Michael Staton
My idealism and ambition was once slain but is slowly resurfacing.

What happens when you mix IBM-Eames inspired art, the d.school spirit, Dale, and Dan? A powerhouse of energy, collaboration, and radical openness.

Dale started the UnCollege movement and is a finalist for Peter Thiel's 20 Under 20. Dan is one of the masterminds behind Think Outside, and is kicking off the first Think Outside incubator this...

It's like your phone-wallet-baby got into the liquor cabinet!

The Venmo team is coming out to San Fran and we are hosting a happy hour to meet our users!

We want to thank you for using Venmo, hear your feedback, and just have a good time.

$2 drinks available through Venmo.

Like us on Facebook for a chance to win a Venmo t-shirt.

Please...

We're bringing together the best minds in technology and health care for a meetup over chips, salsa and margaritas (on us). HOSTED BY RSVP on Facebook too!

Featuring:

DIPLO
ECLECTIC METHOD
w/ visuals by SEEPER and CTRL

As the sun sets over SXSW and Austin comes alive, Vimeo and Nikon invite you to an evening of musical mayhem and immersive visual eye candy in the heart of the once-dormant Seaholm Power Plant. With your own eyes or through the lens, experience an event like no other with world...

Ever wondered what Family Feud with all your favorite tech giants would look like? Well wonder no more. We’ll have some of the largest tech giants on stage competing for the ultimate bragging rights as to who’s the smartest at SXSW.

Not just content with putting them under the spotlight, we’ll have entertainment from master turntablist Cut...

As we all start to plan our panels and parties for SXSWi it's time to add the TownHoller+BeerSphere Sunday afternoon gathering and group checkin at Club De Ville to your calendar.

Last year was a great time and we are hoping for more of the same this year, great people, great conversations, and great weather. So follow the updates @townholler...

We're gathering Austin's best food trucks together for an afternoon of BBQ, tacos, meat pies and more.

Download Foodspotting for Secret Menu items and to participate in a photo scavenger hunt - win prizes!

Featuring the following Food Truck stars:
- Along Came a Slider
- Boomerang's Pies
- Chi'Lantro
- Clem's Hot Diggity...

Join us in person for our annual Live Diggnation in Austin at SXSW (you know what that means - beer, magic and the best kind of debauchery!). Also appearing is resident magician Brian Brushwood of Scam School, Indie rock duo Bad Veins, and our favorite nerd-tastic musician, DJ Mike Relm! So if you're in Austin for all the SXSW goodness, or you...

tsy is headed to SXSW and we'd love to see you there! Join us at Venue 222 in the heart of downtown Austin for two full days and nights of DIY + Handmade + Music goodness. Stop by and get your hands dirty with upcycling tees into bags, painting shot glasses, screenprinting, handmade music, buttons, DJs, bands and more!

Stay after-hours as we...

Dear San Frandisco,
It’s not you, it’s me.

It’s finally time for me to break up with my other boyfriend, San Francisco, and run along, lil doggies—I’m moving to Texas!

In my (almost) 8 years in the city, I’ve lived an ENTIRE lifetime: Google, Facebook, Zynga, 6 apartments, 12 roommates, 1 husband, the best friends a girl could ever...

Science of Cocktails is back.

In 2010, more than 500 cocktail enthusiasts participated in the Exploratorium’s transform from science museum into a cocktail laboratory complete with acclaimed mixologists, one-of-a-kind cocktails, master distillers, physicists, chemists, and a little dry ice.

This year, we will once again take an in-depth,...

"He was twice in the city of San Francisco and twice saw it burn and never went back, riding out on horseback along the road to the south where all night the shape of the city burned against the sky and burned again in the black waters of the sea where dolphins rolled through the flames, fire in the lake, through the fall of burning timbers...

It's about time that we invited you all to our new apartment. Come warm up for the holidays with some of Nick's (in)famous Glögg.

Please feel free to bring a +1 or maybe even a +several, if that's how you roll. We trust your judgement.

-Pete & Nick

Intended for everybody who wants to see everybody but never gets the chance. Happening the First Friday of Every Month....

The night may evolve. Rally at Blackbird. Text 650-521-7295 for dinner time and post dinner time details. We'll try to stay close to Bart and Muni.

You don't have to be old to come! Just running low on the...

This race is neck and neck, so in order to ensure victory, we've all got to turn out to vote on Tuesday, November 2. RSVP YES right now, then invite all your friends to this event and remind them to vote YES ON PROP 19!!!

11/01, 11:23 AM: Over 26,000 YESes and less than 20 hours until polls open. Tomorrow we change 73 years of failed...

Please help us celebrate getting old by clinking glasses and shaking butts at the classy, vintage-era Burritt Room on the second floor of the Crescent Hotel. Cocktail attire requested, dancing demanded, and champagne specials all night long! Cake-cutting and bevie-toasting at 10 p.m. Can't wait to see yous! Sincerely hope you can make it.

http://www.fandango.com/amcloewsmetreon16_aanem/theaterpage?date=10/1/2010 [8:00 showing]

6:30 - grab some food and gather in Yerba Buena gardens to pre-game
7:20-7:30 - go in to grab seats
8:00 - THIS IS OUR TIME

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.

Leslie will have been 27 for somewhere around a year. It's time to celebrate how short that feels.

Please bring a bottle of Pinot, Rioja, Tempranillo or a crisp white, OR a dish that's relatively healthy. If you need a grill for it, we will have one.

If you're dear friends with Leslie, try to come around 1ish so we get great...

We're publishing a book, so let's celebrate!

Join us for delicious food, open bar, art, and music by Brad Wolfe.

We also have incredible gift bags and a mini-cookbook for you to take home.

Proceeds benefit Yoga Bear and Slow Food USA.

RSVP: http://flexparty.eventbrite.com/
More about the book: http://www.theflexitariancookbook.com

We're launching an astronomically awesome party at the Heyzap HQ (564 Howard St, between 1st and 2nd) on July 31st from 7pm and the team would love it if you could come down and help us drink all the 'refreshments' we have shipped in....we simply can't get through it all ourselves.

To make sure you don't miss out on this...

Presented by Bob Johnson, Bob Johnson Consulting

Join this workshop and explore how mobile marketing can help your school reach enrollment goals. Our review includes how to ensure access to content on your regular website that’s most important for future students to how to communicate with potential students during the enrollment cycle from...

Presented by Emily Dalton Smith and Lisa McIntyre from Arizona State, and Michael Staton from Inigral, Inc.
Foursquare Check-in: http://foursquare.com/venue/5238734

Mark your calendars because YOU, Mr. Staton's favorite people, are invited to celebrate his 30th birthday at Edinburgh Castle.

Please pass this along to anyone I may have forgotten, as I am not connected to all 1400+ of his Facebook friends.

More information to come. See you July 1!

I'm moving to San Diego. Let's have drinks. Bring your friends.