Infurious is the only Northern Ireland company attending SXSWi and we’re doing it out of our pocket and without any support from our local economic development agencies. Phil has been partying with the other revelers and marvelling at some of the technologies he’s seeing - real cutting edge stuff

…you should see the great stuff being done in HTML 5.0 and CSS. The amount of people doing web apps are unreal, even Photoshop style applications in HTML and only HTML.
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All so nice and fluid, and best about it, there all using Macs.

On top of that, he was interviewed by the BBC and has a feature on their web site

Infurious developed a Comic Reader application that uses the iPhone’s familiar touch interface to navigate between different panes of a comic.
The Comics Engine can also layer audio on to comic pages, embed movies and links to YouTube.
The reader also features multi-layered content pages so readers can find bonus artwork, footnotes and explainers.

Here’s a BBC pic of the man himself out in Austin.

Phil at SXSWi

As we speak, a dozen or more bands and musicians are heading out to SXSW for the week of music supported by Belfast City Council, the Creative Industries Innovation Fund and Invest Northern Ireland.

As we draw into March, we’re coming to the end of a particularly exciting deadline that has Phil pulling very long hours into perfecting. Phil is by far the most dedicated perfectionist I’ve met in a long time. And on Wednesday he’s heading West to Austin to SXSWi to talk, network and generally get involved.

As he’s stepping onto the plane I’m stepping off, arriving back in Northern Ireland. I leave tomorrow for a very quick trip to San Francisco for some iPhone-related stuff which will be very compelling for anyone in Northern Ireland and Ireland who recognises that the iPhone heralds a sea change in the way we interact with our computers. It’s the first but won’t be the last by far of these potentially intelligent mobile devices which we carry everywhere. I’ve a couple of really cool meetings to attend - including one in Cupertino so we’ll see what comes of them.

Infurious has always been about trying stuff that no-one else is doing. PJ is working hard with Stuart to perfect a new product that will knock your socks off as well. We’ve got some other stuff in the pipeline which, surprisingly, isn’t all about the code. It’s about art, education, health - the future. More later!

If you’re in SF and want to say Hi, I’m hitting the tarmac in SFO on Monday about 1 pm and skedaddling out again Wednesday around 3 pm.