SXSW-bound? We’re psyched that so many of you have enjoyed connecting on our Cliqset-powered Mashable Austin Realtime site — but we’ve cooked up something else. It’s called the Crowd, and it will keep you in touch with all the activity around Austin throughout the conference. 
The Crowd serves you up a digestible summary of where and when SXSW attendees are hanging out and checking-in with a variety of social and geo services (Brightkite, Cliqset, Flickr, Foursquare, Gowalla, Qik, Twitter). With bar graphs lining the top of the Web application, the Crowd breaks down geo-activity by day and even by hour to display spikes in geo-check-ins. Or, you can choose to focus on where activity occurs, reflected in a giant Google map of Austin. Of course, you can toggle on and off these social services you’d like to view. By clicking on the orange dots across the Google map, indicating posted activities, you can check out not only the user who posted, but also the full status update, photo, or tweet.
So don’t wander around SXSW alone — sign up to the Crowd with Twitter or Cliqset and find out where the action is 
Or check out the late night tweets and check-ins that happened the night before. Just something fun for SXSW.
Filed under: social web | Tagged: Austin, brightkite, Foursquare, gowalla, lbs, sxsw, twitter
I really found this SXSW site that you did very interesting.
Are there similar things that are actually live now?
A couple of us are interested in seeing if we can pull off something similar for our small town based on events that happen here sporadically. ie. visiting? register for the site, publish your stream, see other visitors’ streams
Has anyone documented the process, or is this a one-off commercial endeavor you guys did?
We’ve taken a look at the cliqset developer resources, but they aren’t intuitive to us. Is there a way to develop our cliqset presence on the cliqset site and associate our and our friends’ Facebook, Twitter, etc. and then embed the resulting stream into our own website?
Maybe there is a forum we are missing where like-minded folks are discussing this?
Any chance you’d throw us a bone?
Thanks! And keep up the good work.
Bob D
State College, PA
Hi Bob. Ping me at darren cliqset com. Would love to chat.