Liquid Brand Summit '08 is underway: Figure out how to brand your company with the likes of Rod Swanson of EA and Nick Chavez of Yahoo. SMX West, the search-engine marketing exposition is starting today and continuing until Thursday. Virtual World Goes Mobile is an event for those "crossing the chasm from the Internet" to mobile for those who want to enable more reasons to drive while using your cell phone. Tonight, Happy Networking Hour is happening at Sandbox Suites. Web Services SIG is talking mashups over in Palo Alto be discussed. (Drinking game: Take a swig every time someone mentions a Google Maps mashup.) The Yahoo Pattern Library and YUI Library communities are celebrating their 2nd birthday at Yahoo HQ, and while Upcoming shows a limit of 150 guests with 197 RSVP'd, we're guessing there may be some open spots for crashing.