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Google India: Product Prodigy Competition

imageGoogle India has launched a competition called the Product Prodigy Competition.  The competition is open to Computer Science students of select Engineering Colleges.

The theme of the product should be:

To organize the world’s information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

The objective is to provide an impetus for entrepreneurship in product engineering that will hopefully result in innovations that benefit the consumer in the sphere of internet and mobile services.

The team sizes can range from 2-5 students and they would prefer a faculty of the Computer Science department to be the guide.

The prize money is over Rs. 2,000,000.

You can download the registration form here. Hurry registration is only open till September.

This is a very good opportunity for students to show their talent and count on Google to promote their ideas.

Google has already help international competitions like the Google Summer of Code earlier, which brought students and open source project mentors together on exciting projects.

Vote For Best Web Services

Webware is running a awards program Webware 100 for which they are asking users to vote for their favorite apps. The competition is about best web applications.

More About The Competition

There are 10 categories with 25 nominations in each of them, which makes it a total of 250 entries. Top 10 in each category will be declared winners, a total of 100 winners! One user can cast one vote per category.

The categories are:

Deadlines Etc.

The voting closes 9:00 AM Pacific time on June 11, 2007 and results will be declared on 18th June, 2007.

What Is WebWare?

Webware.com is the site dedicated to helping users learn about new and useful web applications. Webware.com is edited by Rafe Needleman who was Editor of CNET.com in the early days, 1997 to 1998.

Vote Here | About WebWare | Resources for finalists

 

The Technorati Favorites Exchange Experiment

Recently I came across this post on Dosh Dosh about Technorati favorites exchange experiment and since I am a regular user of Technorati, I was intrigued by it and decided to participate in it.

Before going into the details of the contest let me give you some background information.

What is Technorati?

On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors these live communities and the conversations they foster.

What is Technorati rank and why is it important?

A Technorati Ranking relates to the number of sources that point to a particular weblog relative to other weblogs. The more sources referencing a weblog, the higher the Technorati ranking. The Technorati Ranking for a blog is displayed in URL Search results, Blog search results, and is displayed in the account profile for all claimed blogs.

Technorati rank is very popular in the blogosphere and thus it becomes a prestige thing. But besides that lot of advertising tools use this rank as a parameter while evaluating your blog for cost/per link of advertisement.

What is Technorati Favorites?

It is way of organizing your favorite blogs from the blogosphere. It is sort of like a bookmark but provides powerful features like:

  • ability to see/monitor posts from your favorite blogs
  • ability to subscribe to rss feed which gives you posts only from your favorite blogs
  • ability to tag your favorite blogs

The Technorati Top 100 most favorited is a list of blogs according to the number of people who have favorited them on Technorati.

What do I achieve out of this game?

Objective of part I of the experiment is to land into the Technorati Top 100 most favorited blogs. This brings glory, name, recognition and more traffic to your blog.

Objective of part II of the game is to increase the Technorati ranking.

The rules of the game are simple and there are two ways in which you can participate (you can choose both):

1. Exchange favorites on Technorati 

you can do that by clicking here or the image below:

Add to Technorati Favorites

and then leave a comment to this post with the following pieces of information:

  • your Technorati username
  • your blog name

I will verify and add your blog to the list of my favorites blog on Technorati. My Technorati username is vikassah.

You might as well provide a link to directly add your site to my Technorati favorites by providing a URL link this: http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://www.technacular.com replacing technacular.com with your blog. You can get various types of Technorati favorites button from this page.

2. Exchange links on posts on this Technorati favorites experiment

Bloggers who are interested in participating in this game can post a similar post on their blog and provide a link to this post there.

I will monitor the trackback and add a link to your article on this post. Please email me with your post to expedite the process.

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Joost Invites To Share (Update: Winners Announced)

I have three Joost invites to share. I will randomly select three people from the ones who comment to this post and give them the invites.

For those wondering as to what is Joost:

Joost is a new way of watching TV on the Internet. With Joost, you get all the things you love about TV, including a high-quality full-screen picture, hundreds of full-length shows and easy channel-flipping. You get great Internet features too, such as search, chat and instant messaging, built right into the program - so you find shows quickly and talk to your friends while you watch. And with no schedules to worry about, you can watch whatever you want, whenever you like - as often as you want. Joost is completely free, and works with most modern PCs and Intel Mac-based computers with a broadband connection.

Joost is still in beta phase. Check this video on what is Joost?

Just comment on this post and enjoy Joost.

 Update:

The winners are: (stay tuned for your invites)

  • dwolko
  • Madhur Kapoor
  • chris
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Technacular Placed Second in the Firefox Add-ons Review Contest

The Adblock Plus review by Technacular was placed second in the Firefox add-ons review contest held by 7is7.

Here is a list of Firefox add-ons reviews with jury points:

  1. 23 Forum Additive - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  2. 22 Adblock Plus - reviewed by Vikas Sah
  3. 19 ScrapBook - [Spanish] reviewed by Leandro Ardissone
  4. 18 CoLT - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  5. 14 NewsFox - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  6. 12 Secure Login - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  7. 12 DownThemAll! - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  8. 10 FoxFilter - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  9. 10 Google Toolbar 3 - reviewed by Cybernetnews
  10. 9 FavLoc - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  11. 9 Download Statusbar - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  12. 8 IE Tab - reviewed by The_BitMaster
  13. 7 Configuration Mania - reviewed by Mozilla Links
  14. 6 Smart Bookmarks Bar - reviewed by Cybernetnews
  15. 6 Brief - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  16. 5 MeasureIt - reviewed by saratdear
  17. 5 ColorZilla - reviewed by Vikas Sah
  18. 5 Stylish and Tab Effect - reviewed by jdanylko
  19. 5 POW - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  20. 4 Foxy Tunes - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  21. 3 Dragdropupload - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  22. 3 Show Screen Captures - [Spanish] reviewed by firefoXtensions
  23. 2 Woot Watcher - reviewed by Cybernetnews
  24. 1 Splash - reviewed by ffextensionguru
  25. 1 FireMarker - [Spanish] reviewed by Zona Firefox
  26. 1 Snipshot - reviewed by Mozilla Links

In total 168 reviews entered the contest, 112 reviews were in Spanish and 56 in English.

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Contest to Design Alternate Adobe Creative Suite 3 Icons

Quark Vs In Design.com have announced an open competition to redesign the icons for Adobe Creative Suite 3, CSS-version, and other Adobe software products.

Overview

The competition is to design new icons for Adobe products, with the Creative Suite 3 application icons at their core. Entrants should design at least three (3) icon-sized representations of at least Photoshop, Illustrator, and one other CS3 application. The more icons redesigned, the better.

Who can participate?

 Competition is open to virtually anyone, anywhere in the world—even to Adobe employees!  (Detail Eligibility Requirements)

How do I enter the contest?

Download this PDF form, design your icons, and submit them alongside the form and at the same time as the form.

How will the entries be judged?

  • 30% Originality
  • 30% Appropriateness to Subject
  • 30% Coolness Factor
  • 10% Number of Application Icons

What are the prizes?

A cornucopia of software, books, and videos are offered to three winners in a prize chest valued at more than US$7,000. Each entrant’s name (or team name), studio/company, and Website will be listed with the icons she designed, thus promoting to Quark VS InDesign.com’s many readers and icon enthusiasts a global community of designers. (Details Here)

What is the deadline?

The contest started on Jan 29, 2007. Entries will be accepted until Midnight Pacific Time on 23 April 2007

BestBuy The Best Among Tech Stores?

I was interested in which tech store out of the famous three (BestBuy, CompUSA and CircuitCity) attracted more online customers and used Alexa to figure that out:

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From the graph it is quite certain that BestBuy.com leads the race, followed by CompUSA.com and then CircuitCity.com. Microcenter.com and Radioshack.com were thrown in to the mix but they were no competition to the big three.

The big spike you see around November, 2006 is the Thanksgiving traffic!

Zune Photo Contest

ZuneInsider is running a photo contest titled:  Zune Outdoor Photo Contest.

How does the contest work?

Get a picture of your Zune outside. It can be somewhere in nature, at a concert, near a landmark. Go somewhere cool, do something funny, whatever you think will make your picture stand out. Once you have your photo, post it on the web, and drop a comment in this post.

What is the deadline?

Wednesday, 28th of February, 2007

What is the prize?

Zune party attendee booklets. They come with a collection of Zune posters, two CDs, two records (vinyl, for your turntable) and a few posters of Zune art. Overall, a very cool package.

The contest should be open to public voting. See the site for details.

Source: Zune Outdoor Photo Contest

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