Tonight, fight for your right to mix and mash music with Lawrence Lessig, the intellectual-dreamboat Stanford law professor. Lessig will be launching his new book, "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy" at the W Hotel at 6:30 p.m. More concerned about catching the next show than the culture…
Big companies play with social media, often with hilarious results. Today, learn the lessons Robert Scoble never got in school. BlogWell at the San Jose Convention Center is giving an afternoon lesson on how to make corporate blogs a sanctioned part of your PR machine. While corporate America is getting a hold on Web…
Sure, speed dating can find you seven minutes in heaven, but how about a chief whatever officer? Tonight, Right-Hand Partners sets out to pair fundable execs with the hot startup next door. For a shot at entrepreneurial love, get yourself to Fenwick & West at 5:30 p.m. You just might get lucky. It may be the end of…
Terms and conditions are boring enough to make anyone glaze over. But when VC financing is on the line, do yourself a favor and understand just how much of your life you're signing away. Today, Astia is hosting an afternoon workshop on negotiating term sheets at the Microsoft San Francisco campus from 1:30-3 p.m. Once…
We've been wondering when Second Life's users would start fleeing the virtual ghost town. It's happening! Online-only performance troupe, Second Front, is stepping out into the real world. The artsy avatars will join a live audience at Cameraworks from 5-8 p.m. for "Identity Theft Virtual," an interactive piece…
Remember when the only downside to excessive typing was carpal tunnel? Now, experts predict fundamental changes to how we read, think, and learn, all thanks to our technological obsessions. To better understand your changing brain, head to Wilson Sonsini for "iBrain: Surviving the Technological Alteration of the…
Are you an orphan entrepreneur looking for your Daddy Warbucks? The Knight News Challenge has $5 million up for grabs for innovative online news and social media sites. Hey, it worked for Adrian Holovaty's EveryBlock. If you have an idea but need a boost getting your application in gear before the November 1 deadline,…
Conference roll call: Today the SanFran MusicTech Summit brings tech geeks, musicians, entrepreneurs, legal counsel, and the kitchen sink to the Hotel Kabuki for a one-day conference on the music landscape online. The Plug and Play Acceleration Trackhosts a two-day seminar on international cooperation and innovation.…
Oh, decisions. You can spend your Friday night watching yet another Internet star take his act off YouTube, or you can cowboy up and tackle national security from a comfy conference room on the Peninsula. Option A? Head to Cobbs at 8 p.m. for Bo Burnham. Burnham's existential diddies of a suburban white boy include…
Tonight, leave Intel outside. Representatives from One Laptop Per Child are here to tell you why the project's cute, cheap laptop designed for poor kids in developing countries is worthy of adoption. Edward Mokurai Cherlin, founder of Earth Treasury, will be giving an OLPC update at Apple Headquarters in Cupertino at…
Rest assured that if there's beer, it's here on the calendar. As long as the venture-capital-funded spigots are open, that is. Tonight Yoono and Hubpages are doing their part to keep your bar tab down at "Tweets and Dreenks" at the House of Shields. Try to leave work on time for once. The open bar closes at 7:30 p.m.…
Savor a tell-all evening of sex, lies, and teenage angst. To find out why there is more to Internet indecency than simply baring it all, join Valleywag's much missed provocateur, Melissa Gira Grant, at the Center for Sex and Culture. She'll be sharing all the dirty details about "Blogging Sex" from 7-9 p.m.…
Dell's attempt to trademark "cloud computing" was about as plausible as Columbus's discovery of America. (Someone else got there first, buddy!) But is the migration to the Internet cloud as inevitable as coming to America? To see what's in store for enterprise on the cloud computing frontier head to SAP Labs from 6 -…
Put the tech in techno tonight. San Francisco's Apple Store on Stockton is "Making Electronic Music with Tenori-On." The digital instrument uses a grid sequencer and LEDs to create a bizarre visual soundscape even Björk could love. Would you rather spend your night playing Rock Band? You're in luck. On Saturday, Rock…
A glut of online health sites makes it easier than ever before for individuals to procrastinate on calling the doctor by surfing the Web. Discuss the rise of Joe Six Pack, Web M.D. at tonight's Search SIG at the Microsoft Conference Center in Mountain View, Building 1, at 6:30 p.m. To improve your sales performance,…
If your sunshine comes in the form of free alcohol, then drink up the liquid happy at Wikreate's "Celebrate the Crisis Party." Basking in the affordable luxury of the Soma Grand, the communications agency/social network will be celebrating its recent Echo award. But this isn't an AIG affair. The agency ishawking the…
There is no place to hide from the economy's self-destruction. But while mass market hysteria ravages the trading room floor, just be cool. Women 2.0 will be at the Institute for the Future forecasting the outlook for funding at "Staying Cool with Your Startup During the Financial Meltdown" from 6-9 p.m. If the real…
You already know the dirty truth: Oprah is wrong. What you need to succeed is money, talent, and a small army of overeducated lawyers. To discover how these forces can help you rule the universe, make your way over to the VC Taskforce's "Secrets For Setting Your Business Up for Success" from 6-9 p.m at Pillsbury…
It's a bluegrass, LoveFest, Litquake kind of weekend. So while you're kicking back and letting the best of the English language wash over you, make room in your head for another voice. For the first time in San Francisco, Improv Everywhere is asking anyone who's available at 2 p.m. on Saturday to meet in Dolores…
While Biden and Palin posture like peacocks, you can avoid the debate while learning to build, debug and deploy widgets of mass compatibility. The PHP meetup is reveling in Adobe Flex and Adobe Air with Danny Dura, technical evangelist for Adobe, at CNET's SoMa headquarters starting at 7 p.m. Tomorrow, keep the app…
