The 2009 Boston Gravity Summit was held, surprisingly, in the home of traditional ideals, the Harvard University Alumni Club. The dark woodwork, winding staircases, private dining rooms and original artwork on the walls seemed an unlikely place for new media content delivery. But the hosts allowed the Boston social media scene to descend upon [...]

I saw a lack of data-driven content in last year’s SXSW and hope these ideas will fill some of that void. I don’t have a free pony or even a case of Red Bull to give to you if you vote for these panels, but I do havesome themes that should spark passionate debate [...]

<sarcasm>Shocker.</sarcasm>
Trent was a vocal advocate for spam controls in twitter. Twitter users know that twitter is not going to implement a big new feature like that in the near future. He announced back in June that he was leaving. He came back in July to announce his last shows and to talk to Dave Navarro. [...]

Meg Porter who most of us knew as @megapixel was recently killed in a car crash.

She was 24, smart, funny, snarky and had infinite potential. Don’t take life for granted. Make every day count. I think she did.

An Epic Event / Themes of Social CRM
I attended Radian 6 and Chris Brogan’s the Rockstars of Social CRM event last night. The panel had some of the heavy hitters of Social Media and CRM. Marcel LeBrun, CEO of Radian 6, Frank Eliason who you know better as @comcastcares, Paul Greenberg, Author of CRM at [...]

People complain about #FollowFriday because people just throw out a bunch of names without giving any reason to follow the people on the list. My solution has been to provide a reason or theme with each person I recommend. For instance,
#followfriday @agrahamwilcox <- Must follow for NBA fans
Today, Brad Ward decided to take it all [...]

Back on 4/17/2009, Oprah Winfrey tweeted for the first time. Although officially she joined twitter in January, she held out until spring until she could schedule time to have twitter founder Evan Williams on her show to make a media event out of her first tweet. I’m using the term First Tweet to mean [...]

Starbucks VIA Instant Starbucks from Schneider Mike on Vimeo.
Guy Kawasaki was hanging out in the blogger’s lounge early one morning at SXSW. He had a coy smile and announced that he had something cool that we would all love. As a result, I got to try Starbucks VIA! Thanks Guy!

Twitter is a news source, an early alert system, a social network, a geo tracking tool, an education necessity, a reputation monitoring system, a political campaign tool, a rumor mill, a PR platform, a brand personifier, a help desk, a product review source, a polling system, a direct marketing tool, a classified ad, a sports [...]

WTF?
At SXSW, I sat in a session with some of the brilliant minds in interactive experience creation including: Victoria Ha from Stitch Media, Phil Stuart of Preloaded, Mark Pytlik of Stink Digital and Rick Webb from the Barbarian group. They wasted a good 10 minutes of the panel discussing the classification of games versus experiential [...]