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ShowClix gets you into the Super Bowl party hotspots!

ShowClix, great supporter of AlphaLab and Innovation Works portfolio company, has an important role in the activities going on in conjunction with Super Bowl XLIII.  They were recently covered by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for landing several high profile Super Bowl parties going on in the week leading up to the big game.

Heading down to Tampa?  Diddy and Deion Sanders headline the extravaganza as part of the Good Life Experience.  Want to meet Playboy Playmates and models, or are professional athletes both current (Ray Lewis and Reggie Bush) and former (Earl Christy and Joe Namath) more your speed?  ShowClix offers a great way to get into these hot events with tickets issued electronically in a no-muss no-fuss fashion.

(ShowClix is a Pittsburgh-based event search engine and online ticketing company created to connect artists, venues and event promoters with the millions of people around the world that are seeking local events. The website combines an open, event database with an online ticketing platform, giving event promoters, artists and venues an easy, affordable way to promote their events and sell tickets to users who search for, track and share events on the site.)

Refresh Pittsburgh at AlphaLab tonight from 7:00-9:00!

Tonight AlphaLab will be hosting Refresh Pittsburgh from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.

Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area.

Tonight’s speakers are Val Head from New Perspective (speaking on “Observations on Client Relationships and How We Deal with Them”) and Samantha Warren from Viget Labs (presenting “Typography is the Foundation of Good Web Design”).

If you are a web developer or interested in web design and technology, please consider joining us!  Refreshments and Wi-Fi will be provided!

Hope to see you there!

Upcoming Event: DevHouse Pittsburgh 5 at AlphaLab (Oct 2 at 6:00 PM)

AlphaLab will be hosting DevHouse Pittsburgh 5 starting at 6:00 PM on Thursday, October 2nd and lasting until midnight.

From the organizers of DevHouse Pittsburgh:

We’re about rapid development, ad-hoc collaboration, and cross pollination. Whether you’re a l33t hax0r, hardcore coder, or passionate designer, if you enjoy software and technology development, DevHouse Pittsburgh is for you.

DevHouse is not a marketing event. It’s a non-exclusive event intended for passionate and creative technical and design people that want to have some fun, learn new things, and meet new people.

Members of the AlphaLab team will be presenting a lightning talk about the AlphaLab program and the application process.

If you are a developer and are interesting in sharing, learning, and talking about technology in a open collaborative space… you should come down to the AlphaLab on Thursday!

Upcoming Event: Open Coffee Club at AlphaLab (Oct 1st at 9 AM)

This Wednesday, we’re hosting the Open Coffee Club of Pittsburgh at the AlphaLab offices at 2325 E. Carson in the Southside.

What is Open Coffee?

The main goal of Open Coffee is to make investment more transparent to entrepreneurs, and to move away from the formalized “pitch” to an open conversation. Investors can give entrepreneurs really valuable feedback, and this environment is meant to foster that in a pressure-free way.

The AlphaLab team will also be available to answer questions about our program and the open application cycle.

If you’re a entrepreneur this is a great event to have informal conversation, speak with others about your business, and learn about AlphaLab!

Open Coffee starts at 9 AM.  You can read more here (http://www.mypunchbowl.com/partypage/3b3e47b197ef0270)

Hope to see you there!

AlphaLab Application Cycle for Winter/Spring 2009 now open!

Applications!

(Flickr Photo by Presta)

Have a great idea in the software or web space?  Have a working version already?  Think you’re doing something innovative around gaming?   Interested in spending 20-weeks in a great, collaborative space interacting with advisors and experts with $25k to boot?

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting submissions from prospective applicants for our next cycle!  The application is submitted online, and can be saved so that you can resume it at a later time.  We also provide a readable version of the application to review beforehand, so you know what to expect.

We also love people with lots of great ideas… so if you have more than one please submit it!  However, note that you have to create a separate ID and submit a separate application.

Applications will be reviewed as they come in, so we encourage you to apply sooner rather than later.  The application period closes on October 15th, and we’ll be conducting interviews with selected companies in late October.

Good luck!