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The Crunchies Awards celebrate the best tech accomplishments of 2011. Co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, we will announce winners from 20 different award categories live on stage at the event. We will have special guest appearances and entertainment too.
The ceremony is to be held on Tuesday January 31, 2011 at 7:30 pm at the Louise M...

Are you building the next Facebook or Google? Startup World is a global competition to find the next Jobs or Zuckerberg. The competition will be held in 36 cities world-wide, the regional winners will fly to Silicon Valley for a grand showdown to battle it out in front of a panel of expert judges to be crowned the world's best startup.

Much...

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THIS IS at Basil Canteen.
It is at Folsom and 11th Street.
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It is next door to Slim's. BUT not at Slims

Cost = $0
It is actually negative in cost in that if you buy a badge today. Purchase a badge for interactive between 7:01pm and 8:59pm and get a Basil Canteen dinner on me for free.

Who: People...

It's that time of year again - holiday dinners, holiday spirit and, of course, holiday parties! Trendy Lime is excited to be entertaining its global fans with a tri-continental series of Holiday parties this year ...

The #1 European Internet event, where 3000 entrepreneurs, leaders, investors, bloggers, journalists from 60 countries will gather together for 3 days in Paris. LeWeb brings together the most influential audience in the Internet ecosystem. Top industry entrepreneurs, executives, investors, senior press & bloggers gather to focus on the key...

Hey San Francisco! gdgt live is returning home. Join us at 7pm on Thursday, December 1st at The Metreon for the gdgt live party and meetup! This is event is free and open to the public. You don't want to miss this, especially since we'll have free gdgt t-shirts and cellphone cases for the first few hundred people who show up, plus a bunch...

Structure is GigaOM’s flagship conference on Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure, bringing together the most influential thinkers in the space for two days. Be sure to join us.

TEDxSF seeks to develop and leverage the TED experience at a regional level, bringing together innovators and inspirational speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marissa Mayer (Google) to Keynote Social-Loco.

[get the Plancast 20% discount] http://bit.ly/i66XaQ

Other companies speaking include:
- Groupon
- JiWire
- Facebook
- 4sqr
- Bing
And get ready, here's comes the Social-Loco pitch competition.

We'll dive into social and mobile web convergence, and what that means for SMB, big brands and...

Buy your ticket to the hottest food and wine event of 2011 and help fight childhood hunger! Buy your ticket here: http://bit.ly/e9MZtW

Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation is the nation's premier culinary benefit, featuring top chefs and mixologists -- all of whom are coming together to donate their time, talent and passion to end...

The Data 2.0 Conference connects over 50 speakers, company and startup demos and 500+ participants around in the new data economy. From Google Fusion Tables and SimpleGeo, to Socrata and Rapleaf, Data 2.0 organizes the top data innovators.

Register here: http://data2con.com/register/
Get 25% off by registering before March 25.
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Join us for our big launch of TransferBigFiles.com.

Eat, Drink, network and party with your closest tech friends!

We'll be joined by Live 105's @MilesTheDJ, spinning throughout the night. Skyy Vodka will be hosting the bar, Eye-Fi will be taking photos in real time, and we'll be serving appetizers throughout the night.
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Jude Gomila on Nailing the Pitch Meeting
Jude Gomila is currently co founder of Heyzap (Union Square Ventures and Y Combinator funded in 2009). Heyzap has raised over $4M in financing from some of the best investors in the US. During his final year of University he started Sugar Global, a digital photo frame brand, making sales to UK stores...

The 4th Annual Virtual Goods Summit is returning to San Francisco. Last year's event attracted more than 500 executives and entrepreneurs from the free-to-play, virtual goods, and social gaming spaces for a day and a half of talks and panels. This year's event will feature top-notch speakers and panels focused on the most important issues...

DJs: Manju Masi (Atish Mehta + Mark Slee).

Parking: Complimentary parking for the event at 350 2nd St. (btwn Folson & Harrison).

Food: pizza and sandwiches in the early evening.

Conference site: http://www.mediabistro.com/smartphonegamessummit/?c=spfb

The Smartphone Games Summit is a single day conference focused on the emerging smartphone games space. The conference will bring together leading developers, investors, and executives from around the globe to share their collective wisdom on what's working today and...

Reinvent Your Business: Innovate with unique mobile offerings and understand key mobile metrics

Think Mobile moves west! Join us on September 23 at our first west coast Think Mobile event, a conference that explores the broadening mobile ecosystem, the application marketplace, and the innovation that drives the industry.

The mobile industry...

Location will be emailed at 9am, July 15 to properly RSVP'd people at http://bit.ly/vc0715

Whether it's social games, social news, social discovery, social search, or other forms of social solutions, developers today are facing new hurdles in building instantly scalable products. As new technologies emerge to address the challenges faced by social application developers, it's increasingly important to come together for...

The Year of the Cloud

Structure is back for its third year, and as the industry has grown, so have we! Structure 10 introduces a two-day format to accommodate demand for more content and networking time. Join us June 23–24, 2010, in San Francisco, as we shape the future of the cloud industry.

Cloud computing has caught the technology world’s...

Please join us for the summer kick-off event for Silicon Valley Tweet-Up, which we're hosting in conjunction with Silicon Valley Young Professionals. We're also moving to a new great location for this event -- the Silicon Valley Capital Club in downtown San Jose.

With this event we will raise money for Hope Services, a nonprofit agency...

Weeee’re back!

This time join us for singing, dancing, and drinks back at The Parlor! This place has the regular Wednesday night karaoke so TKSF June Edition is crashing the party!

The Parlor has been newly remodeled as some of you may remember it back in the day when it was The Dirty Martini. So come check out the newly remodeled space and...

Join Mashable for an informal open gathering after Google I/O on Thursday, May 20th starting at 8:00 PM at the Roe Nightclub in San Francisco. Come hang with the Mashable SF team, including Founder/CEO Pete Cashmore, Social Media & Tech Reporter Jolie O’Dell, and Co-Editor Ben Parr!

MashMeet San Francisco will be an open networking event —...