For the past four years, TECH cocktail has hosted large-scale mixers across the country to “connect, educate and amplify” local technology and startup communities. The signature event is coming for the first time to San Francisco on Tuesday, September 14, 2010 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at ROE.

TECH cocktail is a media and events organization co-founded by Frank Gruber and Eric Olson. The evening promises a casual opportunity to mingle and connect with Bay Area entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts. Like at previous events, there will be a showcase of demos by hand-picked local startups. Register now!

Past featured startups have included:

• SocialThing (now AOL Lifestream)
• OneForty
• Crowdspring
• SCVNGR
• BandsInTown
• HaveMyShift
• Edmodo

By Miiko Mentz (@miikomentz)

Panasonic’s ‘Living In HD’ (LiHD) Insider contest is in its final hours. Five of the ten finalists are friends of Bubblicious and we’d like to enlist you to help one of them win by voting today. The contest ends tonight at 11:59pm EDT.

Check out each of their videos and then cast your vote for your favorite at http://lihdinsider.livinginhd.com/. And if you tweet it, use hashtag #lihdinsider.

The LiHD Insider winner will receive a full content creator suite of Panasonic HD products to fuel their creativity and share their life in HD across the social Web and within the LiHD community. In addition, the newly crowned LiHD Insider will receive a Panasonic LUMIX G1 digital camera to give away to one person within their own community of friends, fans and followers.

So vote now for your favorite and if he or she wins then you might have a chance to win the Panasonic LUMIX G1 digital camera. To read more about the LiHD Insider program and see the suite of products that the winner will receive, check out the social media release at http://pitch.pe/23965

Sarah Austin (@pop17)

Cathy Brooks (@cathybrooks) and Truman Brooks (@trumanbrooks)

Erin Darling (@ErinADarling)

Frank Gruber (@FrankGruber)

Michael Sheehan (@HighTechDad)

Once again, voting closes tonight at 11:59pm, so VOTE NOW!