Friday
2:00pm - Making a Grant Entrance: How to Launch a Product
3:30pm - Show Me the Money: Where to Get Funding and What Are They Interested In?
5:00pm - Altimeter Group Cocktails at The Brown Bar
8:00pm - Techset Party at The Parish
Midnight - Party-hopping

Saturday
9:30am - Help Wanted: Hunting High & Low for Digital Talent
11:00am - (Not Just) Shit Startups Say: Anatomy of a Rockstar Product Cycle
2:00pm - SXSW Co-Founder Speed Dating
3:30pm - Finding Co-Founders: the Who, Why, Where & How
5:00pm - PARTIES! Find me on foursquare

Sunday
11:00am - Startup Breakthrough: Speed Coaching for Founders
12:30am - Adding Value As a Non-Technical No Talent Assclown
2:00pm - Allhat 4: Mootown's Greatest Hits
3:30pm - Investor Spotting 2012
5:00pm - Big Data: Privacy Threat or Business Model?
7:00pm - MORE PARTIES! Find me on foursquare

Monday
11:00am - Wonder Woman (documentary)
2:00pm - Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit (Ray Kurzweil Keynote!!!)
3:30pm - The End of Business As Usual (Brian Solis Keynote, with special guest Billy Corgan, lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins!!!)
6:30pm - Pitch Some Good
8:00pm - PARTIES!.... you get the pattern here.

This schedule is highly subject to change, so shoot me a tweet at @Zak_Kirchner or @digthevibe if you want to meet up. If you know of any parties, events or sessions that are can't miss, let me know! I'm keeping my expectations low for the weekend and trying to go with the flow.

Good Vibes.

If you want to connect this week, there are a number of ways to get my attention. You can email me at zak (at) digthevibe.com, tweet me at @Zak_Kirchner or @digthevibe, find me on foursquare or write on my Facebook wall.

Please also take a second to "like" digthevibe on Facebook. I'll write a full post explaining what I'm doing at digthevibe and how we're going to change the world, but for now you'll just have to track me down and hear the pitch in person. One of my top goals for the weekend is to refine our story and pitch for potential investors.

Speaking of, we are looking for funding... a lot of funding. digthevibe is a very ambitious idea with a potentially explosive business model and we're going to need a lot of money to pull it off. If you know any investors who I should talk to, I would love to meet them.

Good Vibes,
Zak Kirchner
Co-Founder & CEO

It's true, we are almost ready to go.... 

The dig the vibe team are having a lot of fun over at turntable.fm dropping beats. Come on over and check us out.

A little late night dig the vibe app testing. We are getting close and can't wait for people to dig the vibe. Did you dig the vibe of that....bar? club? concert? movie premiere? opera? street festival? anything... real-time event and place ratings online and on your phone.

For those of you that haven't, head on over and like our new Facebook page to get updates and special offers. http://www.facebook.com/digthevibe

Flux Pavilion and Dr. P are on their first U.S. tour of all time this summer, and let me tell you, the fans in Chicago were ready. We have never seen the Congress theater so crazy, and for good reason. Everyone wanted to see these top Dubstep/Drum and Bass Dj's throw it down hard, and that they did just that! These guys were blasting the bass so loud you could feel the floor and walls vibrating, while drinks on tables were falling over.

Watch this Short clip of Dr. P throwing it down! P.S. check out that crowd, crazinesss!!!

It was awesome to see so many people all get together like that, and great see that everyone there was digging the vibe. The place was packed to capacity and every single person in the place was getting down serious style to some massive tunes from Flux Pavilion and Dr. P. The show was so epic this was Flux Pavilion's facebook post later that night:

Thanks Flux, you made ours!! Come back anytime! Good vibes all around.

So it's summer and festival season. Everyone's rolling out to the fields, barns, and massive tents to hear the good stuff. The past 5 years the festival scene has really exploded. Before it used to be large groups of band wanderers - you'd follow the Grateful Dead or Widespread Panic for the summer and that was how it went down. Now massive festivals are in every city and comprise bands from every genre. Although it's hard to boil it down to just five - these are the dig the vibe all time top 5 how to pack for a festival tips.

1. Bring something fun and crazy to do when you aren't at the shows. Think campground fun - guitars, drums, frisbees, or digeridoos. The activities will also help you make festival friends with those around you and keep you feeling it.

2. Pack clothes that look clean even when they are super dirty. Showers are often a luxury at these gatherings, so make sure you can wear and re-wear some of your duds. Reverse it, water bottle wash it, and hang out it to dry.

3. Bring a grocery bag of your favorite snacks from home or wherever. But only bring one bag - don't go crazy with the food. Biting into your favorite snack bar or treat will go a long way when you are tired, been dancing all day, and just can't move from your tent.

4. Bring along a camel-bak or multiple ways to hydrate. People can go a week without food, but die quickly without water. Hydration is key. Even if you aren't thirsty keep drinking. Pack powdered Gatorade or whatever you need to stay hydrated. It will keep you going and digging the vibe all weekend long.

5. Last but certainly not least - pack efficiently. Don't bring too much stuff. Or to little.  Be strategic and understand that everything you pack needs to have a purpose. Also don't forget the essentials - water, clothes, and fun stuff. Toiletries optional (j/k bring a way to clean off with a water bottle and t-shirt).

Have fun and stay safe out there kids. Put on them dancing feet.

Because this is what the kids are into. Skrillex's hotter than a tv dinner. Anything bumping. Give it the beat. Boom. Happy Monday night from all of us here @digthevibe

Since we are getting closer to release over here at dig the vibe, we decided to put up a new website at http://digthevibe.com, with a way to sign up to be a part of the beta testing and a countdown. Check it out...