Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Conferenceer: A SXSWi networking app and more

OK, this is just deeply cool. Conferenceer is a SXSW Interactive-centric social networking app and content aggregator with several great features. Post a profile on the site, then browse the list of panels. You can add a panel (or a day’s worth) to iCal, follow the feeds of presenters on the site or in your favorite newsreader (through OPML downloads) and create XFN-ish lists of attendees you’d like to keep in touch with.

Perhaps the neatest thing about Conferenceer is that it represents at once two fantastic things about SXSW Interactive. First, that folks such as creator Jacob Patton are so passionate about the conference that they take it upon themselves to build nifty tools like this, and second, that it attracts such big, delicious, nimble brains. (Jacob says he built the site “in the wee hours of the early days of March, 2007”. I mean, I barely managed to make two or three weblog posts in that time and this genius went and built a hugely useful application.)