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Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse and New York City’s 8bitpeoples, 2 Player productions, and the people behind the Blip Festival have joined forces to create the premiere party during SXSW week, DATAPOP: A Celebration of 8-Bit Music and Culture - March 16th and 17th.

Now in it's third installment, Datapop will be held at Austin's very own...

(mt) is once again living up to the legend of hosting the SXSWi Closing Party for the 5th year! If there's a better way to express our love for SXSW beyond booking awesome bands, buying ridiculous amounts of drinks and hosting brilliant internet minds, please let us know.

Our promise to you:

No gross branded drinks (vista-margaritas and...

(mt) Media Temple brings you the official SXSWi closing party once again! Help us make 2010 the most awesome (mt)+SXSWi blow out ever! Experience the party Tuesday, March 16th at the Mohawk.

Insights and examples from the frontier of interactive infographics. The smart, interactive presentation of data is emerging as a new form of media. Still in an early stage, this format shows major promise. Well explore what this is all about and where its going.

The gap between good and great: there are tried and true ways to improve; but the best road isnt someone elses. Forge your own Desire Path: how personal projects will take you where you want to go. Join Thinking For a Living Networks inside discussion on doing what you love.

Effective dashboard design delivers on the promise of targeted, accessible, and actionable information for organizations looking to maximize their profits. Through good, bad, and very ugly examples, you will learn about practical design techniques and challenges that dashboard designers face today.

This panel highlights the evolution of User Experience as a discipline, and analyzes how different tactics and strategies introduced by experience organizations impact companies innovation pipelines. Panelists compare global experiences across industries, and debate which factors promote innovation, versus which do not. Some factors widely...

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...

An extravaganza of music, performances, art, and talks based upon “The Science of Music"
FEATURING Edible Austin hosting the
Edible Austin Foodie Fest and Tipsy Texan Cocktail Bar!

What was once the (maybe not so) mild-mannered SXSW Interactive EFF-Austin Official After-Party has morphed into a multifaceted extravaganza called...

Join us in Austin on Monday, March 15th at the Austin Music Hall in for a gdgt party and meetup!

We'll have all kinds of gadgets and demos from our awesome vendors, including:

AMD - http://www.amd.com/
AnyClip - http://anyclip.com/
Aviary - http://aviary.com/
Boxee - http://www.boxee.tv/
Buffalo Technology - http://www.buffalotech.com/...

DJ Spooky premiering The Elegant Universe,  Black Pig Liberation Front, Bruce Sterling, Dr. Strangevibe, China’s Xiao He and White.  FREE local food/drink samples from Edible Austin and Tipsy Texan. Plutopia.org

Ever since Leonardo put pen to paper, visual note-taking has been a route to improve the quality of your thinking, make information more memorable, and make your ideas easier to share with others. Learn practical techniques and tricks of the trade from modern visual note-taking masters: how to write, sketch, and...

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...

Usability? Meh. Lets talk about persuasion. Are you designing serendipity, arousal, rewards and other seductive elements into your applications? Well discuss specific ways that sites like Dopplr, iLike and LinkedIn leverage basic human psychology to motivate and shape online behaviors.

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...

Join PBS, NPR, FRONTLINE, ITVS, FUTURESTATES, ReadWriteWeb and Blogads @KLRUs Legendary Austin City Limits Studio. Live music, Tex-Mex, Margaritas. Streamed live on video.pbs.org/sxsw (Free shuttles at the Hilton).

The Popbox Party: Play Nice. Come party with Popbox - the connected entertainment device that elegantly plays all the stuff from your home network and the web, on your big screen HDTV.

So youve designed a great product, fixed a stack of usability problems and spent a fortune on marketing. The only problem is, people arent using it. In this session you will learn how to get your users to do what you want them to through good design, human psychology and a...

The Austin Museum of Digital Art presents a party featuring live electronic music and visual art. Expect video projections, interactive installations, and a Laptop Battle with musicians competing to outperform one another in a series of elimination rounds. Free for SXSW Interactive badgeholders. www.amoda.org

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

The legend lives on as frog design returns to host the Interactive Opening Party. This not-to-be-missed event brings together digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs for an unforgettable evening. How much is too much?