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Ah, SXSW Interactive! A great chance to see what's hot in the world of web and mobile, meet up with a bunch of our fabulous customers...and wear rockstar wigs and hand out fake mustaches. Yep, the TechSmith crew did our part to help "keep Austin weird" this year.

If you didn't make it to the festival, you can get recaps of a lot of the sessions as slides and notes, sketch notes, or even rap!

This year at the TechSmith booth we invited people to show off--in 2 minutes or less!--an app or website they built. We recorded these demos with a combination of Camtasia, a Kodak Zi8 video camera, and an IPEVO document camera for capturing mobile apps. Editing chops provided by Camtasia for Mac.

Here are demo screencasts from six startups we discovered and thought you'd want to know about...along with a quick, written description of each.

(Videos are embedded below in a playlist. Navigate between videos using the arrows and thumbnails; if you're having trouble viewing them, click here.)

Hashable (mobile app) - keep track of the people you meet on Twitter and in the offline world, either publicly or privately. See who's part of your "inner circle" and who you connected with at that last tradeshow. Which reminds me...I still owe a few follow-up emails from SXSW.

Vablet (mobile app) - push videos, docs, images, presentations onto your team's mobile devices...get stats on how they're using the content...and refresh or kill it when you need to.

Remind101 (web app) - developed right in our own backyard of Lansing, MI, this one sends students a text or email to remind them of the big exam or final project. Can it prevent that nightmare where it's finals week and you remember that you were enrolled in 5 classes, not 4?

WebDoc (web app) - a quick way to pull rich media and interactive widgets into a blog post or webpage. For example, make a slideshow out of of images found all over the web.

Locaii (mobile app) - start conversations with friends or strangers nearby. Yes, in the old days we did this without an app. But imagine being able to say, "whoa, did you see that!?!?" without giving yourself away.

FriendlyMusic (web app) - put music in your videos, legally. As in, remain friends withYouTube. Right now the licenses are for consumer use only, but CEO Paul Anthony says they will be offering commercial licenses for business use soon. And in the meantime, they offer commercial licenses at MusicLicensingStore.com.

How about you? Did you discover any interesting, new startups by attending SXSWi or tuning in to the chatter? Post a link in the comments or tweet about it using the hashtag #sxswapps!

Daniel Foster is the "social media guy" for TechSmith. He enjoys iceboating, ice cream socials, and isosceles triangles. Tweet him up @fosteronomo

"A man without a mustache is like a cup of tea without sugar" ~ English Proverb

The TechSmith crew has descended on Austin, Texas this week for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW). SXSW is like spring break for geeks or geek family reunion!

TechSmithies are attending sessions, meeting up with users and we have a booth on the tradeshow floor (booth 340). If you're attending the conferece, I'd love to meet-up - drop me a line (517.410.0030 or email.)!

We'll have some fun swag for our booth visitors... Fake mustaches! Who doesn't need a fake mustache? If you're at the show, stop by, pick one up, take your pic around town, and post it! Use the hashtag #rockstache so we can find them. That's the Michigan State Alumni Association (MSUAA) (my alma mater!) in the photo rocking out the rockstaches last night! MSUAA has great coverage of SXSW here.

We also have some fun free digital swag for our Snagit users. We have some Rockstache Mustache Snagit Stamps! You can view what they look like here.

Ready to add some mustaches to your Snagit captures?

• First, download the zip file here. Then unzip the file. If you're on a PC, here's how. On a Mac, just double click the zip file.
• After you've downloaded and unzipped the file, for Snagit on the PC, here is a tutorial on how to install and use stamps (see in the video around the 2:15 marker).
• For Snagit for the Mac, you can unzip the file and drag the png mustache file to Snagit's tray and then combine it with your screencapture to use. Here's a quick Jing showing you how.

I am posting pics from SXSW here. I can't wait to see what you create with your Snagit mustache stamps! Be sure to tag your screencaps with #rockstache so we can find them.

"The stars at night, are big and bright... Deep in the heart of Texas!!!" I always think of that song when I'm in Texas. I'll spare you my singing (you can thank me later). Next week, the TechSmith crew is heading down to Austin, Texas for the SXSW Interactive Festival! Tony Dunckel - the Snagit and Jing Product Manager, Mike Kujansuu - the Camtasia Studio and Morae Marketing Manager, Brooks Andrus - Senior Flash Developer, and I are headed south to the event.

I have 10 One-Day Tickets to the SXSW Interactive Festival to give away! First come, first serve! The ticket is good for one of the following days:

• Saturday, March 14, Noon - 6pm
• Sunday, March 15, Noon - 6pm
• Monday, March 16, Noon - 4pm

If you'd like a ticket, email me or contact me on Twitter (@betsyweber or @techsmith).

If you're in the area or attending SXSW, we'd love to meet up with you, hear your feedback about the products, do a screencast, or just hang out! Beverage of your choice is on me!

After SXSW wraps up, I'll be headed to Microsoft Mix09 in Las Vegas. Same rule there. Email or tweet me if you'd like to meet-up! I'd love to see you there!