Along with being at Magnet Interactive last week, Spiral16 was also represented at BIG Omaha.

The event was headlined by Gary Vaynerchuk from Wine Library TV. If you’ve never seen Gary V. speak in person, I highly recommend it.

We got a chance to interview him one-on-one about ROI. That video blog is coming later today, unless it takes me longer than that to bleep about the four-letter words. *fingers crossed*

Here are some of our pictures from the trip. We also have them posted on Flickr. Also I’ve embedded a slideshow from the BIG Omaha folks themselves.

If you were there and took some photos, share the links in the comments! We want to see them all!

Shawna has snapped a few pictures for us from Austin. Follow her adventures on Twitter by adding @spiral16!

This is the bar where PBS has set up shop. Don’t miss their final day of the interactive studio today!

Inside the pub, Epic Fu’s Zadi Diaz has been interviewing guests since Saturday.

And Spiral16 sponsored the Bacon-Flavored Interactive After Party on Sunday night. There was a lot of tasty, crispy bacon to be had… Jeff made sure of that.

We’ve got a team in the San Francisco area for the rest of the week! If you’d like to set up a meeting, contact me at whitney.mathews@spiral16.com and I will forward the message along.

Or e-mail engage@spiral16.com.

Around 2:30 p.m. word spread of @SuperBowl’s Twitter page. When I started following with @Spiral16, there were about 500 followers. Then @Mashable alerted people to the account and its popularity skyrocketed.

The power of Twitter as an information source is incredible. What I like about this @SuperBowl effort is the Tweets give us real-time, behind-the-scenes experiences from the biggest sporting event in America. They aren’t just directing fans to a Web page or spitting info from a blog RSS.

Who wouldn’t want to be on a plane with Jim Rome or know when the Cardinals are headed to their first practice?!

Here’s a time line of screenshots of their follow count. It grew by over 300 in just over an hour:

P.S. As I posted this blog, the follow count had grown to over 1,100.

It’s after Thanksgiving, which means it’s officially OK to discuss the “holiday season.”

Ian made us some cool S16 holiday logos. I am using the black one as my desktop image. Thought I’d share the goodies!