Final notes from Gnomedex

Here’s my Gnomedex photo album on Flickr.

By most accounts, this year’s Gnomedex didn’t reach the high bar set at last year’s conference. (But then, how could it?) Too many Insufferable Enormous Egos sucking the air out of the 320-seat conference hall. Brian Dear deconstructs the weekend here and here.

Still, the hallway networking was fab, as always. Good to catch up with Halley Suitt, Steve Rubel, Renee Blodgett, Chris Messina, Buzz Bruggeman, Robert Scoble, Ted Rheingold, Susan Mernit and Jon Husband, among others.

Here are a few final notes:

• The Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA) inked a big deal Thursday with the Harry Fox Agency. (Details in this PDF, unfortunately.) And IODA’s Promonet, featuring music available to podcasters from indie artists, just got an overhaul.

• Check out Brian Dear’s Eventful. They’re closing in on a million event listings, I believe. Coolest feature: viral campaigns designed to bring a favorite artist to town and “force” events to happen. “To hell with the labels,” Brian declared. “It’s fans and bands working together.”

• Farecast is a cool new search engine for scouting out the lowest price for flights – not just by flight but also showing the lowest fares to a given city on a given day, week or month.

• Oddest moment: When Dave W. called this very funny Firefox Flicks spot “inappropriate” to show. The crowd loved the spot.

• The CEO of Pixsy showed off the new site, which aggregates thousands of photo and video thumbnails on the Web and organize it all, with an Ajax-like interface, into different categories.

• 30boxes lets you collaborate online with friends, colleagues or co-workers to create a seamless calendar.

• WineCamp? Now there’s a grassroots conference I could really get into.

More Gnomedex coverage here, here and here. Others’ Flickr photos here.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.