Contributors A-Z | Top contributors | Edit profile

Nadia Neophytou: In New York

Nadia Neophytou is a New York based South African journalist most known for her work as the Entertainment Reporter for Eyewitness News, which is broadcast on Talk Radio 702, 567 Cape Talk, Highveld Stereo 94.7 and Kfm 94.5. She is now based in New York, as their US correspondent. Nadia also contributes to publications such as O, The Oprah Magazine, GQ, The Mail and Guardian andThe Sunday Times Lifestyle.

RECENT POSTS

• Great lessons on amazement, interactive shopping, products and people

  There was a lot of information floating around the recent PSFK Conference in New York and it took some time to digest the insight given out by speakers. The information imparted was well worth the tech time-out and there some good advice retailers can take from the world of tech.Amazement is key! Futurist and filmmaker Jason Silva -- who speaks at a gazillion kilometres a second -- says technology can quickly manifest our ideas and desires but that to really see ...

• 4 Lessons from the PSFK Conference on creativity, business and technology

  It took some time to digest the insight given out by speakers at the recent PSFK Conference in New York, but the information imparted was well worth the tech time-out.1. It is possible to have deeper and longer-lasting ways for people to tell stories about their lives Even as we hurtle towards this over-load of information that seems to be disposable and created by someone else, Jonathan Harris believes we have an opportunity to create something more tangible. He’s behind the ...

• 5 Tips from Clay Shirky on creativity and innovation

  Clay Shirky -- the writer, teacher, and consultant on all things online -- recently told an audience of innovators, tech enthusiasts and creative minds what they’d least been expecting to hear. There are no rules for creativity.The event, organised by innovation news site PSFK is designed to inspire and impart knowledge from those who've taken risks and succeeded, with experience and insight to share.Shirky's talk underlined a point that had been illustrated by those who took part in ...

• Memeburn’s best moments from SXSW 2012

  With South by Southwest Interactive now all but forgotten in the wake of the tunes from the 2 000 or so musicians who took to stages all over Austin for the music portion of the festival and conference this past weekend, organizers and tech enthusiasts alike are reflecting on another year gone by.For ten days, role-players involved in the tech, film and music fields gathered at the annnual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, with an eye to ...

• SXSW: Spotify’s Ken Parks talks about the future of music consumption

  It's a favourite topic of discussion in these new-frontier times -- the future of music and how it's consumed by fans. Spotify, the digital music service, is driving this conversation forward by providing a music discovery and sharing platform that has resonated with both artists and fans. According to Spotify's Chief Content Officer Ken Parks, we're only just getting a glimpse now of how those two elements fit together and can be mutually beneficial.Parks says there are 10-million active users ...

• #OccupyDemocracy: Sean Parker and Al Gore talk social credit at SXSW

  Former US Vice President Al Gore and Napster co-founder Sean Parker tag-teamed a presentation at South by Southwest Interactive, urging Americans to use their social media credit for furthering democracy, especially as the country heads towards presidential elections. While they concentrated on America, the pair’s words are pertinent to any democracy and the role new media can play in strengthening it."Our democracy has been hacked," Gore announced to the packed auditorium. “It no longer works to serve the people of ...

• Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman talks social media at SXSW

  Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan took to the stage at South by Southwest -- not to perform, but to be interviewed by social media guru Brian Solis -- on his views about how social media has changed the music business. Corgan, who has over 100 000 followers on Twitter, wants fans to step up their support and help create new ways of sustaining the music industry.Corgan, whose band found great success in the 90s and helped break stereotypes with their ...

• SXSW opening weekend: rain, social, comedy

  There wasn't much sun around for the opening weekend of the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas -- actually there was none -- but that fact, like many of those attendees new to the overwhelming schedule that makes up the annual event, soon found itself lost, among the dozens of other facts -- about social media, about the future of video blogging, about online journalism -- that were offered up by this year's panels in the festival's first days.An embodiment ...

• 10 apps for keeping your New Year’s resolutions

  The streamers have all been cleared, the champagne -- if there's any left -- is flat by now and you're contemplating the excesses of the festive period. Yup, it's a new year and we all know what that means: resolutions. We all know resolutions are difficult to keep. You need all the help you can get. Being of a technological bent, Memeburn decided to point you in the direction of a few apps designed to keep you on the straight ...

• How three big New York museums are embracing the app experience

  In a classic case of “if you can’t beat 'em, join 'em", museums and art galleries around the world are embracing the opportunities of new technology in an effort to keep up with the times and grow their audiences, or, in some cases, just to hold onto them. The Guggenheim, the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Modern Art -- some of New York’s most prominent museums and art galleries are all are developing and showcasing their own ...

• Read more articles... »