Circus Mashimus Lounge and Developer Meetup @ SXSW Interactive 2010, presented by Mashery
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The circus has left the building and on to the next town. We at Mashery would like to thank all who visited the Circus Mashimus Lounge at SXSW 2010. It was an absolute pleasure to meet each and everyone one of you and we hope you enjoyed your time while in the lounge.
A thank you to our lounge sponsors:
Best Buy | CafePress | Hallmark | Giiv.com
and to our Geek Sideshow Demo Exhibit:
Netflix | Billboard | The New York Times
If you didn’t have a chance to visit the lounge, check out this great Flip cam shot video:
Circus Mashimus – SXSW 2010: THE MOVIE
The Stats
This year’s Circus Mashimus Lounge was the biggest we’ve done thus far. Life under the big tent was certainly busy. Check out these stats:
- We gave out over 2,500 bags of popcorn
- Handed out over 1000 free T-Shirts featuring some of the worlds most famous “Mash-Ups” such as the El Camino, the Mermaid and The Mullet
- An estimated 6000 SxSWi attendee visits, developers & designers who stopped by lounge
- The chip and dip during our daily “API” hour went faster than you could say “Circus Mashimus” 5 times.
- Bloody Mary’s were needed but the big draw was the ever flowing free coffee from 9:30am – 11am. We changed coffee containers (enough to wake at least 200 tired souls) twice per day!!
T-Shirts That Rock!!
We got some serious love from the folks at SXSW this year. It appears that our T-Shirts were a hit. Check out these blog post direct from the fans of the Circus Mashimus T-Shirt.
http://www.thingstheydont.com/
The Big Winners
If you were a developer visiting the lounge and happen to fill out one of our survey’s, you were entered for a chance to win one of our display monitors being used for the Geek Sideshow. Five lucky developers took home a 23 inch flat panel monitor from Dell so that they could code bigger and faster. We asked a few of our winners why develop apps from APIs. Here’s what a couple of them had to say:
Norman Guadagno
@thinktone
Seattle, WA
www.methodologie.com
What’s the best reason why Norman likes to develop app using APIs?
Best reason to develop apps with APIs is to avoid having to create custom data calls!
TJ Taylor
@thisisform
Austin, TX
http://thisisform.com
What’s the best reason why TJ likes to develop app using APIs?
I use APIs to drastically reduce development time and duh, to make money.
Congrats to our other winners:
R. D. Morgan from Texas
A. Klob from Alabama
K. Cara from California
Mashery Meets the Press
We had quite a few visitors, ranging from the press to internet celebs, stop by to check out the lounge. Check out these notable quotes and post:
- Blogger/social media personality Rachel Sklar got her trademark long hair cut off in our lounge for charity and donated it to “Locks of Love” – http://sxswmakeover.tumblr.com/
- http://blog.programmableweb.com
- http://www.williamhertling.com/
- http://twitter.com/search?q=circus%20mashimus
- http://gowalla.com/spots/694436
See ya’ll in 2011 and make sure to bring an appetite!!