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Who were the winners of Eurovision 2013?

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Just because you finish first does not mean you were the actual winner… even at The Eurovision Song Contest: To decide who was this year’s biggest winner, you have to actually define what it means to ‘win Eurovision’. It’s not as simple as finishing in first place on the Saturday night. While ‘Only Teardrops‘ is going to stay in the Song Contest record books, after the National Final guest appearances with a playback tape, it’s unlikely we’ll hear again from Emmelie de Forest. While you can still hear ‘Euphoria‘ on the beaches of São Paulo, Denmark’s 2013 winner will be

Who won SXSW Interactive with 160 characters?

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For some reason, nobody has anointed a mobile app as ‘winning’  SXSW this year. Let me correct that, over on Forbes. After five days of SXSW Interactive, five nights of SXSW Music, and countless screenings at SXSW Film, my smartphone isn’t quite sure what just happened. More used to being beside the keyboard on my desk, it was flung into a high impact, bandwidth limited, battery sapping, content heavy event. And now I’m ready to tell you which app was the killer mobile app of SXSW.