Philip Flip Kromer
Founder, http://infochimps.org - Building tools to Organize, Explore and Comprehend massive data sources

Another fresh Rails meeting and some socialization practice.

Rails Next Top Model: ActiveModel and ActiveRelation (Adam Keys, aka @therealadam)

Database Anti-Patterns (Xavier Shay, aka @xshay ... all the way from New Zealand!)

We will gather again on Sunday to watch Cornell play in the second round of the tournament. The media has jumped on the Cornell bandwagon and Big Red is becoming the Cinderella team on the tournament. It should be a great game and we have an excellent chance of winning! It will be Brains vs. Beer.

The Tavern will be crowded and I am not sure...

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...

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.

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...

new event: Mar 14 in Austin. Yes, it's during SXSW

"Reverse VC Pitch Party".
First 75 are free: http://www.duck9.com/14

This party will sell out so tell only your best friends about this

Last year a twitter conversation among three data geeks accidentally turned into a 30+ person data meetup — with no planning, nowhere near enough chairs, and yet a total success. Clearly, SxSW needs a gathering of data geeks.

So here it is, bigger, better, and with free food. We're still keeping it simple, though: get a whole bunch of...

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...

Please join Gawker Media and io9 for free drinks, a performance by MC Frontalot, and stormtroopers.

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!

The SXSW Interactive Festival is very excited that danah boyd will serve as the Opening Speaker for the 2010 event. One of the worlds foremost authorities on social networks, boyd works at Microsoft Research New England and also serves as a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and...

Over 5,100 teams of scientists and engineers worked for almost three years to find a solution to the $1,000,000 Netflix Prize. How did the top two teams meet the challenge? Why did so many teams fail? A member of the leading team shares the inside story on crowdsourcing technical challenges.

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...

This is a great chance to catch up with Refreshers you met last year and make some new friends before the conference starts in full. The lunch will be at B.D. Riley's, the same venue as the last two years, and will be a casual affair. We don't have any sponsors, so you'll need to pick up your own tab, but the pub is very...

It's that time of year again. The annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival is upon us. The festival doesn't begin until Friday, March 12th so we're going to have a little pre-party on Thursday, March 11th from 5:30pm - 8:00pm. This happy hour is typically jam packed with excitement, as people are buzzing about new company...