The location-based social networking space continues to heat up, and two horses lately seem to be separating from the pack — Foursquare and Austin-based Gowalla (both launched at this year’s SXSW in March).

Our friends at Twitter rolled out their much-anticipated Lists feature to all users today. The new capability is very useful for finding and following users in certain verticals or categories, and we think that it is reasonable to expect an explosion in list-making over the weekend. ReadWriteWeb has a great piece on Lists, which includes their 10 favorites thus far. In honor of the new feature, we here at Austin Startup and Startup District have [...]

On October 14, Joel Spolsky and Stack Overflow will be in town for the Austin leg of the their DevDays tour, co-presented by Carsonified (the most excellent Brits behind the FoWA family of conferences). Our own Jason Cohen from SmartBear is also speaking.

We’re reporting here live from the TC50 show floor, where Austin-based Spawn Labs just presented their demo. Spawn Labs makes it possible to play your Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PS3 and Gamecube from anywhere in the world with a broadband internet connection. It is essentially a “Slingbox for games”. The unit is priced at $199, and as of today’s launch Spawn Labs is taking pre-orders.

Manuel Rosso, formerly of Dell’s desktop group and IMVU Inc., a social media startup (co-founded by guru Eric Ries) has raised $2 million from Austin Ventures, the Statesman’s Lori Hawkins reports. The new company was incubated at AV over the last year, where Rosso served as an Entrepreneur-In-Residence. Austin Startup can additionally confirm that Rosso has hired ex-FiveRuns VP of Development and Technology Steve Sanderson as the VP of Product of the new company. Sanderson [...]

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