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SXSW Interactive Web Awards Announces Winners

Posted on: Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 17:00 CDT

12th Annual SXSW Interactive Web Awards Ceremony honors forward thinking technology

AUSTIN, Texas, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- On March 15, the SXSW Web Awards, sponsored by Adobe, honored 20 of the top Web developers and designers chosen from hundreds of entries submitted across the world. Baratunde Thurston, editor of the The Onion and clever political commentator for popular destinations such as Jack & Jill Politics, The Huffington Post, DailyKos and his own site baratunde.com, emceed the 2009 Web Awards Ceremony, which named winners in 20 content categories, including "People's Choice" and "Best of Show."

"As the Interactive festival sees exciting growth year after year, we are continually amazed by the highly innovative companies that submit entries for the Web Awards," explained SXSW Web Awards Producer, Shawn O'Keefe. "We would like to applaud all the 2009 Web Awards winners and are thrilled to see what the future holds for each of these companies." For a complete list of Web Awards winner, see the below list or visit the SXSW site here: http://sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/winners.

Activism Tweet Congress tweetcongress.org Amusement Addictionary addictionary.org Art Things I Have Learned in my Life, So Far thingsihavelearnedinmylife.com Blog The Bygone Bureau bygonebureau.com Business Jasmax jasmax.com Classic Flickr flickr.com Community Lost Zombies lostzombies.com CSS ProjectMiso projectmiso.net Educational Resource The Cycle explorethecycle.com Experimental We Tell Stories wetellstories.co.uk Film/TV Hulu hulu.com Games Why So Serious? The Dark Knight Alternate Reality Game www.alternaterealitybranding.com/tdk_sxsw Mobile Gigotron www.gigotron.com Motion Graphics NVIDIA Speak Visual www.speakvisual.com Music James Zabiela jameszabiela.com Personal Portfolio Ali Felski alifelski.com Student Modernity Spirit of Experimentation www.pedrovillegas.net/modernity Technical Achievement Aviary a.viary.com People's Choice Award Lost Zombies lostzombies.com Best of Show We Tell Stories wetellstories.co.uk

About SXSW Interactive Festival

Scheduled March 13-17 in Austin, Texas, the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival provides practical how-to information as well as unparalleled career inspiration, bringing together some of emerging technology's most creative thinkers. The event features five days of keynote sessions, more than 200 panels, the SXSW Web Awards, the Interactive and Film Trade Show & Exhibition, the ScreenBurn Arcade, the Microsoft BizSpark Accelerator at SXSW, and dozens of exciting evening events. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. For more information on SXSW Interactive, visit sxsw.com/interactive.

CONTACT: Tammy Lynn Gilmore Press + Publicity, SXSW Interactive Office Phone: 512-467-7979 x.217 E-mail: tammy@sxsw.com

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