Owen Thomas
I kid because I love.

The 2010 Crunchies is our fourth annual competition and award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year.

Hey it's my birthday and I feel sad and old and alone and I want to drink with people. With anyone, really, which is why I invited you, and why you should invite/drag along anyone I've forgotten.

Come meet the NYC digital editor of Ad Age and Ad Age's "new" San Francisco reporter. Michael will say super smart things about the ad world. Irina will do the same AND make you laugh.

The Scratcher

Oh hello! I'm going to be in New York and I'd like to see you and Nowhere Bar is my favorite East Village queer dive bar and won't you drop in?

Welcome to the Future of Media.

IGNITION will be attended by some 400-500 executives and entrepreneurs from digital, print, TV, radio, music, and Hollywood. Attendees will come to strategize, stay abreast of new trends, and develop new business.

Attendees will include high-level executives from traditional and emerging media companies,...

Hey! A lot of us are in town for the holidays. Let's hang out! We can get coffee or sandwiches at Cosi, go ice skating, lollygag, lounge, or otherwise act as the local gadabouts.

Need to get our of the house after Thanksgiving? Want to work out some frustrations and burn some calories? Or just want to hang out with two generally awesome gentlemen?

Jack Levenson and Owen Thomas invite you to join them in a rock climbing expedition at Sportrock, an indoor climbing center. Equipment can be rented there. Owen's never...

Matt Marshall, Editor-in-Chief of VentureBeat and Andy McLoughlin, Co-Founder of Huddle, lead us through an hour-long discussion on the latest trends regarding business applications in the cloud and how they are impacting the way businesses operate today.

This session is ideal for any small and medium-sized business executives or departmental...

VentureBeat and SSE Labs of Stanford University are proud to host GreenBeat 2010 — the year’s seminal conference on the smart grid — at Stanford University, November 3-4. World leaders in smart grid initiatives will come together and discuss the many ways the new “Super Grid” is creating huge opportunities in cars, energy storage and...

Join us in celebrating the 15th Anniversary of Laughing Squid on October 21st at Mighty (http://www.mighty119.com) in San Francisco.

This is not one of the big public fire & robots events that we have done in the past, but more of an intimate social gathering for our close friends.

Music by DJ Maubrowncow & DJ Timmmii.

The awesome...

http://events.venturebeat.com/discoverybeat2010/

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We've taken it upon ourselves to organize (thanks Mike Sonn) what I believe to be the very first North Beach volunteer neighborhood clean-up. We've got the SF Dept. of Public Works supporting us and hope you all can join us to give our neighborhood some much needed TLC.

See you there.

**Buy your tickets here: http://startuppr.eventbrite.com**

Reporters from Forbes, VentureBeat, TheNextWeb, Pop17, CBS5 San Francisco, StartupDigest, Huffington Post, BusinessWeek, BlogTalkRadio, Adotas, Bub.blicio.us, and more will be presenting.

Startup PR Summit 2010 is a unique and rare opportunity for startups to learn from accredited members...

Blanc & Otus is celebrating its 25th anniversary - and is excited to share the milestone with you! Please join us for a night of fun, friends and music to ring in our quarter century.

Building on the success of the soldout 2008 and 2009 MobileBeat conferences, we are proud to introduce a new two-day format for MobileBeat2010 that offers expanded content and networking. Come join mobile industry leaders July 12-13 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco as we explore the year of the superphone and how to profit from it.

We are in...

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The better access to information provided by new technologies is changing the way we do business, approach funding, and handle our profits and cash. The Future of Money and Technology will draw the best and brightest minds from the intersection of money and technology...

Jean-Luc Park is in town. Let's hang out!

Obliterati is the epic monthly get-together that's been bringing together New York's friendliest techies and bloggers -- and the people who love them too much -- since way back in the late '00s.

Now, Obliterati is touching down in San Francisco, next Thursday, April 8 from 6 to 10 p.m. at Zeitgeist! Sponsored by Citysearch and...