sale near Central Market, and a thrift store.

Tom's Dive Shop on Burnet Road in Austin, TX

Uptown condo for sale, just a few blocks from Central Market, hottest place to be in Austin. 

Tour of AustinSpring.com – Tiny Home, Spring Lodge, Pool Home, GreenPlex and Airstream Trailers. 

Clara Bensen at a BookPeople signing for her book "No Baggage"

Tany Stone at the campfire last night at Austin Spring Village in Cedar Creek.

Find your pitch today! An amazing event at the Capital Factory on the top floor of the +Omni Hotel in Austin.

Nike Training Club led by +Martin Egwuagu on the lawn next to the +Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum on the UT Campus. You can workout with the Nike Training Club on your phone (both android and iphone), on the xbox, on youtube, and "live" like we did here. I like the live version the best.

Two years ago today at +Nike Training Club

The Earth Native Wilderness School 25-acre wooded campus sits between the towns of Cedar Creek and Bastrop, TX. It is just a short twenty minute drive from Austin and is the home of a ton of incredible native plants and wildlife. The land sits on the banks of Cedar Creek, which is one of the rare year round spring fed creeks in Central Texas. From the native pecan bottom area (which includes some huge old growth pecan trees) to the rolling hills covered in White Oak, Cedar Elm, and Mesquite, opportunities for exploration and adventure are never more than a step away.

Wildlife on the land is abundant and includes, white-tailed deer, turkeys, armadillos, bobcats, racoons, grey-foxes, coyotes, and eastern cottontails. Numerous bird species are also incredibly abundant and include, red-shouldered hawks, several resident barred owls, pileated woodpeckers, and numerous other species. We are also lucky to have a very diverse number of native edible and medical plants including, turk’s cap, chili pequin, prickly pear, pecan, mesquite, wood sorrel, sugarberry, dewberry, cucumber plant, toothache tree, wafer ash, pokeweed and more.

They have many cool teaching and camping locations on the land including 4 outdoor fire pits. Other facilities on campus include indoor bathrooms with attached showers, an open-air outdoor classroom, a school office, and a 16-foot Earth Bag roundhouse that is currently under construction.

Earth Native Wilderness School
137 Woodview Lane
Bastrop, TX 78602

More photos from my son Shey's visit to Austin during #sxsw 

Two years ago at the +Mean Eyed Cat in West Sixth Street in Austin.

My son Shey's road trip from California to Austin. Jan 11, 2011

Remembering this day 5 years ago. My son visits us from California.

Louis Black discusses Jonathan Demme presents Made in Texas. Artsy films home brewed in Austin, Texas.

Post film showing coments by Louis Black (of the Austin Chronicle and SXSW)

Under the guidance of Louis Black, Jonathan Demme Presents: Made in Texas is a series of six short films from Austin’s early indie scene. These restored films were presented together for the first time in Austin since Jonathan Demme introduced them at the Collective for Living Cinema in October 1981. Made in Texas premiered at SXSW Film 2015.

This collection of rarely seen indie films reveals the DNA of a regional film culture that started in Austin but has become worldwide. The films present a way of thinking about film and making movies that broke barriers, celebrated the improbable, and launched today’s independent film scene.

The streetwise, punk, DIY ethos percolating in the 1980s culminated in a synergistic explosion of music and film, the repercussions of which are still being felt. It was in this unique atmosphere that the language of independent, maverick filmmaking took shape. This fertile cinematic soil bred Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, and a dozen other directors, as well as the Austin Film Society and SXSW Film.

Many others involved in the scene have become international successes, industry leaders who have founded festivals and institutes, and distinguished writers and scholars who teach in the country’s most prestigious film programs.

Source: https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/visit/calendar/texas-focus-jonathan-demme-presents-made-in-texas-11416

Airstream for rent "Alpine" – 1191 Shiloh Rd, Cedar Creek, TX 78612. 501.365.1001 – on 15 acres with really good people for neighbors, hike and bike trails along Cedar Creek, a large in ground pool, and fast internet (300 mbps)

Five years ago today with +Shey Roth

Two years ago on January 8th at the White Horse in Austin.

Two years ago today on Austin's East end at a Drink and Click ATX photo shoot.

Three years ago today at a photoshoot at the Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin.

Test video on blab.im … this my learning curve on pushing blab to youtube

Don't mess with WordPress.

Winners!

Golden Globes!  Clip of Ricky Gervais and list of winners on http://tvreviewer.com

in a blab session right now.

Barren pecan trees.

AustinSpring Lodge on the Winter Solstice. The longest day is past now.

Remember this dinner party with Austin Burge, +Taylor Burge , +Lacey Wilson , +Tiffany Wilson , +Shey Roth , +Lara Myers +Dorothy Epp and Cedric "Vic" Verdier ?

Google's elves made this little movie about +Urban Co-Lab

New "Story"!  Ugly Sweater Christmas party at the Urban Co-Lab in East Austin.  Funny story. back in the 80s when I first landed in Austin, the first business some friends had was at the same intersection across the street, a soy dairy at 12th and Chicon.  That was way, way before this area was "cool".

Urban Co-Lab Ugly Sweater Party video

Urban Co-Lab Holiday Party

Monday, December 14, 2015 5:00pm 8:00pm – This was my second visit to the +Urban Co-Lab and it was just as much, or more, fun at the first time. It was their Ugly Sweater Holiday Party! I got to meet and mingle with their members, local businesses, and nonprofits in the area. Appetizers were provided by Emojiis Grilled Cheese. and there was an abundance of good wine, good craft beer, and deserts of all kinds. This is becoming my favorite coworking space in Austin.

Urban Co-Lab Holiday Party

Monday, December 14, 2015 5:00pm 8:00pm – This was my second visit to the +Urban Co-Lab and it was just as much, or more, fun at the first time. It was their Ugly Sweater Holiday Party! I got to meet and mingle with their members, local businesses, and nonprofits in the area. Appetizers were provided by Emojiis Grilled Cheese. and there was an abundance of good wine, good craft beer, and deserts of all kinds. This is becoming my favorite coworking space in Austin.

Urban Co-Lab Holiday Party

Monday, December 14, 2015 5:00pm 8:00pm – This was my second visit to the +Urban Co-Lab and it was just as much, or more, fun at the first time. It was their Ugly Sweater Holiday Party! I got to meet and mingle with their members, local businesses, and nonprofits in the area. Appetizers were provided by Emojiis Grilled Cheese. and there was an abundance of good wine, good craft beer, and deserts of all kinds. This is becoming my favorite coworking space in Austin.

Swim season is over till March! 60 degrees. Time to pull out the wet suit.

Tany ponders her future and her next move while her monster truck digests some diesel fuel cleaner.

TacoDeli is one of Austin's highest energy taco joints, I ran in to +Ricardo Guerrero there and had some shrimp and veggie tacos. Delicious!

Rediscover Nov 29, 2014 when I bought an airstream trailer, had fun in Soco, and assorted other stuff. Memory Lane!

My birthday Dec 2, 2014 when I turned 70. I just turned 71. There are lots of pictures here in my G+ stream about my 71st birthday. Here I'm with Bubbly +Bob Nagy and Lonesome George Frimpter, blind man. We're hamming it up. George has some well managed ham gear. Bob is the bomb when it comes to ham radio, he's the Kriyananda of Austin ham radio.

AustinSpring.com country tour of houses and surroundings, my birthday celebration, and the green home.

tour

AustinSpring.com GreenHome West Side.

AustinSpring.com GreenHome East Side.

The road to AustinSpring.com GreenHome

Sort of a random tour of AustinSpring.com and four of the fifteen acres. The pool, the 1,200 sf green home, the tiny green home, the airstreams, the 3,000 sf pool house, the 5,000 sf AustinSpring Lodge, the Winnebago, the water well, and the cottage. 

The day I got the Winnebago for $2,000. It runs. It has a generator. Nov 29, 2014.