Austin is all about High Tech, Social Media and Innovation!

Austin is changing quickly and becoming a target city for new venture capitol dollars and growing industries--of recent note are the new Formula One (F1) Racing venue and the emerging home of Social Media and Software development. Austin has always been known as a hot bed of high tech innovation and live music entertainment, but the new Austin is breaking the mold and surprising many people for what lies ahead.

Some of the technology industry's largest companies have ten's of thousands of their brightest and best paid brain-trusts in the Austin area. IBM. Intel. Dell. AMD. Microsoft. Samsung. Motorola. HP. Sun MicroSystems. 3M. Apple. Many of these companies are based here or have some of their most critical intellectual assets in the Austin area--employing thousands of engineers, sales and marketing professionals. And the new wave of high tech professionals that are moving to Texas and calling Austin home are in the growing and emerging software worlds of Social Media and software development. 

In case you haven't kept up with some of the social media giants who have set up shop in Austin of late--let me just name a few: Paypal, Google, FaceBook, LegalZoom, 44 Doors, FG Squared, Spiceworks, and many other social media and software developers. Some say that Austin feels like the San Fransisco Bay Area of the early 90's. In fact, the Social Media Business Council has moved its HQ office to Austin! This organization includes more than 100 prominent companies and brands such as: Coke, McDonalds, Target, Adobe, Microsoft, Toyota, UPS, Yahoo, Shell, Home Depot, EMC, Sabre and many other house hold names.

Austin is no stranger to innovation in software development. In fact, our patron saint to gaming software development, Richard Garriott, started his businesses in Austin and he still lives here today. Mr. Garriott is arguably one of the founders and developers of an entire software industry. Truly a giant in the field (And if you are interested--Mr. Garriott's previous home is currently for sale...).

Another little know fact, Twitter emerged on the national social media radar here in Austin at the SXSW in 2007. Before Austin, very few people knew for sure why they would want to use this little social media tool--and look at where that little launch campaign took them...

If you are still wondering if Austin is a good bet--wonder no more. The train is leaving the station. Time to jump on board.   tT

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