Web Design in Oklahoma City

Day 4 of SXSW was primarily a travel day as we made our way back north to Oklahoma City. But before we left town, we did have time for a couple of morning sessions:

Content Management System Roundup
This panel featured evangelists of several popular content management systems.  This is the key - they were evangelists and not representatives of the organizations so they could be open about their impressions. Each panelist discussed the good and bad of their favorite CMS systems. It was a great way to learn more about the ways that they differ and the features for which the public is clamoring.

How to Rawk After SXSW: Staying Inspired
This consisted of both SXSW verterans and rookies who shared their strategies for taking the information and inspiration gained at the conference back home to their lives and work. There was lots of great information about taking the overwhelming knowledge, amazing inspiration, and raw energy back to work. Attending SXSW is a special experience and it's our job to take what we've learned back to those who didn't get to go.

Since Day 4 was short, this is a good place to share some of my favorite links from the conference:

• BrightSpot Information Design
  Live visual notes that accompanied the opening keynote.
• BrightQube
  Beautiful web UI for browsing stock photography
• Vidoop
  These guys are based just up the road from us in Tulsa. They say their product is the end of passwords. I think I believe it.
• Bitstrips
  A fun website that lets anyone create and share comic strips - no artistic skill needed.
• Opera Dragonfly
  Opera was all over the conference teasing this new product with a Spinal Tap-style metal motif. My guess is that it's a developer tool/debugger similar to Firefox's Firebug extension.
• Blurb
  Blurb showed off an online tool for making beautiful books - especially for photographers. Real books. Remember those?
• SocialThing!
  SocialThing! is a new social aggregation tool that takes similar tools like FriendFeed a step further by allowing you to follow anyone with an RSS feed - even users who don't use SocialThing!
• Flickr tag: SXSWi
  Public photos from the conference via Flickr.
• 2008 SXSW Web Awards Winners
  Be sure to take a look at the best of the best. There are lots of great websites here.