Widgetbox at SXSW Interactive – Vote for Matt Basta and Will Price!

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Widgetbox at SXSW Interactive – Vote for Matt Basta and Will Price!

12 August 2008 1,005 views 22 Comments

For those of you who have been to the SXSW Interactive Festival before, you know how great it is. Well, Widgetbox has been nominated to speak at 2 panels there, and we need your help to make it happen! Community voting counts for 30% of how the panels are chosen, and voting ends on August 29th. If all of you take 2 minutes and vote for us, I think we can make it happen.

Please vote for these two awesome panels:

Widget Warriors: Dominating the Web by Building It

What’s with all the widget hype? For many of us, they’re just annoying applications on Facebook. Hear from the teens and 20-somethings who are building widgets to understand how these portable pieces of the web represent a much greater opportunity for today’s generation of Internet users and the advertisers who want to reach them

This panel features our very own Matt Basta, known better to most of you as Bastawhiz. He has been a Widgetbox widget developer since the very beginning of widget time (that’s 2006), and he has joined us as an intern this summer. Matt is a super talented developer, and what many of you may not know is that he is 18 years old. His work speaks for itself, and we would love to see him highlighted at this incredibly popular festival!

The second panel we are nominated for is:

Cage Match: Battle of the Widget Business Model

Eye-popping valuations for widget companies have given new urgency to a debate that’s been around as long as web widgets have: Other than being acquired, how does one build a successful business on widgets? This panel will allow the top widget CEOs to defend their models — and answer tough questions.

This panel features our rockin’ CEO Will Price, and we think it would be a great and informative (and much needed!) discussion about just how to monetize widgets.

So, please help us out and vote. If you don’t have an account for the SXSW Interactive Panel Picker, you will need one to be able to vote. You can sign up (for free) here.

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22 Comments »

Matt said:

woohoo!

# 13 August 2008 at 2:34 pm

tracyp said:

Gooooooooooo Matt!

# 13 August 2008 at 3:38 pm

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# 13 August 2008 at 11:53 pm

Widgetbox said:

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# 14 August 2008 at 9:58 am

Matt Basta Rocks! by Widgetbox Blog said:

[...] written a bit about Matt Basta in the past – most recently because he has been nominated to speak at SXSW [...]

# 18 August 2008 at 10:52 am

Your last week to vote for Widgetbox at SXSW! by Widgetbox Blog said:

[...] are a ton of great panels that have been nominated – we think we have 2 great ones. I’ve written about our submissions before, but we have some new additional panelists you might be interested [...]

# 25 August 2008 at 3:51 pm

female said:

Thanks,very useful and interesting post

# 26 November 2008 at 10:30 am

Juegos Online said:

Who is Matt?

# 17 December 2008 at 5:09 pm

Johny said:

Congrats from us …

Keep up the good work

# 19 December 2008 at 10:57 am

Singapore SEO said:

I have heard of bastawhiz on twitter and have seen his work. Remarkable is what we can say.

# 28 December 2008 at 1:55 pm

Engagement Ring said:

Matt is a super developer! I have come across a few of his works. What i did not know is that he is only 18 years old!! That is really impressive. Kudos to him. I surely will vote for him!!

# 9 January 2009 at 4:21 pm

Singapore Hotel said:

I'm definitely voting for Matt.

# 19 January 2009 at 12:10 pm

Pet Supplies said:

I would definitely love to vote for the 18 yr old prodigee, but the contest seems to be over. My bad luck

# 25 January 2009 at 1:14 pm

David said:

Congratulations matt
I've been hearing nice things about you

# 28 January 2009 at 4:55 pm

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