Michael Macasek
Kicking ass at oneforty

I'm turning 24, obviously this should be celebrated with a *few* drinks.

OK, the bar crawl will have a Porter(ish) to Central Sq trajectory.

1. Cambridge Common @ 7PM (also dinner will be here if you're hungry at the start)
2. Tommy Doyle's (buy the GroupOn today, 4/21! http://www.groupon.com/r/uu854000)
3. People's Republik...

The magazine world is in turmoil. Between 2007 and 2010, 1684 magazines have folded, including bona fide institutions, like Gourmet. Those left standing, however, are finally getting up the innovation curve. But what a curve - in their expensive (and top-heavy!) quest for glossy perfection, magazines have fumbled at creating compelling...

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...

Increasingly impressive HTML5 Canvas-based graphics, animation, and interaction have some proponents claiming that Canvas can do everything Flash can do -- but without the plug in. But what about browser support? Performance? Is Canvas really ready to dethrone Flash?

Community-focused culture is changing relationships between companies and customers and how they work together. Customers/users are becoming community members, a more active role beneficial to everyone involved. Well discuss evolving customer service, integration into company culture, adoption curve, different challenges depending on...

Cities abound in data generated by their inhabitants (virtual worlds, city websites) and created automatically by systems or monitoring. How does this online manifestation of the city interact in tangible ways with urban design and informal urban constructs? Is there such a thing as "the street as platform"?

Design usually focuses on making the world around us better - optimism often rules the roost in our industry. But what might happen if we forced ourselves to design for a catastrophic or dystopian future? Can we learn something by designing for a darker side of human experience?

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...

Check in with Gowalla at the Belmont and journey across the Pacific to the amazing Tiki Room. Fill the night with remarkable people, tropical kitsch and the stunning sound of Diplo. This will be your best chance at landing a legendary Gowalla t-shirt so bring a few spare greenbacks and help...

Join us for happy hour drinks and appetizers at Buffalo Biliards and get your geek on. Happily sponsored by Rackspace, Capital Thought, and Gowalla!

Party is limited to the first 250 guests who arrive - please let us know if you can come.

As the dust settles and the devastation is catalogued, the strategy of rebuilding Haiti is underway, and tech is at the center of it. Hear up-to-the-minute updates from on the ground demonstrating how transitional education and healthcare solutions are being developed and applied in Port au Prince and beyond, and how...

This panel features the founders of the "indispensable" Twitter apps. The purpose is twofold: 1) Enable Twitter users to hear "straight from the horses mouths" about the creation and use of key Twitter applications; 2) Provide inspiration for other Twitter developers.

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...

What happens when people can work anywhere - home offices, coffee shops, libraries, coworking spaces? With mobile computing, telecommunications, and broadband, knowledge workers are choosing new work arrangements and self-organizing in looser, more transient arrangements. Well discuss these broad trends and what they mean for work, using coworking...

From discovering galaxies to folding proteins: how to actively contribute to science. Science projects are harnessing open collaboration to further discovery and exploration. As a result, citizen science is witnessing a renaissance. The panel will discuss how you can get involved and challenges faced in making science open.

Join the speakers, organizers and attendees of Big Omaha to party with the up-and-coming entrepreneurs and innovators based on the Silicon Prairie. There are big things happening on the Prairie and heres the opportunity to connect with those making an impact!

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.

The Block Party, modeled after the popular pub crawl, was so popular last year that were bringing it back to the 2010 Trade Show. Mix and mingle with exhibitors in a festive atmosphere while enjoying complimentary appetizers and beverages.

New faceted search engines are emerging that promise smarter and more personalized results that take advantage of the Semantic Web. Do they deliver, and what do these engines mean for traditional search? How can obstacles such as scalability and diverse content provisioning platforms be overcome for Semantic Search to succeed?

HTML5 is coming. Originally called "web applications 1.0", it brings new semantics, JavaScript APIs for drag and drop, offline storage, generating images, plugin-free video and form validation. Its upset semantic web advocates, accessibility evangelists and baffled developers. Cut through the crap: learn what it is and what it does.

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