Saying âWill Youâ for Prizes, on the Web
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1-800-Flowers.com is holding a âWill You Marry Me?â contest to find the seasonâs most intriguing marriage proposal.
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A technology agency is offering a $100,000 prize in a competition to develop multimedia search technologies.
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BURNLEY, England, Jan. 31  /PRNewswire/ -- The web hosting division of Supanet (http://www.supanet.com/) has announced the launch of a free competition prize draw for all new customers.
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The Internet's chock-full of information and persuasion to help you solidify your vote.  Here's a quick guide.
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The BBC News website scoops a prestigious prize at Hollywood's Online News Association awards .
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By Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 18--The come-ons and ads seem endless:  "Take our survey and win an iPod.""Click here for a free $20 Target gift card.""You're a winner of a dream vacation!" The real reason behind many of these ads is lead generation.
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A new posting from Dynamically Typed - More on rich web UIs - has a few interesting links to share, as well as Harry's search for a XmlHttpRequest method.
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By JAMES COATES, CHICAGO TRIBUNE  Q. I do some fund-raising for a small arts organization, and many corporations are going to online applications, which so far I have been able to sort out.
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What do you get when you come up with a great idea on the web, whether it be something resourceful, something useful, something funny, even something controversial? You come up with ingenious ways to generate buzz for your sites through link baiting and viral marketing campaigns.
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A 'spoof' online game site tests the adage that no publicity is bad publicity
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Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance.
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Tips for improving the efficiency of job searches on the Web.
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Unsigned bands will be invited to compete online as part of a web-based contest to find new music talent.
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Decision: Blogs vs. New York Times. For the last couple of weeks I've been emailing with people from the LongNow Foundation and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times, to determine who won the bet.  Ultimately we asked the foundation to consider all the argument and make the decision. They published their decision today. It's well worth reading because it answers some of the questions raised by the bet, for example, what is a blog, and how does Wikipedia relate to blogging. I don't agree with everything in the decision, but I do like the result -- we won.  The beneficiary of the bet? The World Wide Web Consortium. I chose them as the charity to receive the proceeds if I won the bet because web standards are what make it all work and the W3C is central to standards on the web.
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Terms and Conditions for The Prestige contest.
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Cal Evans and the Zend Developer Zone are hosting a new contest for all of the avid PHP readers out there - a giveaway for free PHP-related books.   There are a lot of good programming contests out there for PHP programmers to enter and win. Most of them require you to write a piece of code or solve a problem. There's nothing wrong with that but programmers are busy people. So I've come up with a contest for busy programmers. Give blog about PHP Abstract and you could win a free book. Not just any book though, these are programming books. (you know the ones, when you go to check out at your favorite book store they charge you by the pound.)   Entering the contest is simple - just blog about your favorite episode of PHP Abstract (DevZone's great podcast series) and get it tracked on Technorati.    Cal will scan the listings each week and pick the one he likes the best. He'll send along the book of his choice and will spring for the postage to send it along. Nice and easy - so check out their podcast series and find an episode you like the best (or just talk about it in general) and get it tracked.   Click here to subscribe to their podcast in your favorite feed reader.
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The brains behind Hot or Not have turned their attention -- and their wallets -- to getting people to join the electorate. Twin $100,000 prizes are up for grabs to those who register to vote. By Dan Brekke.