SXSW Interactive Highlights Up and Coming Mobile Apps

The four-day SXSW Interactive Festival recently wrapped up in Austin.  The festival, described as an incubator of cutting-edge technologies, brings together creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators, content programmers and new media entrepreneurs for hands-on training and forecasting of the future of the interactive industry.  PCWorld contributor Mark Sullivan provided an overview of the most talked about new web and mobile services introduced at the show.  These included:

• Gowalla - a geolocation and gaming service that allows you to share your locations with friends through Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets.
• Spotify -a mobile music app not yet available in the US that operates on a mini player or on a mobile phone running on the Android platform.
• LoKast - which allows you to broadcast content from your phone to ad-hoc networks of people within 300 feet of you. 
• MOG AllAccess - a cloud-based mobile streaming music service that will give users unlimited access to about 7 million songs and podcasts for $10/month. 
• Flavors.me - a “bulid-your-own-website” app that lets you pull a variety of personal, web-based content including social networking status, music playlists, photo streams, your resume, etc. into a very clean and artistic presentation of your own Web page.

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Learn more about the annual SXSW Festivals which, in addition to the Interactive Festival, also feature independent music and film festivals.