What’s Next?

So South by Southwest (SXSW) is famous for launching twitter, making twitter popular and last year for the launch of geo-location tools Gowalla and Foursquare. What’s this year’s big application or tool?

Zip. Zilch. Nada. Sorry to report that nothing is really hot besides the aforementioned tools (twitter and geo-location). Geo-location apps Gowalla and foursquare are really big this year, with both releasing new versions in time for SXSW. But nothing else has generated a ton of hype. I’ll search back through tweets from hash tags to see if there is anything new that I missed.

I’m not disappointed or surprised, because it’s hard to live up to that hype year in and year out. There has been a ton of great sessions thus far, I’ve met a lot of great folks from a variety of disciplines, but I haven’t met the next killer app.