For those of you headed to Austin, Daylife CEO Upendra Shardanand is presenting on a SXSW Interactive panel called “Hacking the News: Applying Computer Science to Journalism“.  The panel is on Sunday, March 13.

The description:

Reporters and editors work in ways that are still largely tied to old print and broadcast models. Applying lessons from computer science can help make journalism more scalable, flexible and personalized.

This panel will discuss developments such as object-oriented programming, model-view controller frameworks, database-driven Web applications and social code repositories — and explore how these principles can be applied to journalism and create the future of storytelling.

For example, making stories in an object-oriented mindset can help journalists work more efficiently, reusing and building on past work. Stories can be created as structured data that can be mashed up and viewed in more flexible ways by readers. Readers can get personalized stories that highlight what’s new to them — rather than having to read through what they already know to glean the latest news.

We’ll also be at the New York Startup Meetup w/ 27 different NYC startups, including folks from Foursquare, Etsy, Zemanta, Meetup, and Hashable. There’ll be demos, VCs, lots of networking, and demos.

Info on the Startup Meetup:

http://nycstartupmeetup.tumblr.com/

http://nycstartupmeetup.eventbrite.com/

Twitter: @nystartupmeetup  |  #nycsxsw

Hope we see you there!