Posted by Kevin Huffman
Tech
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
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Wakey wakey, eggs and a culturally accepted meat or vegetable product that can be diminutized to rhyme with “wakey!” Have we got a surprise for you. This weekend we’re giving away an HTC HD2 GSM phone for T-Mobile . If you recall, the HD2 is a glorious Windows Mobile 6.5 phone with lots of great things built-in including a huge, beautiful screen, Wi-Fi, and it even comes with two Transformers movies right on the handset. Seriously good stuff. I haven’t been a fan of Windows Mobile since 2000 and even I like it. How do you win? I need you to comment below with a reason why you, dear sir, deserve this phone. Maybe your current phone is garbage. Maybe you need it for a great uncle who is also a Duke and if you give it to him you will get his hereditary title when he dies. Either way, you need to convince us of this. Extra points go to folks who email contest@crunchgear.com with a picture of themselves with their old, busted phone and a sad, sad face. We’ll pick the best sob story and send them this phone.
Posted by Kevin Huffman
Tech
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
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Do you like Bravo? Sure you do. Well Bravo sure likes you and they want to give you a standard Kindle (Kindle 2, not the DX) to one lucky commenter. How do you win? Well heck, I’m glad you asked. All you have to do is comment or retweet this post to the world. Either/or. It’s a random thing, baby. Why are they giving you a kindle? Here: Bravo achieved major success in the digital sphere last year, and they broke new ground in social media by creating the first ever virtual viewing party, a multiplatform, live viewing experience. It allowed viewers to interact on social media outlets during their favorite show like “Real Housewives of New York City” and “Top Chef.” The success of these viewing parties attracted over 1 million page views, saw double-digit growth in audience engagement, and created sponsorship opportunities for the network. Now, Bravo plans on expanding on its success by creating weekly live viewing parties called the Bravo Talk Bubble. The site, BravoTalkBubble.com , launched on 3/18, and they will start the first viewing party on March 25 during a new episode of “The Real Housewives of New York City”. They will also deploy an innovative, new Twitter integration. To help promote this Talk Bubble, we’re giving away ONE Kindle to your readers. Fair enough, right? Who doesn’t want a Kindle? We’ll pick a winner on Monday at noon New York Time.
Posted by Kevin Huffman
Tech
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
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After running through a set of random numbers, we picked Jeff , who commented “meeee please!” when offered the chance to win an iPad. His incessant, high-pitched needling encouraged us to pick him as much as the results of our random drawing so it just goes to show you that whiners CAN win. In all seriousness, thanks for playing and please congratulate Jeff. It’s great having you guys as readers.
Posted by Kevin Huffman
Tech
Monday, March 15th, 2010
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Good morning, CrunchGear readers. If you tried to win an iPad last week from TechCrunch and didn’t get the goods, here’s a second chance. Today we’re giving away a $599 32GB Apple iPad. What do you have to do to win? Good thing you asked, buckaroo! To win, comment or retweet this article, making sure to include the #crunchgear tag. We’ll pick a winner on Wednesday, March 17 at Noon New York Time. We’ll ship the iPad as soon as we can grab one from the High Street Shops. Thanks for reading and good luck!
Posted by Kevin Huffman
Tech
Friday, March 12th, 2010
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Well, the lawyers have won again. Netflix settled the privacy lawsuit brought about by their last contest out of court, and canceled the next contest. Good thing we have outraged class action lawsuits to protect us! Netflix of course ran a contest to find a better algorithm to recommend movies. Harmless right? Well, in order to help people figure out how to do this, Netflix released a bunch of viewer reviews of movies to interested parties, and that’s where the problem came in. Apparently there was a little too much information in those reviews, which would apparently allow people to compare similarly word reviews to other sites, and thus potentially find out who the author really is. Netflix was promptly sued back in December, and just announced that they’ve settled out of court, and will be discontinuing any further contests. [via The Firewall ]
Posted by Kevin Huffman
Tech
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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By “all” I mean one Vuzix Wrap310 and by “give” I mean “give away in a contest.” What is a Wrap 310 ? It’s a 16:9 widescreen set of high resolution glasses that you can connect right to your iPhone or iPod touch, allowing you to look totally like Geordi LaForge on the plane. How do you win? Just comment. That’s it. We’ll pick a winner on Friday.