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Here we have the oldest bike on the Mobile Social and the tallest. Bikinis too.

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I’m talking today with @livestrongCEO Doug Ulman @SXSW about Changing the World and Lives with Bikes:

This core conversation will talk about how cycling, the bike, and social media are changing the world and lives. You’ll learn about Livestrong’s community and Bike Hugger’s blog, events like the Mobile Social, and the millions who follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter. It’s a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools.

A core conversation is just Doug and no audio/visuals discussing the topic with the audience. It’s at 11:00 AM in Room 7. We’re both looking forward to it and seeing you there.

Last night Doug and I met, over a few beers, at the Livestrong party

also met Chris Sacca who told me a very funny fat-boy rides bike story — fat boy being him.

We’ll post on that one soon.

By all accounts, this was our best Mobile Social so far and we’ve got more coming with dates being announced soon in Toronto and Portland. This year, Cyclefilm made this film for us

I’m honestly too exhausted to write a big post (it was a long day). I just wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who came to our SXSW Mobile Social today. Here’s just a chunk of the people who showed up.

And here are some photos from my gallery, more coming from our other Huggers soon.

Snuggled comfortably into the Juan Pelota coffee shop inside of Mellow Johnny’s bike store, we’ve just checked in on the logistics of our Mobile Social event. The folks at MJ’s couldn’t be more gracious, which is why we like working with them so much.

If you’re in the Austin area for SXSW and have never seen the shop, come here and look around. It’s easily the prettiest bike store I’ve ever seen and it’s the only one with multiple Tour de France winning bikes hanging casually from the ceiling. While drinking my coffee smoothie I’m looking over at a wall full of signed yellow jerseys.

Unfortunately for my wallet, they’ve also just gotten in a shipment of Merino wool jerseys, and I’m buying one before I leave today. They will do nicely with my limited edition MJ’s mountain biking gloves.

Tomorrow we go all party-time-excellent on Mellow Johnny’s—they’ve been nice enough to give us their parking lot for a massive party. If you haven’t read about our event, check it out here.

Today starting at 2pm is TweetHouse, a big meeting of the “twiteratti” and other SXSW’ers and they’re setting up here at the shop, so if you were hoping to grab a nice carbon Madone, you might need them to move the stage to get access to it. But the District Carbon is available.

During SXSW, Jason will have this nifty gadget that turns him into a WiFi cloud. That’s right, he’s a cycling hotspot with Wimax bandwidth to share with you. He’s roaming around, attending the Mobile Social, various panels, and is quite happy to connect with you.

So when ATT’s 3G network crashes, find Jason.

The Jason Cloud is brought to you by our friends at Intel.

Before heading to Florida on a work trip several years ago I lay sprawled across my den with a giant road map of the area, a set of highlighters, a guide book and my laptop. A frequent traveler, I like to bring my folding bike with me, and I like to head out on bike rides between meetings or trade show stops.

As I looked up cycling routes in my guide book I’d compare them to a Google Map search of the area and then stencil in the most suitable rides with my various highlighters. Guidebook, Google, map, guidebook, Google map. It took me about two hours to sketch out the various trips from my hotel room to the surrounding environs, none of which would be necessary if Google Maps included the feature the company is rolling out today, a new bike layer with directions in major metropolitan areas.

Google, who is joining Bike Hugger at the Mobile Social in Austin at SXSW to talk about this exciting new feature (more on that in other posts) has taken a lot of time to develop the much-requested cycling layer for their popular Google Maps tool. No mere add-on, the new functionality provides cyclists with some impressive features thanks to an overhaul in how Google Maps works.

In many ways, Google’s technology will be more accurate and more detailed than anything that regional planning groups or municipal governments tend to provide as it will indicate not only state-designated or city-designated bike lanes and routes, but trails and other bike paths as well.

Google is joining the Mobile Social SXSW for the ride and party at Mellow Johnnys. Meet the developers who built the new bicycling layer for Google Maps.

Meet the Bike Map Makers

Google’s Bike Maps were built right here in Seattle by cyclists like us and for those of you in Austin for SXSW, you can ride with and meet the developers. Look for these shirts on the ride

and for Google at Mellow Johnnys.

More on Google Bike Maps:

• NY Times article with a quote from me
• Techflash article with another quote.

Howdy, from Austin, TX! I’m Jonathan Carroll, Community Manager, Biz Dev guy and all-around Killer Robot at Gowalla. I have the pleasure of guest-blogging today.

Gowalla is a location-based social service, and we think it’s the easiest way to share places you go with friends. It uses the GPS and location services on your mobile device to help you discover new places and events in your area, and is integrated with social platforms like Facebook and Twitter to make it easy to share with your friends. We’re partnering with Bike Hugger for the Mobile Social SXSW in Austin this year to create a sponsored trip using our service. A ‘trip’ on Gowalla is just a collection of spots you can visit that are all linked together and which, if all visited, reward the user with a special achievement pin. The trip we’ve implemented for the Mobile Social SXSW features just 3 spots, all of which will be easy to obtain on the group ride:

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Back from the Twitter Conference and next up it’s SXSW, Bike Expo, and then onto Mix 10 in Vegas. We ride wherever we go and you’re welcome to join us.

Austin

Our ride in Austin is part of the Mobile Social and we’re expecting 500+ cyclists. Look for this badge that identifies the Social Cycling ATX ride leaders, all 50 of them, and they’ll take you around Austin arriving at Mellow Johnnys for a party.

I arrive on Monday to speak Tuesday with @livestrongceo. We’re riding Tuesday morning. Not 500 of us, just a few and will announce more on Twitter.

A moment to mention our partners with thanks for bringing the Mobile Social to SXSW in 2010.

Mobile Social SXSW Partners	2010

The Mobile Social @sxsw is next weekend and it’s El Guapo, the Mucho Moso, where we do bike culture Texas style. We’ll ride around Austin arriving at Mellow Johnnys for a BBQ and Variety Show. If you’re not riding, that’s ok, just show up at Mellow Johnnys around 4 PM when all the MoSo magic goes down.

Details

• Event: SXSW 2010
• When: March 13, 2010, 2pm-6pm
• Where: Austin, Texas
• Who: SXSW Attendees, Austin Locals, cyclists
• RSVP now at Upcoming or Facebook
• Add to your SXSW Schedule

The SXSW Play App (launches iTunes) is available and includes a podcast with me and @livestrongceo Doug Ulman. The podcast is about the Changing the World, Lives, with Bikes Core Conversation we’re presenting on Tuesday

That’s after the Mobile Social during the opening weekend. You can find the podcast under the Greater Good category in the app. It’s also available as an MP3 file.

The two dudes in the photo are from our trip to India last year.

A new culinary cycling adventure series launches January 5th and features NYC in the first installment on pedaling.tv.

Whether it be a small village bakery, a fine restaurant, or simply a picnic at the right stopping point, food and drink have always played an integral role in cycling—not only because they fuel the work, but in many cases the culinary experience provides cyclists with some of their fondest and most enduring memories.

The web episodes also contain cycling tips, bike fitting, and more bike culture as the hosts ride through NYC’s culinary nook and crannies.

Trailer

We’d like to meet the producers Iri Greco and Jim Fryer and give them due props for putting this together. This project was obviously a massive amount of work.

Maybe they can bring pedaling.tv to Mellow Johnnys during SXSW and our Mobile Social? Lots of good eating and pedaling in Austin, Texas.

We’ll announce all the details of what we’re doing in 2010 with the Mobile Socials and more in the new year. For this week, the news is that Bike Hugger and Livestrong CEO Doug Ulman are talking together at SXSW about changing the world, lives, with bikes and Social Media:

This core conversation will talk about how cycling, the bike, and social media are changing the world and lives. You’ll learn about Livestrong’s community and Bike Hugger’s blog, events like the Mobile Social, and the millions who follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter. It’s a discussion of bikes, pop culture, and socializing the good with these Interweb tools.

A split in the group during the 2008 Mobile Social

A month earlier @FITC, I’m giving a similar talk. Hosting a bike culture panel during the Seattle Bike Expo too.

Amsterdam is the back drop for the MoSos in 2010 and the kickoff of our meetups on bikes. Then it’s onto Mellow Johnnys for SXSW.

Photo: a Shepard Fairey Mural in Amsterdam spotted during the Mobile Social Worldwide.

We’re already planning our return to SXSW with the Mobile Social 2010 and this year we’ve pitched Steal this Panel

“Pick this SXSW panel and we’ll get up there and talk about whatever the Twitter tells us to do via @replies and hash tags.”

If that gets picked, we’ll have lots of fun with it and observe how much game Twitter has changed socially, in cycling, and for business.

We can’t think of a better way to talk at SXSW than with audience participation. Of course, I’ll talk about what we do here at Bike Hugger and more.

Please give the panel a thumbs up. Voting closes this week on September 4th.

SXSW Panels you should pick because Bike Hugger is on them or will be on them, if enough of you pick them!

• Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Weight -- Twittering at the computer all day doesn't keep you in shape.

• Brandemonium: How Google Made Your Brand Irrelevant -- Brand in the Google economy.

• The Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog! -- Blog staying power.

• Bicycles in Film: From Silver Screen to iPhone -- From Edison to talkies to iPhones with video.

• How Cycling Embraced Social Media and then Reinvented It -- The Lance Factor in Social Media.

Update

On 8/31, another Bike Hugger-related panel is available on the Panel Picker.

• *Steal this Panel* -- pick this panel and we'll get up there and just talk about whatever the Twitter tells us to do via hashtags and @replies.

We're already planning our Mobile Social 2010 @ SXSW and it's huggier than ever.

Kristina Halvorson's book is out in two weeks. I spoke with Kristina on the Try Making Yourself More Interesting Panel at SXSW earlier this year. As we talked about then, interestingness is key to web charm, to awesomeness online, and we recommend you Do Epic Shit.

Anything epic requires a strategy, lots of work, and Kristina will teach you how to create meaningful content in Content Strategy for the Web.

Another Lance Art Bike, by Damien Hirst, has been spotted by fashion and media sites. We hope to see these bikes at Mellow Johnnys when we return to SXSW next year for another Mobile Social.

The Art Bikes are part of STAGES, "a global art exhibition to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer." Lance is racing on the Shepard Fairey Bike at le Tour.

Photo: Getty Images

More Art Bikes

• Shepard Fairey Bike!
• Marc Newsom Bike
• Pressure Drop