Joseph Smarr
Social Web Engineer at Google

SXSWi is right around the corner. Why not kick it off with a bang at the Official SXSWi Happy Hour sponsored by Razorfish?

Join us on Saturday, March 12th, 2011, from 6-8PM at the Phoenix (409 B Colorado St). DJ Hot Sauce will be spinning the tunes to get you in the mood to party. And the open bar means there will be plenty of free drinks. But...

This is for participating locations in North America only. Arizona, Saskatchewan, Sonora, Greenland, Hawaii, and various islands off North America do not observe the time change.

And while you're changing your clocks, remember to check your smoke detector batteries. One third of all smoke detectors have dead, near dead or disconnected...

Be there, or check in on foursquare

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...

Join Gowalla, Livestrong, Sweet Leaf Tea and Diplo for an evening you won't soon forget. Before you just show up at the door though, there are some important details you must know.

¡MUY IMPORTANTE!

1) While the Tiki Room will be open to all SXSW Interactive, Gold and Platinum badge holders, we're expecting a packed house. We'll be...

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...

Mashable is proud to announce our 2nd Annual MashBash SXSWi, an evening celebration during Austin’s annual SXSWi festival. On Sunday, March 14th 2010 from 10pm till 1am, Mashable will be hosting an official SXSWi evening event at Buffalo Billiards in Austin, Texas, sponsored by Cliqset and Sony.

1,600 people will come and enjoy a night of...

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 -...

Babette Pepaj of BakeSpace.com and Nichelle Stephens from Cupcakes
Take The Cake will be in Austin for SXSW and we want to eat cupcakes with you!

Stop by The Tiniest Bar in Texas for cupcakes and you may win a KitchenAid mixer.

Sponsored by KitchenAid, Cupcakes Take The Cake is inviting bloggers,
startups, techies to come eat yummy cupcakes from...

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!

Tentative Agenda
2:00 - 2:30 PM - Registration
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Learn the latest from Facebook and local devs
3:30 - 5:30 PM - Drinks on us-- stay and mingle...

We're planning to have a Quora meetup @ SXSW on Sunday March 14 -- opening weekend Sunday. Lunchtime (12:30p), with food and booze. Location will be announced later.

Come join Digg & Revision3 for an evening of revelry, music & mayhem at world famous Stubbs BBQ. We're featuring a live Diggnation, great music from The Walkmen, and we've got a few more tricks up our sleeve - including some by Scam School host Brian Brushwood and more - but you'll have to show up to see. As always, this is a...

The emergence of the real-time web enables an unprecedented level of user engagement and dynamic content online. However, the rapidly growing audience puts new, complex demands on the architecture of the web as we know it. This panel will discuss what is needed to make the real-time web achievable.

From Facebooks newsfeed to Twitters relentless real-time updates, the metaphor of the "stream" has taken social networking beyond blog posts and on to rich social activities. Learn about ActivityStrea.ms - the open format adopted by Facebook, MySpace, and Windows Live - and how its fundamentally changing the social web.

Now in it's third year, Magnolia's Cafe is the place to start your SXSW experience in the company of friends, both new and old at "The SXSW Social Breakfast." Everyone is welcome, this is an open invitation to share breakfast at one of Austin's greatest Cafe's (or at least one of the greatest I've found in many...

{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,...