Chris Tolles
CEO of Topix. Meme fluffer, talent scout & native Californian. Slightly over the top.

Let's start SXSW right with a yearly tradition - predrinks at the Driskill hotel bar.

Every year at SXSW we start off the weekend with a couple relaxing drinks in the historic Driskill hotel bar. If you've never been there's no time like the present to get in on this tradition. Stay as long as you want, there are no rules. Its just...

Village Voice Media presents The Showdown 2010 at SXSW.

Join us on Friday, March 19th at La Zona Rosa (612 W. 4th St. Austin, Texas) from noon to 5 p.m. Must be 18+.

Performance by:
The xx
Superchunk
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Surfer Blood
Free Sol

FREE SHOW!

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...

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 -...

ZOMG, u guyse. Dashiell Bennett, Anthony DeRosa, Meg Frost, Kate Miltner, and Jessica Valenti are doing a SXSW panel on commenters. LOL! They'll be talking about:

- Sociological patterns in commenter communities
- Commenter hierarchies
- Commenter-to-editorial staff transitions
- Commenter controversies (commentroversies)
- Comment moderation...

This panel will explore the fascinating and often bizarre world of commenter culture. From trolls on 4chan to Star Commenters on Gawker Media blogs, panelists will discuss: - The nuances of commenter/blog symbiosis (including the benefit/detriment to the business side of ad-supported blogs) - The nature of commenter hierarchies - The...

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

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...

In a world of hype wars, where many popular yet revenue-challenged startups battle for headline supremacy, a handful of under-the-radar Internet businesses have done the unthinkable: theyve become profitable. Hear how your business can turn more profits than heads from this handful of Internet veterans.

David Cohn, Spot.us; Jake Dobkin, Gothamist.com; Jay Rosen, New York University - Community Funded Reporting - in conversation with Roxanne Cooper, Alternet.org

The Austin chapter of Girls in Tech will be hosting a happy hour reception the first night of South by Southwest Interactive. Please join us for a drink and conversation with some of the leading female tech minds at SXSWi! Appetizers and drinks will be provided.

We’d like to thank the fine people at Porter Novelli Austin, Unwired Nation, and...