During our time at south by south west we experienced a wide range of exciting experiences. One of the most memorable was captured on film for all the world to enjoy. Our last evening in Austin, and the sun was shining, while engaged in conversation with Steve Ganz (Principal Web Developer at LinkedIn) we were approached by a man claiming to be the only living Jewish Gansta rapper. After a brief conversation ‘Kosha Dillz’, was keen to showcase this raw talent and offered up a brief shout-out to some of the Fingertap crew if he could plug his up coming album, so what the hell… here is some gratuitous plugging!!

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Well the Facebook Development Keynote is what we came for but in all honesty the interview was a bit waste of time. It was like watching someone famous getting chatted up by their biggest fan. (she has just wrote a book about him which she plugged on several occasions)I do feel for Sarah Lacey as it really did seem like she was committing career suicide as the crowd became more and more hostile and Mark Zuckerberg even at one point said to her that you do need to ask me some questions (at which point applause broke out for at least a minute). Once she realised the crowd had turned she declared “In true digg style I will open it up to the audience” and some decent questions started coming out.Such was the scale of the PR fallout that Facebook had another Q and A session at the The Pangaea where he answered a series of more questions of which the video will uploaded to later. Great news though the eccommerce platform is being built and will be available soon. We will upload the video footage of this in the coming days but for now we are off to the Great British Booze Up party.

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