Hello! I just signed up to Twitter. Actually I did months ago but never used it. Now I want to get started. It seems pretty easy to use but still confused with the @reply or @ this or that not sure what it is… If you have tips let me know.

Follow me @ http://twitter.com/arturot

I will be using Twitter and this blog to broadcast from SxSW which is a massive event in Austin beginning next weekend. Microsoft, like many other software vendors and design industry professionals will be part of this over the weekend gathering where we will witness amazing sessions and meet tons of interesting and creative folks from all around the world. My friend Miguel Jimenez from Spain will be there, he is a gifted mind who understands Design and Development and is skillful with WPF and Silverlight. He traveled all the way from Spain to join us at Redmond for the MVP Summit (Most Valuable Professionals), then he rented a car and is currently driving from Seattle and all the way to Austin TX!… that a good few thousands of miles away!… Anyway… just like this guy, many others are heading down to Austin, TX. You can only imagine the energy that will be gathering down there.

Follow this blog and my Twitter if you want to get updated on what is happening in SxSW. There will be thousand’s of souls in there, twitting and blogging… me, I will focus on Microsoft UX updates as well as other cool things I get to see there.

My first rant in this blog: The only thing I really didn’t like about SxSW is its *terrible* website! man! for being a design conference, such a huge popular and amazing event the website is crap. When I signed up I felt I was going back to the early 90’s when no one knew anything about web design or usability… It was hard to sign up, steps through the process didn’t flow. The look and feel for the site is null. The site is so poor in its design, let alone the visual part, but the usability of it that I even think they did on purpose, may be they were trying to convey a message about, I don’t know, something. Less is more? but here less is less… May be they on purpose don’t want to make the site too prevalent? or stand out too much? Anyway, if it was for the website only and I was totally new to SxSW then I would think this was a low scale/cheap event. It is not, it is indeed the most important creative design gathering of the year. No doubt about it… I’m not saying I wanted “flashy” webpages with animation or effects, but there is just no readable concept in the usability or design or the site.

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