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"Mashable just completed its fourth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour in Austin, Texas and it was great!  Over 400 people joined us at Buffalo Billiards, where they played billiards, Guitar Hero, Xbox, and more.  Not only that, there was amazing conversation, food and an open bar, which I'm sure helped set the mood for the evening.\nPete, Mark \"Rizzn\" Hopkins and I were amazed at everyone who came to SummerMash Austin.  There is such a buzz in the community and it was great to bring everyone together for a shindig.  We had a great time and from what we're hearing, ya'll did too.\nOf course, we couldn't have done SummerMash Austin without the support of all of our sponsors and media partners. Huge thanks to all of you!  Major kudos to Stickam for live streaming the event.  Make sure to check out the amazing videos they took.\nYou can see all the fun on Flickr (make sure to tag with MASHABLE).  Huge thanks to photographers at the event, including Jessica Grieves, Michael Cummings and Wm. Marc Salsberry.  We'll have photos on Facebook soon and will let you know so you can tag them up!\n\nWe're also on tour with SocialMediaCamp sponsored by Yoono and organized by Erica O'Grady. Stickam had the chance at SummerMash Seattle to sit down with Erica, the multi-talented Social Media expert:\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can check out this and all the other interviews from our SummerMash stops on upcoming  Mashable Conversations episodes.\nCheck out the other cities on the U.S. Summer Tour:Austin | Miami | Boston | New York City\nLocal Sponsor:\n\n'speakTECH provides User Experience and technical consulting for some of the top social networking companies in the world.'\n\n'Pluck: Empowering leading media companies, brands, and retailers with open content, community, and social networking to drive audience engagement.'\n\n'Small World Labs empowers organizations to harness the power of social media via our online community and social networking solutions.'\n\n'Mashery is the leading provider of on-demand API management solutions, enabling you to attract new partners, manage API access, monitor the distribution of your content, and measure success.'\n*There are special Sponsorship opportunities available. For more info please contact: Brett and Karen at events [at] mashable |dot| com\nPrize Sponsor:'Conjunctured is the first Austin coworking space and where the community comes to work, play, collaborate, and innovate.'\n\n'The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology.'\nLocal Media Partner:\n\"Austin Tech Happy Hour has become the premier networking event for Austin technology professionals to share ideas, insights, and knowledge in a casual and fun environment.\"\n\n\"Bernardo's List is an email newsletter about upcoming events for entrepreneurs, investors and tech execs in New York and other cities nationwide.  Signup is free at http://www.bernardoslist.com!\"\n\n'Social Radius is an award-winning social media marketing firm, specializing in SEO/SMO, thought leadership platforms/social media creation, viral/syndication, outreach and strategy.'\n\n'Business Wire's advanced XHTML feeds deliver more user-friendly news (like photos, linked keywords, advanced earnings tables and stylized text) to search engines, news systems and other audiences. Our SEO tools dial up visibility with social networkers and bloggers. Better be Business Wired.'\nTour Sponsors\n\nThe Sun(TM) Startup Essentials program is designed to help startup businesses off the ground by providing access to industry-leading systems at deep discounts, free world-class software and web-based training, discounts on partner hosting services, and more.\n\nYoono\u2019s mission is to make the social web accessible, easy and fun for everyone. Its newly expanded service socializes your browser, helps you manage your digital life and brings the best of the web into one single browser-based application. Today, 1.3 million users are leveraging Yoono.Yoono is hosting Social Media Camp at each tour stop which brings together the top local names in Blogging, Podcasting, Live Streaming, and New Media to participate in an open workshop about the power of social media.\n\nMySites is a single place for all your online needs. You can create and customize a website, save and share any media, decide who can view it,  embed anywhere, and use any device.\nTouring Video Partner\n\nLaunched in February 2006, Stickam emerged as the first and largest Web site dedicated to live interactive video streaming. Stickam's cutting edge technology delivers millions of streams each day, reaching over two million registered users. They are continuing on the path of social interactive TV by adding features that nurture its growing community and tech-savvy broadcasters. Whether you are famous for 15 or 150,000, Stickam.com is where you will find your friends and fans. See and be seen at Stickam.com, The Live Community.\nExclusive Ticketing Partner\n\n\"Eventbrite is the world's largest self-service online ticketing site.  Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to sell-out an event.\"\nOnline Community Partner\n'EventVue helps conference attendees meet the people that matter to them before they even arrive at an event.'\nTour Media Partner\n\n\"Thrillist is a free daily email that sifts through the crap to bring you the best of what your city's hiding. Each day, you'll get one quick email with info on the best food, drinks, gear, services, and events.  Whatever it is, we promise it won't suck. Get on the list.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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