One of the highlights of the South by Southwest experience is the parties and each year there are a select few that really stand out that you just have to be at. Sure, there are going to be complaints and criticism about things are handled, but for the most part, the party seems just fine. Was the Mashable MashBash one of these events? Sure…I’d chalk this up and say that the MashBash was the party to look out for at SXSW.
Held at Buffalo Billiards in downtown Austin, the Mashable team threw a soiree that rivaled all others that night and the entire venue was nearly filled to capacity, or at least it seemed it was pretty hard to move around. With free drinks (<$4) and entertainment put on by DJ Chicken George, who said that Mashable can’t throw a lively party. All sorts of ce-web-rities showed up, including Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble, Brian Solis, Michelle Feldman, Drew Olanoff and even Pete Cashmore (well…it was his party, after all).
The party started at 9pm and kept going until 2am when Buffalo Billiards kicked everyone out and we dispersed into the streets seeking the next source of entertainment. The Mashable party was definitely one that I looked forward at my time at SXSW. Definitely something worth going to if you get a chance.
Here are some photos from the event:
Team Mashable
The crowd at the MashBash
Jeff Pulver
Gregarious Narain, Drew Olanoff & Jenn Van Grove
Wm. Marc Salsberry
Pete Cashmore & Leora Israel
Robert Scoble with Leo Laporte interviewing Lisa Bettany
The 2010 edition of the South by Southwest Interactive conference kicked off with a bang at the TechSet & Windows Phone party in Austin, Texas. Held at the Speakeasy, thousands of SXSW attendees flocked to get in on the fun and meet new friends and rekindle old friendships. Thanks to the tandem team of Stephanie Agresta and Brian Solis, the TechSet & Windows Phone party was rocking through the night, complete with a Bing photo booth, musical acts, and a DJ pumping out beats.
If you’re at the South By Southwest (SXSW) interactive festival this year and you haven’t had a chance to swing by the Circus Mashimus lounge, I suggest you do. It was a smash hit at last year’s SXSWi and I’m happy to see Mashery CEO Oren Michels and team are back at this year’s SXSWi.
The Circus Mashimus lounge is not only a great place to grab free coffee in the morning while you check your email, and then beer and popcorn in the afternoon; but it’s the place to be to talk mashups and visit with the Mashery team and its customers and sponsors to learn how to get more from your data by opening it up to developers.
Mashery offers customers a flexible, secure and effective way to manage their application programming interface (API) programs. Offering developers open APIs is an ongoing process from performance and security to registration and provisioning, so having a way to manage it all is critical to the success of an API developer program. And nowadays it’s all about the apps and giving information to customers in new and creative ways, and in the manner and places that they want it, so having an efficient API management platform, such as Mashery, can greatly contribute to the success of an API developer program.
Mashery has an impressive list of customers from Best Buy, Netflix and Etsy to CafePress, among many others. Best Buy, with its Best Buy Remix, and CafePress are sponsors of this year’s Circus Mashimus lounge, so swing by and grab a coffee or beer (depending on time of day) and check out the cool mashups being created by developers and how it’s all managed easily through Mashery.
The Circus Mashimus lounge is open from 9:30AM-6:00PM through tomorrow and is located on the first floor in room three near the Screenburn Arcade in the Austin Convention Center where SXSW is being held.
And check out Bubblicious Reporter Alison McNeill interviews with Oren Michels and Best Buy’s Michele Azar from last year’s Circus Mashimus at SXSWi 2009.
During SXSW, Social Media Club hosted Pool 2.0 at Buffalo Billiards. Attendees from the conference competed against each other throughout the night until there was only one team left standing. But as you’ll see, there was much more than pool to keep everyone entertained.
During SXSW, Richard Binhammer of Dell (RichardAtDell) organized the now infamous AllHat party along with David Armano, Hugh MacLeod, Mark Collier, Mark Drosos and yours truly.
Hundreds of geeks took the wagon trail over to Allens Boots where we shopped for hats, boots, and socialized in the aisles. Following the in store fun, the cavalry hit the outside patio of Gueros where we enjoyed mouth watering TexMex and memorable conversations.
