Scott, you know what a ridiculous fan I am of your photos, so to see some of mine up here just blew my mind a little. It was amazing to finally get to meet you and hang out :)

Max, to respond to your “nothing revolutionary about twittermob” comment, here’s my take. What’s revolutionary is that most people on twitter are self-assembled into groups around people we like and admire, but also with lots of cross-connection between.

Instead of a “one to many” mass sms broadcast (something which is still rare here in the states) messages flow in many ways along the twitternet. Since the MO of twitter is to tell people what you’re up to, information radiates out from the central sources and is repeated by others. By the time of the party at gingerman, I’d heard from dozens of my twitter connections that they were planning on attending. If you weren’t convinced to come by the first message about the party, the third or fourth mention probably helped persuade you. It allows groups of people to reach a quorum quickly, and ideas (like Scott’s microsponsorship idea) to spread like wildfire.

It’s a very interesting phenomenon to watch happen, and it certainly made SXSW more enjoyable this year, if only because I knew what my friends were up to :)