[Editor: The first batch of 200 are already gone, but we expect more to be released]

The folks at TechCrunch are having an event the night before Austin City Limits. It was just announced on their blog, and they released 200 tickets to the event at $10 each (proceeds going to charity).

If you thought the Mashable event was off the hook, this one might be an even bigger deal.

Note: The calendar says 5:30 – 10:00 Pacific, which would be 7:30 – Midnight local time. Just so you don’t show up 2 hours early, OK? If this event is like the Mashable event, the next batch of tickets will be more expensive, so buy now.

Sounds like there will be demo tables too. Not sure how much they cost yet, but if you find out please hit the comments and let us know.

Austin-based SpiceWorks presented at the AlwaysOn conference recently. Company co-founder and CMO Jay Hallberg gave an update on the Company’s progress, including user count which is now over 400,000. It’s really a brilliant business model in a traditionally hard to reach market (SMB).

You can find the video here (just fixed the link).

Several companies gave 5-minute presentations on their companies, although SpiceWorks and nGenera seemed to be the only two Austin-based companies represented at the conference with nGenera CEO Steve Papermaster being on a panel titled “Will the Next Salesforce.com Please Stand Up?” Apparently Salesforce.com is the next Web 3.0 company, according to the definition of Web 3.0 given by Mark Benioff. Since Salesforce.com is going to become the world’s data center, I guess the people who stood up in that session were Google, Sun, and Amazon?

Note: I started this post with the new WordPress app on the iPhone, but I can’t immediately see some features that I’m used to. So I posted a draft then finished up on the web. Good first effort though, and will come in handy at events.