SXSW 2010: The Location Services Showdown

Nick O'Neill — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:28:00 +0000

Days into SXSW it’s clear that location based services are fighting to take the lead spot as the thousands of Interactive festival attendees are all using the location products. Foursquare and Gowalla are competing for the top spot, but by now it’s clear that Foursquare has become the defacto service despite Gowalla’s strikingly good looks. Whrrl, a service that you probably can’t remember how to spell the first time around, has street teams trying to get users to install their app.

As everyone LBS fights for the attention of individuals who they believe and probably are the early adopter audience, it has become increasingly clear that 2010 may very well be the year that location based services hit the tipping point. While it’s still too early to tell, most attendees at this year’s SXSW have adopted at least one of the products.

To help illustrate the current battle, most of which is taking place between Foursquare and Gowalla, the team at JESS3 put together the following illustration. With both companies hosting their parties on the same night at this year’s SXSW, the battle between the two companies is becoming fierce. Will party attendees determine the fate of the two companies? Definitely not, but at least we have a nice picture to illustrate the main event at SXSW 2010!

C-SPAN Gets Social for the Dem Convention

Nick O'Neill — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:46:18 +0000

Have you been paying attention to the Democratic National Convention? It’s pretty much the only thing in the news for the entire week so if you haven’t heard about it you have probably been living under a rock (or some similar form of shelter). There are a bunch of sites covering the events but when it comes to the mainstream press there aren’t many doing a great job as it applies to social media.

If you haven’t read about it elsewhere, C-SPAN in partnership with JESS3 (who is also drives the images of the Social Times) and New Media Strategies released a site which has full coverage of the convention from C-SPAN as well all other sources around the web. It is not a single sourced coverage but is instead an aggregation of everything which is going on around the country.

The site is significant because it places blogs on the same platform as traditional media. For the boring old C-SPAN, this site appears to be a complete shift from the company’s more traditional past. Included in the site are live streams from QIK and best of all an aggregator of all the Twitter activity surrounding the DNC as well as the RNC. The difference between this and Politweets, another political Twitter aggregator, is that this site has a basic level of statistics about the tweets taking place.

Take a look at the DNC08 Twitter Page to see more DNC coverage. As the coverage concludes later this week, look to the site to give full coverage of the RNC convention. It’s a competition between the parties for building the most buzz and we are only half way through the process. This week the Democrats have taken the stage, continue to watch the coverage through next week on the RNC Convention Hub.

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SXSW 2010: The Location Services Showdown

C-SPAN Gets Social for the Dem Convention