Social Media

22 posts

2018

Bikelash Trailer

July 8, 2018
A true story by Chris Bucchere / March 29th, 2012, 8:20am, Castro Street / When he regained consciousness, Chris found himself bloodied and bruised,…

The Post-Facebook Internet

April 17, 2018
The recent Facebook scandal—in which Cambridge Analytica obtained 50 million Facebook users' personal data—really shouldn't have been such a big…

Now that Facebook is going down in flames, I encourage you to post whatever...

March 20, 2018
you want

2011

Pathable Acquires The Social Collective

March 9, 2011
Pathable, the award-winning provider of social networking services for conferences and events, announced today that it is acquiring The Social…

2010

Why the New Gap Logo was Awesome

November 7, 2010
Ok, so not the logo itself. I'm not an idiot who thinks it was a well-designed logo or that crowdsourcing is healthy for the design community. Let's…

Oracle Announces Roadmap for Plumtree / AquaLogic / WebCenter

October 7, 2010
UPDATE 2: I've incorporated all the great feedback and comments from ex-Plumtreevians, ex-BEA and ex- and current Oracle folks. / UPDATE: A bunch of…

Sound Business Advice from Jerry Garcia

August 1, 2010
Today would have been Jerry Garcia's 68th birthday. Musically, politically, emotionally and spiritually, he has probably had more of an impact on me…

Was The Facebook Hacker Story Irresponsible Journalism?

July 30, 2010
This article originally appeared as a guest post on All Facebook. / The media scandal du jour relates to how WikiLeaks leaked all this classified…

2009

Crowd Campaign, The Social Contest Builder

November 16, 2009
(I-Newswire) November 16, 2009 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / New York, New York – November 16th, 2009 – At Web 2.0 Expo today, Social Collective, Inc.,…

Procrastinators Rejoice: OpenWorld's Social Schedule Builder is Live!

October 10, 2009
If you're attending Oracle OpenWorld and you've waited this long to build your event schedule, boy do we have some good news for you! / You can use…

Here We Go Again: SXSW 2010

August 26, 2009
I know it feels like we just put the wraps on SXSW 2009, but Panel Picker Voting is already live for 2010! This year they're using the Panel Picker…

The Social Collective to Provide Social Media Software for Experient's e4...

July 20, 2009
Today we are pleased to announce that Experient, Inc., a full-service solution provider for conferences and events, has chosen The Social Collective…

The Ultimate Cool Factor: Social Media Ideas from SXSW

March 28, 2009
Continuing their efforts as fine purveyors of "awesomesauce," those ebullient SocialFishes Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer interviewed Chris Bucchere…

SXSW Launches my.SXSW Powered by The Social Collective

February 2, 2009
Austin, Texas – February 2nd, 2009 – Today South By Southwest (SXSW), announced the launch of my.SXSW, the official social networking and scheduling…

There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

January 25, 2009
Today Robert Scoble wrote a really interesting and thought-provoking article on his blog about the alleged suspension/removal of Joel Comm's Facebook…

How to Convince Your Company to Pay for a SXSWi Pass

January 14, 2009
Times are tough, right? Everyone is slashing spending, especially around travel and conference budgets. But you need (read: want) to be at SXSWi. So…

BIL Conference 2009 Selects The Social Collective to Provide Conference...

January 13, 2009
(I-Newswire) - Long Beach, CA / The second annual BIL Conference, scheduled to take place on February 7th and 8th, 2009, announced today that they…

2008

Shameless Self-Promotion

August 19, 2008
At last year's SXSW I said to myself: "Self, you need to be speaking at this conference next year." / Help me fulfill my self-fulfilling prophecy and…

How the New Facebook Utterly Destroyed my Favorite Application (and Why That...

August 16, 2008
I used to love Feedheads. It's a simple, elegant and beautiful application that does one thing really well: help you share your Google reader shared…

Are Twitter Replies Fundamentally Broken?

August 13, 2008
Has anyone noticed that Twitter replies are fundamentally broken? Or, I should say, at least the "Replies" *tab* is jacked. / This isn't another…

Modular Page Assembly in Rails (Part 2)

June 16, 2008
In Part 1, I explained how you can develop clean, DRY and encapsulated MVC code that allows for completely modular page assembly in Ruby on Rails. /…

2007

Feedhaus Launches Public Alpha to Deliver Real-time Personalized News,...

October 9, 2007
Feedhaus announced today that it has released its social news site into public alpha to deliver real-time news, images and videos that are personally…