Jason Kincaid
Mild-mannered reporter at TechCrunch

Friends,

Whim Quarterly invites you to kick off the holiday season with a themed-edition of Trivial Matters, the bar quiz extravaganza from America's favorite flammable magazine.

Join your hosts, Whim's own Brock Mahan and Greg Volk, next Tuesday, November 29th, for six rounds of questions testing your knowledge of the holidays that...

RAIN OR SHINE!

***CLAIMING LIGHTSABERS***

We will have the lightsabers in two piles: First Name A - K, First Name L - Z. If you used an organization when signing up for PayPal, it will be under that name. Please show up AT LEAST half an hour before the battle begins. If you do not claim your saber by 9:15, it may be given away. NO REFUNDS will be...

July 19th Throughout History:

1692: Five accused witches are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts

1879: Gunfighter Doc Holliday kills his first man in New Mexico

2011: Whim Quarterly presents Serious Matters #4 in New York. No one dies. Probably. Possibly. Let's wait and see.

Anyway, if you have a sense of humor and a cavalier attitude toward...

This Friday we pay homage to the hipster counter culture of San Francisco.

Come in your best Persol lenses, stressed jeans, flannel and anything with a bird on it.

We'll serve PBR and play bands that don't even exist yet, because we're ironic but deep, and don't care what you say.

Let's start SXSW right with a yearly tradition - predrinks at the Driskill hotel bar.

Every year at SXSW we start off the weekend with a couple relaxing drinks in the historic Driskill hotel bar. If you've never been there's no time like the present to get in on this tradition. Stay as long as you want, there are no rules. Its just...

f8 is officially sold out. Please become a fan of the f8 Page (www.facebook.com/f8) to continue getting updates and tune into the live stream.

What's f8?
f8 is a Facebook conference where developers and entrepreneurs collaborate on the future of personalized and social technologies.

At f8, members of the Facebook team and the developer...

(mt) Media Temple brings you the official SXSWi closing party once again! Help us make 2010 the most awesome (mt)+SXSWi blow out ever! Experience the party Tuesday, March 16th at the Mohawk.

Local and location are all the rage right now, and its become clear that sooner rather than later every app in the world, big or small, mobile or not, will have mapping and geolocative abilities baked right in. So what about yours? This panel will cover the ins and outs of...

Much has been said about the death of journalism, but little has been offered in way of solutions. This panel will focus on solutions instead of problems, consensus viewpoints from both old and new media, and offer new insights into the operational structure of journalism and media for the 21st century....

SXSW Interactive is excited that Daniel Ek will participate in a keynote interview at 2:00 pm on Tuesday, March 16. The 26-year-old CEO and co-founder of the innovative online music service Spotify, Ek has been characterized as a serial entrepreneur. He started his first company in 1997 at the age of...

Those who dont understand history are doomed to repeat it. Control the destiny of your business and technology by mastering the early detection of elusive patterns of growth - and decline. Learn the five dangerous curves so you can understand where you are, whats next, and how to avoid common pitfalls....

Theres never been a more challenging-yet exciting-time to be a journalist. Journalism Next, a guidebook for digital reporting and publishing, explains how to use the latest software, tools, and concepts, empowering journalists to harness technology and take control of their futures in journalism.

Join forces with "Rackers" for the Rackspace Revolution party hosted at Maggie Mae’s featuring live entertainment, great food and beverages and fabulous giveaways.

Our devices know which way were moving and how dark it is outside. They look us in the face with cameras while were tweeting away. They sometimes even understand when we talk back to them. Learn about success stories and untapped potential in physical interactivity that doesnt involve touching anything at...

Over the past twenty years, technology has morphed the computer into a TV. Now, with the emergence of Internet-connected TVs, widgets, and access to free content sites like Hulu, is the TV becoming a computer? This session will examine the key technological and business issues that are shaking up the traditional...

The Seed Combinator is the concept of mashing up angel investing, OpenCoffee Club meetups, tactical workshops, and Coworking that is giving rise to a new class of software and new media startups. Local investors are giving aspiring entrepreneurs capital and intensive mentorship under names like YCombinator, TechStars and Capital Factory. The...

Williams has co-founded several Internet companies, including Pyra Labs (creator of weblog-authoring software Blogger) and Twitter, the now ubiquitous social media platform that hit its tipping-point at SXSW in 2007. In addition to his role as Director of the Havas Media Lab, Umair Haque founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique...

Pandora dipped its toe in the mobile waters for the first time three years ago. After experimenting with dozens of "feature phone" implementations in partnership with Sprint and AT&T for over a year, everything changed with the launch of Pandora for iPhone. With 50 million listeners, Pandora quickly turned their attention...

Join PBS, NPR, FRONTLINE, ITVS, FUTURESTATES, ReadWriteWeb and Blogads @KLRUs Legendary Austin City Limits Studio. Live music, Tex-Mex, Margaritas. Streamed live on video.pbs.org/sxsw (Free shuttles at the Hilton).

Come join us for the first annual Geobash at SXSW!

Hot Potato (http://hotpotato.com), SimpleGeo (http://simplegeo.com) and Yowza!! (http://getyowza.com) are hosting the mother of all benders.

Featuring musical performances from:
SAVOY - http://www.myspace.com/savoyband
Shinobi Ninja - http://www.myspace.com/shinobininjamusic
McAlister Drive -...

A conversation with Gmail team members. Hear from engineers, user experience, and product managers about how they work together, what theyve learned over the years, and how they see online communication evolving.

Join the Facebook team and local developers for a deep dive into the latest and most exciting ways developers are building with Facebook technologies. Come to learn, stay to make friends! http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=331218348435

The Google Hackathon hosted by Google will provide a hands-on workshop throughout the day where attendees will be able to build apps using a variety of Google technologies including App Engine, HTML5, Android, Chrome, and Maps/Geo technologies. Although the hackathon will run all day long (from 9:30-7:00pm), well be providing short...