SXSW Interactive Overview

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South By Southwest 2012 has drawn to a close, and its Interactive programme of events has sketched out the trajectory of digital over the next year.

Homeless Hotspots

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Ad agency BBH New York experimented with using homeless people as Wi-Fi hotspots at SXSW. Needless to say it generated some controversy, but was it necessarily a bad move?

App-vertising

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Gone are the days of apps supporting broader campaigns - now broad campaigns are used to sell apps, like Angry Birds' collaboration with NASA or this Canadian campaign for a mobile app that tags potholes for repair.

Draw Everything

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Hyper-addictive app Draw Something has taken the mobile gaming world by storm, attracting an impressive 20 million downloads in just 5 weeks.

Trip The Light Fantastic

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Japanese dance group Wrecking Crew Orchestra augment their costumes with TRON-esque lights and put on one hell of a show.

Busy Week at Soap AU

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SOAP PROJECTS: We've been in a frenzy of activity this week getting Lynx Anarchy (with mobile site and game) off the ground, as well as taking our Cornetto Enigma Bear/Xbox Kinect show around Australia!

KONY 2012

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Whether you only watched the heart-wrenching video, or dug a little deeper into the issue, there is no doubt that KONY 2012 is one of the most successful online activist campaigns we've seen in a while.

Universal Scale

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Ever been told to put things in perspective? Take a look at The Scale of the Universe 2 by Cary Huang to see just how you fit into the big (and small) picture.

Showtime Short Stories

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Cable channel Showtime have launched their Short Stories series, which features new material from internet legends like PES and Cyriak.

Invisible Mercedes

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To hype the launch of their upcoming zero emissions vehicle, Mercedes Benz created an invisible (sort of) car.