Bikelash Trailer
A true story by Chris Bucchere / March 29th, 2012, 8:20am, Castro Street / When he regained consciousness, Chris found himself bloodied and bruised,…
Social Media
2018
The Post-Facebook Internet
The recent Facebook scandal—in which Cambridge Analytica obtained 50 million Facebook users' personal data—really shouldn't have been such a big…
2011
Pathable Acquires The Social Collective
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
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
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
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?
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
(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!
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
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...
Today we are pleased to announce that Experient, Inc., a full-service solution provider for conferences and events, has chosen The Social Collective…
Unleashing the Ultimate Cool Factor: Case Studies of Conferences Energized...
Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer (from SocialFish) shared the stage with Chris Bucchere and Susan Mernit on a panel at NTC (the Nonprofit Technology…
Free Breakfast Seminar in Alexandria, VA on 4/9
Join association thought leader Jeff DeCagna, Chris Hopkinson of DC-area startup DubMeNow and Chris Bucchere of The Social Collective for a free…
The Ultimate Cool Factor: Social Media Ideas from SXSW
Continuing their efforts as fine purveyors of "awesomesauce," those ebullient SocialFishes Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer interviewed Chris Bucchere…
Testmonials from Twitter
Our lead developer, Michael Buckbee, put together this great collection of un-prompted testimonials from tweeps who enjoyed using my.SXSW, powered by…
My SXSW Panel: Social Networks for the Anti-Social
UPDATE: SXSW released a complete audio recording of this panel! / I'm at SXSW again this year. I attended SXSWi last year and, if my memory serves me…
my.SXSW Goes Mobile
South by Southwest (SXSW) Music, Film and Interactive Conferences and Festivals has launched the official mobile social networking and scheduling…
You Are What You Eat
I've never really understood the phrase, "You are what you eat." If it were true, I'd probably be an In-N-Out burger (double double animal style) or…
Feedback Loop
We've been keeping a close watch on what people are saying about my.SXSW and trying to respond to as much of the feedback as possible, either…
SXSW Launches my.SXSW Powered by The Social Collective
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
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
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...
(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
I Don't Even Like Radiohead, But. . . .
I wouldn't consider myself a Radiohead fan. But what they just did is about to turn the music industry on its head . . . again. Check out this…
Shameless Self-Promotion
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...
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…
Nobody's Gonna Read This (and Why That Makes Me Happy)
Boy do I love the fact that no one reads this blog. And to the few people who are exceptions to that general rule -- thank you for being so…
Are Twitter Replies Fundamentally Broken?
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)
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,...
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…