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9rules Wins Best Community Site of the Year, Avalonstar Wins Best Weblog of the Year
Written by Mike Rundle on March 15, 2006
There’s a lot that can be said about SXSW this year, however the two most important things that happened in our world include 9rules winning Best Community Site of the Year, and 9rules member and close friend Bryan Veloso from Avalonstar winning Best Blog of the Year. These web awards just verify what we already knew, but it was nice to hear some major cheering from the entire ball room when our names blew up. A big thanks goes to everyone who is a part of 9rules or supports the thing we’ve got going here, like I said in the acceptance speech, 9rules wouldn’t be a very good community site without the community formed in and around it 
Other things that happened this year at SXSW include our fearless CEO getting really sick and needing some medical attention (he’s feeling better now); Business Logs co-founder Matthew Oliphant getting assaulted and then nearly arrested; me meeting Dan Rubin and realizing 1) he’s not dead, and 2) he’s really cool; some friends of mine redesigning Craigslist and doing a rockin’ job; and all of our 9rules members are a ton of fun in person. Here are some Flickr pictures from the event that describe the SXSW conference pretty well:
March 15th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Awesome. Sorry I missed it…
March 15th, 2006 at 11:30 am
I guess this is the official congradulations post. Congradulations!
March 15th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Man, you guys had an eventfully night…I would have probably gotten thrown in jail. Pizza on your face doesn’t promote rational thought. Looks like Garrett deserves the unofficial SXSW peace prize.
March 15th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
[...] and Avalonstar win Web Awards at SXSW By Colin D. Devroe with no reader comments Rundle has the story. Congratulations to Bryan and the entire 9rules Network. Leav [...]
March 15th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
Nerds!
March 15th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
Congrats 9rules! I really wish I could have been there to join in on the fun.
March 15th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Congratulations to the network and to all its members!
March 15th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
Congrats guys!
–Joe
March 16th, 2006 at 2:17 am
You guys are bad role models, now I’m going to have to skip a week of classes next year to make it out! Haha, looks like everyone had a blast.
March 16th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
[...] Guy Kawasaki joins the 9rules Network By Colin D. Devroe with no reader comments The Best Community Site of the Year just got bigger. Guy Kawasaki joins the 9rules Network. [...]
March 16th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
[...] . We’re a little bit older, a little bit wiser, and a little more appreciative of 9rules. So, where does this leave us? It’s beginning to feel like r [...]
March 17th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Yaaaay! Congrats to everyone!
April 5th, 2006 at 10:10 pm
[...] ng in, not to mention the 9rules network (with which I am affiliated) taking the prize for best community site of the year, I had to touch on it to make sure everyone who reads this is [...]
February 13th, 2007 at 11:25 am
[...] Well, that’s not exactly a fair title. 9rules has been a member based blog aggregator since it’s inception, which is social in nature. However, the only way to contribute to the conversation on the 9rules site was as a member accepted via a tough, annual screening. The blog aggregator made a name for itself as a source of high quality blogs. With their previous version, 9rules introduced Notes, which allowed anyone to sign up and participate in a forum. Participants had basic profiles that were a couple of data points and a link to their site. [...]