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By Julie Blaustein

Past Panelists Robert Scoble, Nick O’Neill, Justin Smith and Dan Farber

SNAP Summit: FailCon is a MUST for this fall calendar! A full-day conference on social web development and startup culture that will be held at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco on October 27, 2009. And we have a 15% off for our readers!

15% Discount for Bub.blicio.us Readers!

In its fourth year, SNAP Summit was founded in 2006 by entrepreneurs Christian Perry and Cassandra Phillipps. Over 250 folks are expected to attend including independent developers, executives, investors, marketers, up-and coming startups, companies looking to get in on the next big thing and the most well known bloggers from the Web 2.0 and Social Web sphere.

This year’s SNAP Summit: FailCon is focused on startup failures, the trials faced by entrepreneurs every day and the exteremely challenging recovery from it. Hear how major players in the industry including Lane Becker, CEO of GetSatisfaction, Mark Pincus, CEO & Founder of Zynga, Kavin Stewart, CEO of LOLapps and Ron Conway, Angel and Partner at Baseline Ventures and more…Learn how they have dealt famously with startup troubles, recovered, and kept a positive, tenacious, and energetic attitude through it all. This is a must to attend for anyone considering business or web 2.0 fields as you WILL encounter these problems and make the mistakes presented at the Summit. Come join us and learn to prepare from those who have overcome them.

Benefits of a full conference pass include:
* Admission to all Main Stage, Workshop, and Demo talks
* Complimentary breakfast, snacks, and beverages
* Free wifi throughout the venue
* Nifty schwag from our sponsors
* Networking time to meet with major players in the online companies and communities.

For more information go to SNAP Summit

Post and video by Miiko Mentz

Bubblicious Reporter Alison McNeill recently presented Bubby awards to five winners at Twiistup 5, which was held at Hangar:8 at the Santa Monica airport. Last Friday, we posted our highlight reel that included an interview with Twiistup Producer Mike Macadaan and highlights of all five Bubby Award winners, and all this week we featured each of the five winners.

Today concludes our Twiistup coverage with our final interview with Christine Elia, founder and CEO of Closet Couture, who was awarded the Bubby award for “Favorite Fashionista Startup.”

Closet Couture is a social fashion site that “connects people of stylish minds with those who live or work around them,” according the Closet Couture site. In addition to being a community of fashionistas, it also serves as a utility site where people can get help with their personal wardrobes, or even help with just one outfit for a special occasion, from other users or professional stylists. We first discovered Closet Couture at TechCrunch50 and have closely followed them since. We love them and hope you do, too.

If you missed our other interviews earlier this week check them out:

• Favorite Do-Gooder: Causecast
• Favorite Showoff: Viewdle
• Kick Ass Female & Best Laugh: Patricia Handschiegel
• Most Bubbly: Karen Hartline

I hope y’all enjoyed the Bubby train ride this week. We’re off to SXSW and we just might give out one more Bubby award while kickin’ it Texas-style. Ya never know when or where we might turn up to award you with a Bubby. As Alison McNeill stated in last Friday’s post, “we were questioned about our criteria in choosing the winners and the truth is that there are none. So be prepared, at any time or any event, because you, too, may be presented with a Bubby!”