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ArenaFest Aims To Bring Social Networking, Unsigned Bands (And Lacrosse!) To Live Events
ArenaFest Aims To Bring Social Networking, Unsigned Bands (And Lacrosse!) To Live Events
Next summer, you and all your so-called friends from Facebook and MySpace will be able to finally meet in a giant arena, where you ill be able to play dating games, compete against each other in Guitar Hero or Lacrosse, listen to live bands, or check out the modeling contest. The event will ...
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Tech Observer — ... Woodstock for social networking: "ArenaFest" aims to bring people out from behind their computers and into the real world. [TechCrunch] ...

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