I’m back in the “real” world now. It was a great few days at SXSW and a great experience for .tv.

For those of you that may have missed Friday’s post, we had a lot of .tv activities going on at SXSW. If you didn’t get a chance to go Austin, don’t stress, you can still participate by:

• Taking advantage of the special offer here: http://southby.tv/offer
• Checking out Southby.tv which is our site for the event — a curated, living diary of South by 2010 as submitted by the people who attended.
• Submitting your entry to be the next .tv star and win a prize: We’re not just giving you a chance to have your SXSW clips appear on our site; we’re giving you a chance to win a cool prize package and a shot at being a correspondent for an upcoming Best of .tv web show. The prize includes an all expense paid trip to San Francisco where you’ll spend the day backstage at Revision3 and get a private video production coaching session from Diggnation producer Dave Prager, one of the guys behind one of the web’s most widely watched video series. And of course, you could become a Best of .tv correspondent…Just visit Southby.tv to submit an audition directly (and to learn all the rules and legal stuff, of course.)
• Or, by watching the Diggnation show in the comfort of your own cube here: http://revision3.com/diggnation/sxsw2010?hp

Beside the .tv events, I managed to attend a number of sessions at the convention center. I tried to steer towards the ones on video…this being .tv. HTML5 seemed a hot topic there (hey, they don’t call it geek spring break for nothing). The potential there is really starting to sink in to me, and it should be interesting to see where that goes.

I also managed a few non-video sessions that peaked my interest. I got to hear about Augmented Reality, Web of Things: Connecting People and Objects on the Web; and one of my favorite speakers (Clay Shirky) with a great title for his terrific talk :  Monkeys with Internet Access: Sharing, Human Nature, and Digital Data

This was my first time there, and I have to say, it’s everything it’s rumored to be. Lively discussion. Tons of networking. Lots of pub crawling. Great music. And, fascinating discussions on the the business we’re all in. I highly recommend it.

Oh yeah,  and I got a t-shirt too (3 of them actually).