For noobs, SXSW Interactive can feel like the first day at a new high school. The five-day event is thick with primordial webs of friendships, rivalries, and social strata which, to the new comer, are as simultaneously palpable and inscrutable as the lunch room hierarchies of yore. Rest assured howe...

About a week and a half ago, the Republican party held their Tech Summit 2009 (the first ever), aiming to create a real 2.0 strategy to help the party reach out to voters. “When we get to 2010, I want my campaigns here,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said as he h...

BBMNation BBMNation is a social network that, like most BlackBerry social networks, uses PINs to connect users. Designed by a night club promoter named Steven Ojo and his partner Alex Trumpower, the site launched about a year ago. The site is incredibly bare bones, and has a graphical style reminisc...

We do an annual look into the size of the mobile industry here at the Communities Dominate blog. So its time to review the growth of mobile and report on the technology that has 4 Billion subscribers. Recognizing that the world has about 6.6 Billion people, it means there is a mobile phones su...

As we announced yesterday, Google has released Latitude, its extension to Google Maps which allows you to share your location with your friends. Here are ten reasons why I think it will succeed… 1. It’s Google. They are big, they are a verb, they are well known and well trusted. Although...

We’re back at SXSW this year with the Bike Hugger Mobile Social and Byron’s joining the Make Yourself More Interesting Panel to talk about Doing Epic Shit. Adding to the collective experience this year, SXSW has launched my.sxsw.com and for the noobs, a 101 course....

Intro from the head of the HCI department at the University, talking about facilities they have available for rent. Interesting, I hear a lot about this from Sussex folks too - universities finding a new role for themselves in the world of commerce, perhaps? Introduction, Scott Weiss Does a poll of ...

Maybe this is old news, but it’s new to me, or at least the domain is new. China Mobile launched a social network at 139.com. The service is said to be live since September, originally on a domain hard to remember. You don’t need to register to the service as long as you have a mobile ph...

For the longest time, I figured Twitter was little more than a social toy. But after signing up two months ago, I’ve completely changed my view. Here are five lessons I’ve picked up. 1. There are many ways to use it. Twitter asks the question, “What are you doing?” Some peopl...

I read this article by Tim O’Reilly called “Why I Love Twitter” and it has some good points. Specifically: “Following” instead of “Friending” - in my opinion, only true/proper social networks that are primarily about social interactions (like Facebook or MyS...