I‘m so pleased to announce that Dogster/Catster are co-sponoring a party at SXSWi for the first time. It’s open to all attendees but bring your badge.

This really means a lot to me even though this will be my 6th year in a row. The first year I arrived knowing no one and slept on a couch. Same goes for the second, but I made a number of contacts that were instrumental to Dogster’s early maturation. By the third year Steven and John were going and I led my first panel on DIY Web Development (note a pre-Lifehacker Gina Trapani joined me =) and Dogster.com won the People’s Choice award.

Last year we brought 4 employees and this year we are taking 8! Each year, each person has left with an overflow of great insight, research, connections, inspiration and free maragaritas. We are very pleased to be able to give some back this year.

So come to our party we’re co-hosting with our good freinds at Get Satisfaction, Laughing Squid, Pownce, 30 Boxes, Joyent, ComicVine and Rocketboom. The venue is huge, the bar is open and there will be some killer local acts. It’s a little far from Convention Center but you can walk (I did last year) and you won’t need to leave once you are there.

Oh yeah, we’ll be paneling and conversing again.