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::OpMom Web 2.0 Launch Party at Benjy's:: Three things we love: Moms, Web 2.0, and Benjy's. Can't go wrong here. And Houstonist has your ticket to this private launch party. Unless you've been living under a Web 1.0 rock, you are probably aware that Houston has recently been a hot bed for Social Media Startups, as Brad Hem reported this weekend. One of these ventures, the locally-based OpMom, tonight celebrates their own jaunt into Web...

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. StartUp Weekend Houston "Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance to gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend." If that interests you, head over to houston.startupweekend.com and get your reservation. StartupWeekend Houston is limited to the first 100 participants and space is limited. Andrew Hyde, Startup Weekend founder will be on hand along with Gwen Bell of Blogger,...

Today’s Photo of the Day comes from flickr user and Houstonist photo contributor Blue_Kingdom. It's an HDR image that was taken on his cameraphone, a Sony Ericsson K750i. Not bad, huh?

It was 10 years ago today that the music world lost Jeff Buckley. The musician drowned after taking a midnight swim in the Mississippi River during a break from recording his sophomore album. Yes, he only released one studio album while he was alive, the critically acclaimed Grace, which was released in 1994 but didn’t reach gold status (500,000 copies sold) until 2002. In memory of Buckley’s passing, Sony has released So Real: Songs from...

Houstonist loves good music, and has often complained about the mediocrity found on local radio. According to the Associated Press, there may be break in crappy local radio, due to two new deals that the major radio conglomerates have reached with the government and independent record labels.

Since Shakira will be shaking her groove thang (did we just say that??) at the Toyota Center tonight for the Houston stop of her Oral Fixation Tour, we felt it fitting to throw down a list of Shakira facts. For starters, did you know that her hit song “Hips Don’t Lie” is the most played song in the history of radio? Ever? It is. Here are some more Shakira tidbits: Birth Name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak...

Have you ever needed — and we use that term loosely, because we know how easily "need" turns to "want" — something from the Apple store, but you didn't want to deal with Galleria traffic? Well, soon you'll have the opportunity to deal with Katy Freeway traffic insead: Apple is opening a new store at Memorial City this weekend. The grand opening is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, just in time to pick something up...

We've been hearing for years that printed newspapers are on their way out — first because of the Internet, then those e-book readers — and yet we still get newsprint all over our hands every morning. But there might actually be a functional e-newspaper just around the corner, and according to Reuters, the Chronicle may be among the first papers to test the technology later this year.