Jason Aiken

Purchase your tickets for the Green Ball today for just $100 each! http://www.foe.org/green-ball. Join Jayni and Chevy Chase on Friday, May 21st at 1 Fort Mason in San Francisco, benefiting the work of Friends of the Earth.

Groove to music from Moonalice, a band whose members have played with Jefferson Starship, Rod Stewart, the Flying Other...

Whats next for social games? What does it take to build an MMO that everyone will play? Can you teach Farmville fans how to play an MMO? Or get devoted World of Warcraft players passionate about a social network game? Susan Wu, CEO and co-founder of gaming industry pioneer, ohai!, shares...

Software as a Service is more about service than software. Great software companies today have great customer support. If you want to succeed in this industry, learn how to do it right from these customer support rock stars.

Weve all had them - TERRIBLE MANAGERS. Nit-picky, micromanaging, douche bags who have no idea what you do or how its done. They drive you crazy and make your life miserable. Then one day you get a promotion and all of the sudden youre ONE OF THEM! Dont panic, therere lots...

This discussion will examine the role of crowd-sourced input on the creative process. We will examine art, comics, design, photography and commerce, and the role that the audience plays in directing their creation. We will make a distinction between passive decision-making (i.e. Threadless) and participatory conception (i.e. 700 Hobos Project.)

Usability? Meh. Lets talk about persuasion. Are you designing serendipity, arousal, rewards and other seductive elements into your applications? Well discuss specific ways that sites like Dopplr, iLike and LinkedIn leverage basic human psychology to motivate and shape online behaviors.

Join Shutterstock and Bigstock for an open bar happy hour and special guest DJs. Stop by the Shutterstock or Bigstock booth to get your free V.I.P. pass.

Join us for happy hour drinks and appetizers at Cedar Door and learn what we are working on at Mozilla. Party is limited to the first 250 guests who arrive - please RSVP here!

Communities of skilled people can serve as platforms for sourcing ideas, work, and solutions across industries. But how can we ensure that the new era of crowdsourcing actually empowers those that participate? There are dangerous trends in the world of crowdsourcing, and some principles are required to make this new ecosystem...

{RV}IP was born out of a desire to celebrate independent film, music, and technology through the combined forces of karaoke, carpooling, and spontaneous rockage. Ning is the social platform for interests and passions — including karaoke, carpooling, and sponaneous rockage.

Join us at SXSW Interactive for karaoke, mayhem, cocktails,...

Ustream and SXSW invite you to stream your way to an exclusive one night only sensory experience featuring a live performance by one of the world's most renowned recording artists and additional special guests. Party is limited to the first 500 badgeholders to arrive. RSVP here and be sure to tell your friends!

Kick off SXSW with the second annual Tocquigny marketing meet and greet. Enjoy panoramic views of Austin from 17 stories up and network with fellow innovators. Learn more and vote for our signature party drink here: www.tocquigny.com/sxsw

ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income

This panel will discuss how to run a startup without a technical cofounder. For people who just have passion but cant code shit, this panel is about what to do. Fake it til you make it. We still are.

We design websites for users, but if we dont also have a deep and thorough grasp of the content that will be served up to those users, were not going to be able to create optimal experiences for them. Learn how to do Content Research to augment your User Research.

Armed with laptops and smartphones, audiences are no longer sitting still at conferences like SXSW - instead theyre using Twitter and social media to create a backchannel and start their own conversations while the presenter is talking. Is this a good thing? Or a does it spell the end of presentations?...

Learn to look further than Twitter and Facebook when it comes to using social media to help your business succeed on the web. Learn solid strategies, how to measure success, and all the tools you need to succeed in the fastest growing marketing medium on the web.