SXSWi: Web Awards 2009 Winners

The annual SXSW Conference has announced it's Web Awards 2009 winners list. Always loads of great places to visit. 

http://tinyurl.com/cznyso

Comic relief

The idea is great, but it's the sheer organisational ability that really blew us away.

After minds have finished boggling and moved on, that's what our minds are doing

This is a photo from the Inauguration of Barak Obama, In which you can see IN FOCUS, more or less, the face of each individual in the crowd. Lorks oh lordy!
 
You can scan, double click and zoom to any section of the crowd.  .  . wait a few seconds.  .  . and the focus adjusts.

We have it on no less an authority than Mark, our turn it off and turn it on again man, that the picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 megapixels (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera). He's frightfully clever with widgets and whatnots so we expect he's right.

Follow the arrows

Have a look at http://tinyarro.ws and make tiny urls that are even more tiny than tiny urls made by tiny url.

To demonstrate ...

Here is the tiny URL linking to tinyarrow.ws http://tinyurl.com/b7uxhy

And here is the tinyarrow to Tiny URL http://➡.ws/뚋

What fun!