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- 2009 is the 12th year for the awards
- 18 categories
- We Tell Stories won Best of Show
- 2008 winners included World Without Oil, Elf Yourself, Wired, Flock and Kongregate
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Each year during the South By Southwest Interactive festival, awards are presented in various categories to the best websites of the previous year. The 2009 awards, presented by Adobe, were given out in a ceremony at the Hilton in Downtown Austin on March 15 at 7:00 pm. The emcee was comic Baratunde Thurston, a writer for The Onion.
Literary game site We Tell Stories, a project made in conjunction with Penguin Books, won in the Experimental category and also took the title of Best in Show. Other winners included the iPhone application Gigotron, streaming video site Hulu, the blog The Bygone Bureau and the photo sharing community Flickr.
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2009 Winners
- Best of Show: We Tell Stories
- Activism: Tweet Congress
- Amusement: Addictionary
- Art: Things I Have Learned in my Life, So Far
- Blogs: The Bygone Bureau
- Business: Jasmax
- CSS: ProjectMiso
- Classic: Flickr
- Community: Lost Zombies
- Educational Resource: The Cycle
- Entertainment: Hulu
- Experimental: We Tell Stories
- Games: Why So Serious? The Dark Knight Alternate Reality Game
- Mobile: Gigotron
- Motion Graphics: NVIDIA Speak Visual
- Music: James Zabiela
- Personal Portfolio: Ali Felski
- Student: Modernity Spirit of Experimentation
- Technical Achievement: Aviary
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South by Southwest Web Awards Questions
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How many cities does Southwest commute? 1 AnswerFrom wikipedia: "As of August 2009, Southwest Airlines operates scheduled service to 67 destinations." Map the top cities served by southwest "Las Vegas, Chicag... read more -
What are the best bands playing SXSW? 1 AnswerOut of all these bands playing... **Bishop Allen **Au Revoir Simone **Beach House **Andrew Bird **Buck 65 **Camera Obscura **Margaret Cho **The Crystal ... read more -
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South by Southwest Web Awards News and Blogs
- Twitter Search: SXSW Web Awards
- ZDNet: Adobe Web Awards at SxSWi 2009 (March 15, 2009)
- GoodCrimeThink: Behind the scenes photo from the web awards at #sxsw (March 15, 2009)
- ReadWriteWeb: ReadWriteWeb's Guide to the SXSW Web Awards Finalists (March 13, 2009)
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Best in Show
- We Tell Stories
Amusement
- Addictionary (Winner)
- CrappyCat
- GirlGamer.com
- Pixton
- UPS Regifter
Blogs
- The Big Picture
- The Bygone Bureau (Winner)
- Dumb As A Blog
- OneRiot
- Postcards From Yo Momma
CSS
- Eden Sessions
- Trevor Exter
- Mint.com
- Noisefreak.com
- ProjectMiso (Winner)
Classic
- Ars Technica
- Flickr (Winner)
- Instructables
- Picnik
- StumbleUpon
Community
- Delicious 2.0
- Fluther
- Lost Zombies (Winner)
- Protagonize
- Trusera
Entertainment
- Flight of the Conchords Lip Dub
- Hulu (Winner)
- In Plain Sight: WITSEC Confidential
- Jinni
- Secret Location
Mobile
- AP Mobile News Network
- Brightkite
- Gigotron (Winner)
- Pikchur
- Please Fix the iPhone
