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By Gary Sharma 2/27/12 5:23am

The 15 SXSW Parties You Really, Really Don’t Want to Miss

This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), founder & CEO of GarysGuide and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over 40 red ties. You can follow him at @garysguide and reach him at gary [at] garysguide.com.

As y’all know, SXSW (a.k.a. “Sundance for the Geek Set”) is less than two weeks away. And ya know what that means. Time to put into place a plan of action on how you gonna be partaying and taking Austin by storm! So to make your life easier to gorge on all those tears-of-joy-inducing Nuclear Tacos and drool-generating Salt Lick BBQs I’ve put together The Definitive Guide to SXSW Interactive 2012 Parties! And of course, it comes with my special commentary & notes to help you make sense of all the madness! You’re welcome. Read More

By Gary Sharma 2/21/12 6:00am

Goooood Morning Silicon Alley!

Best Tech Events This Week (The Pinteresting Edition)

Alley vs. Valley 2.0?
Holy Guacamole! Am I hallucinating or are micro-blogging pioneer and Silicon Alley darling Tumblr and the latest social media “pinning” sensation, Reddit for girls and current Silicon Valley obsession Pinterest heading for an epic startup throwdown? Read More

By Ben Popper 1/05/12 10:35am

Jobs

Kanye West Now Hiring “App Guys” and “Tech Guys” for New Company: DONDA

After a long sabattical from his Twitter account, Kanye West returned to the internet last night with a flurry of thoughts in 140 characters or less. The big news, he is forming a new company, DONDA. It’s not entirely clear what the mission of the company is, but it seems like the tech set can get involved: Read More

By Ben Popper 2/03/11 10:39am

Tech Bubble Watch

As Market For Private Tech Shares Booms, New Players Emerge

With the trade in private shares of tech companies expected to grow by fifty percent this year, new players are joining established exchanges like SharePost and SecondMarket.

Gate Technologies, based out of New York, is one such challenger. It offers an electronic trading platform and claims to provide faster, less expensive Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/25/11 11:22am

Uncategorized

Aol Email Users Have Not Got Mail

Did you know Aol’s email service was down for more than 12 hours yesterday?

Exactly.

About 4 percent of Aol Mail users were frozen out of their accounts yesterday and emails sent to them were rejected, MSNBC’s Wilson Rothman reports. Aol Mail users are still missing emailsthat disappeared during the outage.

That’s Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/25/11 11:03am

Q&A

Forget Quora, New York’s Stack Overflow Is Killing It

As the tech blogosphere continues to gush and agonize over the question-and-answer site Quora, New York’s question-and-answer site Stack Overflow has been quietly catching fire.

Stack Overflow is primarily a message board where programmers can share tips and tricks and crowdsource solutions to problems they run into while coding. The name is Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/25/11 10:17am

The Tumblr Trainwreck

Tumblr Adds Suggested Tumbeast to 404 Page

Tumblr has a new mascot—the Tumbeast.

Tumblr has been drowning in its own popularity lately, reminded users of Twitter’s frequent outages in the early days.

But Twitter has a lovable downtime mascot, the “fail whale’ drawn by artist Yiying Lu, which has had an article in The New York Times Magazine and has Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/24/11 5:52am

Hackathons

The Grueling Schedule of a Weekend Hackathon

Developer John Britton hosted about a dozen guests last weekend at his Brooklyn apartment, the site of the official Peer 2 Peer University hackathon, NYC edition. Guests traveled from New Orleans, Boston, Canada, South Africa and elsewhere to participate in a grueling schedule of coding, talking and planning the next iteration of Read More

By Ben Popper 1/21/11 2:48pm

Tech Bubble Watch

Area Code Is Now Zynga New York

Zynga, one of the fastest growing businesses on the web, now has a New York arm.

Game developer Area Code announced today that they will be known as Zynga New York.

There are no details at the moment on what Zynga paid to acquire Area Code or if this was more of Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 1/21/11 9:35am

Antisocial Media

The Long and Curious History of Meetup.com

Meetup.com is announcing something big next week.

They’re calling it “New Meetup,” and more than 1,000 people have RSVP’ed to a secretive event at Irving Plaza.

The coming of “New Meetup” means the site you see today could soon be referred to as “Old Meetup.”

And Meetup is old—about nine years Read More

BetaBeat

The 15 SXSW Parties You Really, Really Don’t Want to Miss

Best Tech Events This Week (The Pinteresting Edition)

Kanye West Now Hiring “App Guys” and “Tech Guys” for New Company: DONDA

As Market For Private Tech Shares Booms, New Players Emerge

Aol Email Users Have Not Got Mail

Forget Quora, New York’s Stack Overflow Is Killing It

Tumblr Adds Suggested Tumbeast to 404 Page

The Grueling Schedule of a Weekend Hackathon

Area Code Is Now Zynga New York

The Long and Curious History of Meetup.com

Across the Wire

Changes at The New York Times Book Review

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