This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka "The Guy with the Red Tie"), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and mentor at ER Accelerator. You can reach him at gary [at] garysguide.org.

Rumor has it (thru my Silicon Alley grapevine of course) that Airbnb and Vayable are teaming up to throw an awesome party somewhere downtown today to celebrate Vayable's NYC launch. You know what they say about rumors ... they are usually true! ;) Oka-aay, lets see whats happenin' this week.

START-UPalooza: The Innovative Entrepreneurs Marketplace
Okay, I admit it. Anything with "palooza" in the title never fails to grabs my attention. Providing an opportunity for start-ups to pitch investors including Brian Cohen (NY Angels), Aaron Price (DFJ Gotham), William Reinisch (Paladin Capital), Ellie Wheeler (Greycroft Partners) and more.
Monday, 1 p.m. @ Fordham Lincoln Center, 113 W. 60th Street Pope Auditorium

NJ Tech Meetup #15
If you thought the best thing to come out of Jersey was Snooki, Mike "The Situation," and Pauly D. then clearly you have never been to the sold-out and wait-listed NJ Tech Meetup. Featured speaker this month is Greg Besner, CFO, SecondMarket; other start-ups presenting include Fitocracy and Foodang.
Monday, 6:30 p.m. @ Stevens Institute Of Technology, Babbio Center, Hoboken

Geekdown
Wearable geek chic? VHS cannons?? One-bit computers??? Giant chrome double fingers???? It's art-meets-tech all month at the 92Y gallery exhibition curated by Winslow Porter and Gabriella Levine.
Monday, 8 p.m. @ 92YTribeca, 200 Hudson Street

Annual Summer Bash
Summer schmoozing at its best at the Exec Council and NY Venture Capital Association's annual networking bash.
Tuesday, 6 p.m. @ SNR Denton, 1221 Avenue of the Americas

EW+SOS+ERA Present: Rocking out on the Terrace
You know who likes private terrace parties overlooking the Hudson river on a fine summer evening chugging cold beer and networking with fellow start-up peeps? You. :)
Tuesday, 6 p.m. @ Private Residence Terrace, 312 11th Avenue

NY Times TimesOpen 2011: HTML5 and Beyond
And you thought the New York Times couldn't teach us anything about emerging tech. Learn about HTML5 (Pete LePage, Google), CoffeeScript (Jeremy Ashkenas, NY Times) and Node.js (David Padbury, Lab49).
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. @ The New York Times, 620 Eighth Avenue 15th Floor

Javascript Testing At Google Scale
Okay, 'nuf partying. Lets get serious and earn some weekly geek points by deep diving into Javascript at this Google NYC Tech Talk. If you love your J-queries and node.js'es as much as I do, you won't wanna miss this.
Wednesday, 5:30 p.m. @ Googleplex East, 76 9th Avenue

Entrepreneurs Roundtable 38
ER Accelerator honcho Murat Aktihanoglu is back with the 38th edition of the Entrepreneurs Roundtable. In the hot seat this month will be one of the coolest VC cats around--Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures. Memorable Albert Quote: "Start-ups are a marathon, not a sprint."
Wednesday, 6 p.m. @ Microsoft, 1290 6th Avenue 6th Floor

Mobile Innovation in Health
Mobile is hot. Health care is important. Here's where the two meet. Speakers include Meg Walsh (president, Augme Mobile Health), Jed Alpert (founder & CEO, Mobile Commons), Michael Zick Dohery (founder, OpenRTMS) and others.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. @ The Ladders, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, 1540 Broadway

How to Inspire & Monetize
Priceline co-founder Jefff Hoffman bares it all.
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. @ Green Spaces, 394 Broadway

Startups Partnering With Big Companies: Best Practices
So, you really thought you could learn the intricate art of sales & biz dev by renting Glengarry Glen Ross? Here's a better idea. Come learn from folks actually in the trenches - Jared Grusd (AOL), Tristan Walker (foursquare), Sanam Lari (Time Inc), Rich Kennedy (blip.tv) and Serge Kassardjian (Google). Moderated by that lovely "media addict on the loose" Rachel Sklar (Hashable & ChangeTheRatio).
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Cooley, 1114 Avenue of the Americas 26th Floor

NYC Startup Crawl
One lazy Friday afternoon, seven awesome start-up cribs, one crazy after party. Thats what ya get when you sign up for the NYC Startup Crawl. Opening up their offices for public traipsing will be 10gen, Sailthru, Crowdtap, Business Insider, Smartling, Yodle, GameChanger and Art.sy. Now remember, ask nicely and you just might score yourself some swag!
Friday, 3 p.m. @ 10gen, 134 5th Avenue 3rd Floor

Photo Hack Day
You want to build a shiny new photo snapping / filtering / sharing app and have it splattered all over the NASDAQ screen in Times Square? You, my friend, want to be at Aviary's Photo Hack Day this weekend alongwith Canvas, Foursquare, Flickr, Photobucket, Tracks, Pixable, Piictu, OpenPhoto, MoPho and a whole bunch of other interesting photo startup folks.
Saturday, 9 a.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway 4th Floor

More on the horizon ...
Lean Startup Interviews: Birchbox Founders Hayley Barna & Katia Beauchamp and Gil Beyda of Genacast Ventures @ Meetup HQ on Aug 22
NYC August Gaming Meetup @ General Assembly on Aug 22
Digital Dumbo with Google Places @ The Dumbo Loft on Aug 25

Until next week. Stay social, my little monsters!

This is a guest post by Gary Sharma (aka "The Guy with the Red Tie"), founder of GarysGuide and Mentor at ER Accelerator.

Crazy hot summer weather getting to you? Find yourself checking in (along with 15,000 other peeps) to Foursquare's Heatpocalypse NYC? Here's a bunch of events to take you off the streets into some air-conditioned goodness...

NYC Gaming Meetup
New venue. More space. More drinks. Cool folks. Awesome demos. Presenting this month are Richard Talens (Fitocracy), Max Tierman (Raffle Crazy), Nicole Leffel (Dreamland) and Julian Volyn (Red Candy Games).
Monday, 7 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Fl

UWS Startup Breakfast
Deal making and cereal munching in the cozy wholesome environs of uptown land. Get an early start to your week's schmoozing.
Tuesday, 8.30 a.m. @ Le Pain Quotidien, 60 W 65th St

Talk and Q&A with Jason Finger
GA & Gramercy Labs (Snooth, Lot18) team up for the speaker series. On deck is Jason Finger, Founder of SeamlessWeb (now just Seamless) and savior of office lunches everywhere. There will be free wine, beer & hors d'oeuvres. So run, don't walk to RSVP for this one!
Tuesday, 7 p.m. @ General Assembly, 902 Broadway, 4th Fl

SkillSlate Pivot Party
Pivot. Party. 'Nuf said.
Tuesday, 7.30 p.m. @ DCTV Firehouse, 87 Lafayette St

New Geeks on the Block
Hyperlocal tech events are all the rage these days. And following in the footsteps of Hoboken, UWS, Dumbo and East Village is this SoHo-located start-up beer fest.
Tuesday, 6 p.m. @ Brinkleys, 406 Broome St

Covestor Tech Networking Event
Dream about an IPO someday? Ringing the bell @ NYSE? Then this event is just the ticket. Don't forget to work on your 30-second start-up pitch in case you run into USV partner and uber-blogger Fred Wilson in the elevator.
Wednesday, 6 p.m. @ Union Square Ventures, 915 Broadway, 19th Fl

Art, Tech & The City
Julia Kaganskiy's popular monthly meetup fusing the arts, culture and tech worlds. Presenting are Esther Brown (Google Places), City Atlas, Local Projects, Alexander Chen (mta.me) and Festival of Ideas. Google Places is providing the food and drinks ... and maybe some hotpot?
Wednesday, 7 p.m. @ Water Tower cafe at Google, 111 8th Avenue, 5th Fl

David Teten: Best Practices In Hiring & Firing
ff Ventures partner and HBS Angels NY founder, David Teten shares his insights on the issues & challenges of building a great team in an early-stage company. You know you need this.
Thursday, 6 p.m. @ DreamIt Ventures, 28 W 27th St, 11th Floor

New York Tech Karaoke Meetup
You know whats more fun than singing off-key and exchanging business cards? Why, doing both at the same time of course! Get your tech karaoke on this Thursday with Jamil Ellis, Anna Akbari and the gang.
Thursday, 7 p.m. @ Karaoke Cave, 9 E 13th Street

East Village Tech Meetup #2
The East Village Tech Meetup (or EVTM as I like to call it) is back for its sophomore outing doing its bit to unite the techies and hipsters of this world. Stop by for beers, gossip and hopefully a sighting of East Village resident and Betabeat scribe @ADRjeffries.
Thursday, 7 p.m. @ d.b.a, 41 1st Ave

Turntable.fm Dance Party
It was just a matter of time, no? From the folks who brought you the awesome Colors.xxx slidedeck comes the IRL party of the week. In the DJ hot seats will be: DougyD (Doug DeSimone), DJ MizCity (Christina Coster, EventCamp), DJ Shai G (Shai Goldman, SVB), DoctorKlein (Andrew Klein, Digital Artist), Jetsetfarryn (Farryn Weiner) and Obie (Obie Fernandez, Hashrocket).
Thursday, 9 p.m., New Work City, 412 Broadway, 2nd Fl

Lean Startup Machine NYC
The dynamic bloated start-up fighting duo of Trevor Owens and Steven Liu are back to infuse some much needed leanness into your start-up venture. On hand will be a slew of mentors including Giff Constable (Lean Meetup), Nate Berkopec (Angelsoft), Charlie O'Donnell (First Round), Steve Schlafman (Lerer Ventures), Vin Vacanti (Yipit), Farb Nivi (Grockit) and da man himself, Eric Ries.
Friday, 6 p.m. @ Hive@55, 55 Broad Street

More on the horizon ...
NY Tech Meetup @ NYU Skirball on August 2 (next round of tix today July 25 @ 1pm)
140 Edu Conference @ 92nd Street Y on August 2
How To Launch your Startup Idea for Less than 5K @ Dogpatch Labs on Aug 3

Until next week. Stay social, my friends!