SXSW has announced the finalists for its fifth annual SXSW Accelerator, a competition of forward-thinking web-based products. (We like to think of it as Tomorrowland meets the Hunger Games.) Broken down into an Interactive portion (March 11-12) and a Music one (March 13), the Accelerator competition features two minutes-long product demonstrations in front of a live audience and a panel of judges. OK, so not quite a death match scenario, but stressful stuff nonetheless. Still, the finalists already distinguished themselves out of 500 applicants to this year’s Accelerator, so, y’know, everybody’s a winner here, right?
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