SummerMash Austin ( Mashable ) July 30, 2008

Mashable is ready to rock out at our fourth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour, as well as our first time in Austin, TX. With finger-lickin’ food, cold drinks and Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and Karen Hartline, it’s the event you won’t want to miss. We promise not to mess with Texas while we’re in town and guarantee to accept any challenge to Billiards, Rock Band, Wii, or Shuffleboard. Yee haw!









SummerMash: Austin
The Official SummerMash Austin Website




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RSVP POLICY
This is both a ticketed and 21+ event. Please purchase tickets through EventBrite by following this link: http://summermashaustin.eventbrite.com




WHEN
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 - 7:00-10:00pm

WHERE
Buffalo Billiards
201 6th Street
Austin, TX 78701

WHAT ELSE
Drink Tickets, “Bar Food”, Billiards / RockBand / Wii / Shuffleboard and more!

SOCIALIZE
LinkedIn, Facebook , Meetup , Myspace , Qik, Upcoming

PRESS PASSES
Please inquire through events[at]mashable[dot]com




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LOCAL SPONSORS






speakTECH

speakTECH provides user experience and technical consulting for some of the top social networking companies in the world.







Pluck

Pluck: Empowering leading media companies, brands, and retailers with open content, community, and social networking to drive audience engagement.







Small World Labs

Small World Labs empowers organizations to harness the power of social media via our online community and social networking solutions.







Mashery is the leading provider of on-demand API management solutions, enabling you to attract new partners, manage API access, monitor the distribution of your content, and measure success.'




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TOUR PRIZE SPONSOR





The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.




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LOCAL PRIZE SPONSOR:






Conjunctured is the first Austin co-working space and where the community comes to work, play, collaborate, and innovate.


*There are special Sponsorship opportunities available. For more info please contact: Brett and Karen at events [at] mashable |dot| com


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LOCAL MEDIA PARTNERS






Austin Tech Happy Hour

Austin Tech Happy Hour has become the premier networking event for Austin technology professionals to share ideas, insights, and knowledge in a casual and fun environment.





Bernardo’s List

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Social Radius is an award-winning social media marketing firm, specializing in SEO/SMO, thought leadership platforms/social media creation, viral/syndication, outreach and strategy.





Business Wire's advanced XHTML feeds deliver more user-friendly news (like photos, linked keywords, advanced earnings tables and stylized text) to search engines, news systems and other audiences. Our SEO tools dial up visibility with social networkers and bloggers. Better be Business Wired.




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TOUR SPONSORS






Sun Startup Essentials

The Sun(TM) Startup Essentials program is designed to help startup businesses off the ground by providing access to industry-leading systems at deep discounts, free world-class software and web-based training, discounts on partner hosting services, and more.





Yoono

Yoono’s mission is to make the social web accessible, easy and fun for everyone. Its newly expanded service socializes your browser, helps you manage your digital life and brings the best of the web into one single browser-based application. Today, 1.3 million users are leveraging Yoono.





Yoono is hosting Social Media Camp at each tour stop which brings together the top local names in Blogging, Podcasting, Live Streaming, and New Media to participate in an open workshop about the power of social media.





MySites

MySites is a single place for all your online needs. You can create and customize a website, save and share any media, decide who can view it, embed anywhere, and use any device.




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TOURING VIDEO PARTNER





Stickam

Launched in February 2006, Stickam emerged as the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming. Stickam’s cutting edge technology delivers millions of streams each day, reaching over two million registered users. They are continuing on the path of social interactive TV by adding features that nurture its growing community and tech-savvy broadcasters. Whether you are famous for 15 or 150,000, Stickam.com is where you will find your friends and fans. See and be seen at Stickam.com, the live community.




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EXCLUSIVE TICKETING PARTNER





EventBrite

Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service online ticketing site. Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to sell-out an event.




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ONLINE COMMUNITY PARTNER





EventVue

EventVue helps conference attendees meet the people that matter to them before they even arrive at an event.





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TOURING MEDIA PARTNER





Thrillist

Thrillist is a free daily email that sifts through the crap to bring you the best of what your city’s hiding. Each day, you’ll get one quick email with info on the best food, drinks, gear, services, and events. Whatever it is, we promise it won’t suck. Get on the list!

Official Website: http://www.mashable.com/us-summer-tour-2008/summermash-austin