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For all of our startup friends from coast to coast and around the world, we look forward to seeing you at SXSW Interactive!

More and more, we're seeing good folks creating great products outside the SF Bay Area, and we love highlighting and showcasing vibrant startup communities in unexpected areas. As it turns out, we're not the only ones who have a penchant for non-Valley startups! While you're in Austin, check out these ten panels, parties and events focusing on entrepreneurialism outside Silicon Valley.

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South by Southwest Interactive is a favorite conference for many a geeky programmer, and its no wonder why. The talent, learning opportunities and free booze run deep and wide at this show.

We've compiled a list of ten must-see, must-do panels, parties and events - and don't worry, we won't be sending you to three identical core conversations on JavaScript.

From Google's Hackathon to Facebook's Developer Garage and beyond, you'll get to learn from (and drink with) some of the greatest minds behind the greatest companies of the Web.

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As a tech conference strongly linked to an epic music festival, SXSW Interactive is the perfect place for music and tech geeks to converge.

Musicians, get ready to nerd out and learn how to sell your wares and increase your fanbase online. And geeks, get ready to let your love for music show. Perhaps with a little cooperation and cross-discipline interaction, this whole "music on the Internet" thing will work out, after all.

Check out these ten parties, panels and events sure to delight the most musical of geeks - and the most geeky of musicians.

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Whether you make your living as a professional pixel pusher or you simply hold yourself to a higher aesthetic standard, South by Southwest has a rich and varied stream of opportunities for designers.

We've put together a list of ten essential places, parties, panels and other events to help you tailor your SXSW 2010 experience to your own individual interests.

From Web typography to "WTF WordPress?", SXSW rocks for web designers in particular. And the many social events also include a few rich, interactive visual experiences, as well. Read on, and let us know you favorite Austin spots in the comments.

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Social media? Oh, please. Some of these sessions are so 2009. How can you have any fun at SXSW this year if you can't see any real innovation.

If space shuttles, cyborgs and technological singularity are what make you bleep and bloop, you're going to love these ten events at SXSW Interactive 2010. At the very least you'll get to share beer with a few cool hardware hackers, learn more about lunar exploration or get involved with a crowdsourced science project.

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So, you've booked your passage, you've made sleeping arrangements, you've got your Interactive Badge all lined up and you just can't wait for the second week of March to roll around. You're a first-time SXSW attendee!

We know the feeling: The manic excitement, the trepidation, the wondering which essential knickknack you'll forget to pack. We were once South By Newbies, too.

Here's our list of ten sessions, events and venues you absolutely must hit up on your first foray into South by Southwest Interactive.