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"Here's Mashable's latest round-up of upcoming Web 2.0 events, parties, and conferences.  Not on this list?  Contact us and let's establish a media sponsorship. :)\nJuly 30, 2008: Mashable is ready to rock out at our fourth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour, as well as our first time in Austin, TX. With finger-lickin\u2019 food, cold drinks and Mashable\u2019s Pete Cashmore, Mark \u2018Rizzn\u2019 Hopkins and Karen Hartline, it\u2019s the event you won\u2019t want to miss. We promise not to mess with Texas while we\u2019re in town and guarantee to accept any challenge to Billiards, Rock Band, Wii, or Shuffleboard. Yee haw! \n\nJuly 31-August 4, 2008: iCAMP is an international informal conference of Internet activists, held at Moscow.  iCamp 2008 will bring together internet project managers, startup managers, web developers, designers, media managers, bloggers, and journalists and connect them with angel investors, government IT representatives, internet researchers, and more.  All in all, among 500 participants from Russia, CIS, Europe and USA will spend 4 days exchanging ideas, projects, experience, as well as playing games, doing sports, dancing to live music, and just mingling.\n\nAugust 2, 2008: Mashable makes our first trip to Miami for the forth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour.  Party the night away at The Opium Garden, where we may forget we\u2019re in Miami with the amazing Asian outdoor architecture. Everyone is a VIP as we have a private room just for the Summer MashBash.  The temperature will rise when Mashable\u2019s Pete Cashmore and Karen Hartline arrive, but we need you there to keep the roof blazing.  We\u2019ll provide drink tickets, appetizers and music if you bring the moves.  Miami is extra special as we\u2019re partying with DailyMe and celebrating their launch!\n\n\nAugust 5, 2008: Mashable makes it\u2019s first trip to Boston, MA for the sixth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour.  You won\u2019t see Paul Revere, but you will have the chance to hang out with Mashable\u2019s Pete Cashmore, Brett Petersel and Karen Hartline. Join us for food (no Boston baked beans, sorry), drinks and a DJ. We want to see the \u201CMashable Nation\u201D in full force! We\u2019re partying at The Roxy Nightclub, which has many areas for you to see and be seen.  Get more information and RSVP here. \n\nAugust 7, 2008: Mashable finish\u2019s the U.S. Summer Tour in the only city big enough to handle it, New York City! Mashable\u2019s back for our second time in NYC and will have a repeat performance at Touch with the Mashable All-Stars, including Pete Cashmore, Adam Hirsch, Adam Ostrow, Brett Petersel, Tamar Weinberg, and Karen Hartline. Frank Sinatra did it his way, but we\u2019re ready to rock out our final stop with the city that never sleeps. We\u2019re going out with a bang and have a big surprise in store for the big finale.  You won\u2019t want to miss out on this!\n\nAugust 10-12, 2008: Mashable is pleased to announce that we are a sponsor of Affiliate Summit 2008 East, which is taking place August 10-12 in Boston and expects about 2,500 attendees.  The keynote speaker will be Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ.  Affiliate Summit Inc. is the premier affiliate marketing conference and was founded in 2003 by affiliate marketing industry veterans, Shawn Collins and Missy Ward to serves the affiliate marketing professional community.  Affiliate marketers know not to miss this event.  Find out how to save 15% off.\nBY THE WAY, are you going to Affiliate Summit? \nJoin InternetGeekGirl and her social media friends for the fun-ride of the summer.  The Affiliate Summit party bus will be leaving NYC in just one month (departs August 9th) and heading to Boston for Affiliate Summit East. Plus special guest, Gary Vaynerchuk of WineLibrary.tv, will be rolling down to NYC with us on August 13th (the trip home).  Staff from mashable, Buy.at, Magnify.net, 11-15Media, and many more great companies will be on the bus. You should be too. Tickets are still available, but selling fast, so grab yours today. Plus don't forget to swing through the Affiliate Summit blogger lounge while your there and meet all you peeps and tweeps!\nPLUS - Mashable readers save 10% when registering. Use the code MASHABLE.\n\nAugust 14-16, 2008:  The New Media Expo is the world's most popular convention for online audio and video creators and will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Expo is a hands-on, exciting, \"how-to\" event with practical conference sessions about how to produce high-quality online audio and video content, grow a loyal audience, and market or monetize that content in creative ways.  Congratulations to Ben Parr for winning a ticket from Mashable!\n\nAugust 21, 2008: Community Next::Monetize is an exclusive expo bringing together top advertisers and publishers/bloggers/app developers. The goal is to connect these influential groups and help publishers find new and better ways to monetize and of course have fun in the process. There will be a free delicious lunch and an open bar all afternoon.  Want more information?  Visit our CommunityNext::Monetize announcement for the skinny.\n\nSeptember 7-9, 2008 Be the first to see the most innovative, marketing defining new technologies unveiled for the very first time.  Attend DEMOfall 08 on September 7-9, 2008 in San Diego.  Mashable readers are invited to attend for a special rate of only $2,395 \u2013 a $600 savings off our regular rate.  Click here to learn more and register: http://www.demo.com/F8mashable\n\nSeptember 18, 2008: The Houston Interactive Marketing Association presents \u201CInteractive Strategies: Secrets Exposed,\u201D a full day conference in Houston, Texas, on September 18, 2008. Interactive Strategies is the South Coast\u2019s rogue interactive marketing conference featuring Tara Hunt as the keynote speaker. Breakout sessions will cover topics in social media, SEO, and digital media.  More conference details and a 20% discount for registration can be found in the official announcement on Mashable. \n\nSeptember 23-26, 2008: Returning to Sydney Australia in September for the 5th year, Web Directions South '08 once again features a two day conference of leading international and local experts in web design and development, two days of in depth workshops, parties, receptions and other networking events. Featured speakers this year include Jeffrey Veen, Derek Featherstone, Daniel Burka, Douglas Crockford,  Jeff Croft, and Lynne D Johnson, who will cover front and back end web development, web app security, web design, interaction design, and much more.  Check out Mashable's official announcement here. \n\nSeptember 29-30, 2008: InterAct 2008, to be held on September 29-30 at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington DC, hopes to have 1,000 attendees each day, 65 exhibitors, and 35+ of the industries hottest talents speaking about proven methods to increase market share on the web, turnkey web solutions, user experience, search engine optimization, user interface design, branding, rich media, video, mobile media, social media, new business development, and networking, networking, networking.  Want more information and a discount code?  Hop on over to our conference post with all the deets!\n\nOctober 6-8, 2008: Back for the second year, Virtual Worlds Forum Europe 2008 (VWF) isproduced by the Virtual Economic Forum, Europe's leading virtual worlds media company. Three days of congress, expo and workshops covering entertainment, enterprise, community, education, marketing, regulation, and finance... plus lots more. VWF is the place to make connections, be inspired and have fun.\n\nOctober 20-21, 2008: Mashable is pleased to be collaborating with US-based Virtual Worlds Management to bring you to Virtual Worlds London, the premiere event focused on virtual worlds and Web 3D. Virtual Worlds London takes place 20-21 October 2008 in the heart of London at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Virtual Worlds London is the leading event for businesses seeking to understand and maximize business strategies within virtual worlds. VW London is presented by leading VW business blog Virtual Worlds News.  More information and a discount link is right over here. \n\nNovember 11-14, 2008: For anyone involved in the production, marketing, or management of an Internet web site - this is a must attend event to be held in Las Vegas, NV. PubCon covers search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM), web hosting issues, domains &amp; the domaining business, Internet video, podcasting, multimedia, and special sessions of interactive attendee site reviews. In addition, there are tracks on new marketing techniques, linking strategies, social media, and online advertising.  Save 15% by using the code on our discount announcement."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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