Tim O'Regan

• MIMA Summit 2011 Recap: When was the last time you washed your phone? A look at the state of mobile in 2011

  The 2011 MIMA (Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association) Summit was the best I’ve been to yet. It featured the hilarious Googler Avinash Kaushik as the morning keynote and the renowned Chris Anderson as the mid-day keynote, but what I want to talk about is a mobile-focused... Read more

• SXSW: Tomorrow’s Business Model?

  One of the great things about SXSW is the opportunities it provides to challenge your expectations. When I first read about Blake Mycoskie’s keynote address in the schedule I was underwhelmed to say the least. “He’s a shoe salesman? This is gonna suuuuuuuuck,” I thought... Read more

• SXSW: Phil Zimmerman on Cryptography and Freedom in an Age of Constant Surveillance and Data Collection

  One of the best parts about SXSWi is the opportunity to hear brilliant minds who’ve made real changes to our world speak about our moment in time. Nerd hero Phil Zimmerman helped change the world back in 1991 when he released Pretty Good Privacy (PGP),... Read more

• Gonzo crashes SXSW, Day Five: Augmented Reality, Music Licensing and Journalism

  After breaking out of jail around midnight Gonzo ran through the desert whilst being trailed by helicopters full of mutant cyborgs with automatic weapons and deadly aims. Somehow he shook his pursuers and attended one last day of SXSWi, encoding this information and copying to... Read more

• Gonzo crashes SXSW, Day Four: Unconsumption and the Twitter/Ev Williams Keynote Debacle

  Gonzo’s adventures continued another day regardless of the fact that his face was on Wanted posters around town and a posse of lawmen were scouring the countryside for his hide. Even the livestock equipped with heat-seaking missiles coundn’t keep Gonzo from delivering the following nuggets... Read more

• Gonzo crashes SXSW, Day Three: Twitter & Iran, Facebook Gaming and Web Awards

  Despite being pursued by a pack of starved and rabid wild dogs, our tireless blogger Gonzo was able to crash Day 3 of SXSW and bring back these illicit insights: 2009 Iran Election: Women’s Revolution or Twitter Revolution? The panel was moderated by Shireen Mitchell... Read more

• Gonzo crashes SXSW, Day Two: Activity Streams, Privacy & The Death of the New York Times

  Despite a restraining order and a team of professional bounty-hunters tracking his trail, intrepid Social Studies blogger Gonzo was able to infiltrate SXSWi on Day Two in order to smuggle back the following illicit information: A few of the panels I attended were the same... Read more

• Gonzo crashes SXSW: What are Analytics? A Guide to Practical Data

  Through a glitch in the Matrix, intrepid blogger Gonzo was able to secure access to South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) badge and airfare down to sunny Austin, TX. Before he was tackled by security, tagged & bagged and hauled off the county jail he was... Read more

• The revolution will be Twittered: tools to monitor events in Iran

  We don’t know what to call the events occurring in Iran — an election? a coup? a revolution? an uprising? It’s being called The Twitter Revolution and some are saying the formula is: Tiananmen + Twitter = Tehran. Whatever you want to call it, it’s... Read more

• DiggBar takes over the universe

  Digg.com, the most popular social news aggregator in the known universe, has unveiled its new DiggBar. The DiggBar is six tons of awesome squeezed into a small package. Here are the cool things it does: Makes Digging up stories easier — you can do it... Read more